Language and AI Colloquium II: 'Identification of clinical disease trajectories in neurodegenerative disorders with natural language processing' by Inge Holtman

This initiative aims at bringing together all those interested or working on the intersections of natural language and Artificial Intelligence.

The Language and AI colloquia will take place from October 2024 to May 2025. Each colloquium will take place on Friday, it will start at 14:00 and will end at 15:00. For the interested people, it would be possible to arrange 1-on-1 meetings with the speakers.

Inge Holtman

The speaker for the second Language and AI Colloquium is Inge Holtman from UMCG Groningen with: 'Identification of clinical disease trajectories in neurodegenerative disorders with natural language processing'.

During her doctoral studies (2011 – 2016, University of Groningen), she specialised in bioinformatics and NGS-data analysis approaches to study the role of microglia in brain development, aging and disease, across different species at the lab of Dr. Erik Boddeke and Dr. Bart Eggen. Additionally, she participated in a large number of international collaborations that successfully resulted in publications in peer reviewed scientific journals. Her PhD was awarded cum laude.

In 2020, Dr. Holtman successfully pursued a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship that enabled her to become a junior group leader in the section of Molecular Neurobiology. Here she continues to study the effect of natural genetic variation on susceptibility to brain diseases. In collaboration with the Netherlands Brain Bank, she established the Netherlands Neurogenomics Database, which is supported by the ‘Stichting Vrienden van het Herseninstituut’. The aim of this project is to integrate the extensive clinical and neuropathological data of the NHB, with a multi-omics map in order to study the effects of genetic variation on brain disease using state-of-the-art computational and machine learning  approaches.

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