معرفی
Esteban Tato-Barcia is a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow at King's College London, based in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. He contributes to the BioResource theme and King’s Genomics facility with expertise in laboratory genomics and biobank operations.
His research spans genomics, biobanking, and psychiatric genetics, featuring proficiency in NGS library preparation, Illumina-based high-throughput genotyping for GWAS/EWAS, real-time PCR, and DNA/RNA extraction. Current work focuses on Nanopore long-read sequencing for eating disorders to unravel genomic complexity and identify biomarkers, building on his coordination of blood sample processing across 13 sites for the UKRI Urgent Public Health COVID-CNS study.
His 2023 Nature Communications publication on tobacco/alcohol genetics via multi-ancestry GWAS exemplifies his integration of large-scale genomic analysis with substance use disorder research, highlighting trends in psychiatric genomics and multi-ancestry study design.
Scientific recognition includes:
- NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
He provides technical leadership in project coordination, SOP development, and LIMS implementation while managing biobank inventory for diverse samples (blood, saliva, CSF). As part of King’s Genomics, he supports internal/external collaborators through biobanking services and contributes to the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre’s mission in mental health genomics.
