Sarah Marzi

About

Senior Lecturer and Group Leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute at King's College London working on epigenetic regulation in neurodegenerative diseases. Degrees in mathematics and psychology from the University of Freiburg; PhD in epigenetics from King's College London

Experience

• Senior Lecturer and UK DRI Group Leader at King's College London
  Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Imperial College London (Full-time · 6 yrs 8 mos)
  • Honorary Senior Lecturer
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    My group is interested in epigenetic regulation in neurodegenerative diseases, focussing primarily on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. We combine wet-lab and computational genome-wide approaches to understand regulatory consequences of genetic and environmental risk factors.

  • Edmond and Lily Safra Research Fellow
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary University of London
  Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  Gene-environment interactions in humans and mice; genetic and epigenetic characterisation of ribosomal DNA; nanopore sequencing; epigenetic signatures of paternal obesity

• Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London
  Mar 2017 - Sep 2017 · 7 mos

  Role of C-reactive protein and DNA methylation in the context of early-life victimisation

• Visiting Researcher at Diagenode
  Mar 2015 - Apr 2015 · 2 mos

  ChIP-seq protocol optimisation (for post mortem brain); chromatin prep