Education & Training
- PhD: University of Granada, Spain, 2001
- MS: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997
- BS: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992
Major Awards
- Klerman Award in Clinical Psychiatry Research (NARSAD) for the Schizophrenia Risk Function (Dr. de Erausquin, Dr. I. Zwir, et al), 2008
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute award for five and ten years of continuous and successful research in Microbiology, 2007, 2011
- Best PhD Thesis, University of Granada, 2001
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Datamining
Computational Biology
BD2K
Genetics
Phenomics
Schizophrenia
Personality
Mental Disorders
Key Publications
- Arnedo J, Svrakic DM, Del Val C, Romero-Zaliz R, Hernández-Cuervo H, Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia Consortium, Fanous AH, Pato MT, Pato CN, de Erausquin GA, Cloninger CR, Zwir I (2015 Feb 1). Uncovering the hidden risk architecture of the schizophrenias: confirmation in three independent genome-wide association studies. Am J Psychiatry. 172(2): 139-53.
Read publication »Uncovering the hidden risk architecture of the schizophrenias: confirmation in three independent genome-wide association studies. - Arnedo J, Mamah D, Baranger DA, Harms MP, Barch DM, Svrakic DM, de Erausquin GA, Cloninger CR, Zwir I (2015 Jul 4). Decomposition of brain diffusion imaging data uncovers latent schizophrenias with distinct patterns of white matter anisotropy. Neuroimage. 12043-54.
Read publication »Decomposition of brain diffusion imaging data uncovers latent schizophrenias with distinct patterns of white matter anisotropy. - Zwir I, Shin D, Kato A, Nishino K, Latifi T, Solomon F, Hare JM, Huang H, Groisman EA (2005 Feb 22). Dissecting the PhoP regulatory network of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(8): 2862-7.
Read publication »Dissecting the PhoP regulatory network of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. - Arnedo J, del Val C, de Erausquin GA, Romero-Zaliz R, Svrakic D, Cloninger CR, Zwir I (2013 Jul). PGMRA: a web server for (phenotype x genotype) many-to-many relation analysis in GWAS. Nucleic Acids Res. 41(Web Server issue): W142-9.
Read publication »PGMRA: a web server for (phenotype x genotype) many-to-many relation analysis in GWAS. - Zwir I, Yeo WS, Shin D, Latifi T, Huang H, Groisman EA (2014 Oct 7). Bacterial nucleoid-associated protein uncouples transcription levels from transcription timing. MBio. 5(5): e01485-14.
Read publication »Bacterial nucleoid-associated protein uncouples transcription levels from transcription timing. - Svrakic DM, Zorumski CF, Svrakic NM, Zwir I, Cloninger CR (2013 Mar). Risk architecture of schizophrenia: the role of epigenetics. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 26(2): 188-95.
Read publication »Risk architecture of schizophrenia: the role of epigenetics.