Michelle Luciano

Reader

Psychology
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Tel: 0131 650 3063
Email: michelle.luciano@ed.ac.uk

Street: Room S26, Psychology Building
City: 7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9JZ

I am available Mon-Thurs, but please email me to schedule a specific time.

Biography

Background

I use twin and family modelling to investigate the relative influence of genes and environment on behavior, genome-wide association techniques for gene discovery, plus other analyses to explore the effects of rare and structural genetic variants, gene methylation and biological pathways. I am also interested in the interaction between measured environmental variables with genes.

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

Behavioural Genetics Psychology Honours option course.

Postgraduate teaching

Individual Differences in Mental Health component on the MSc in Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion) Programme.

Office hours:

I am flexible with meetings, so please just drop me an email, knock on my door or phone to organise a time.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

Please contact me to discuss any topics related to my research interests.

I have a funded project on air pollution and dementia available: https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/precision-medicine/project-opportunities/21-22-projects/air-pollution-and-dementia-exploring-genetic-cardi

and a funded project on predicting ageing outcomes by integrating social and genetic information: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/improving-prediction-of-ageing-outcomes-by-integrating-social-environmental-and-genetic-information/?p125945

A specific project on the genetics of reading and language is available and would involve multivariate twin modelling of such data, alongside molecular genetic analysis, including epigenetic investigations.