People
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Nadav Ahituv, PhD |
Discovering gene regulatory elements in the human genome and linking mutations within them to specific phenotypes. |
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Walter Eckalbar |
Identifying how changes in the genomic regulatory code can lead to developmental diseases such as limb malformations and scoliosis, using a combination of molecular genetic approaches and bioinformatics. |
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Fumitaka Inoue |
Understanding the mode of action of gene regulatory elements that are involved in brain development and disease. |
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Anat Kreimer |
Modeling of key regulatory components that drive the response of mammalian cells to stimulation, and the interactions between them using high throughput genomic data. |
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Ofer Yizhar Barnea |
Studying the coding and non-coding roles of short DNA sequences that were lost during evolution or the onset of a cancerous process. |
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Navneet Matharu |
Understanding the complex nature of regulatory elements and their functional mechanisms for controlling gene expression during development and evolution. |
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JingJing Zhao Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] |
Computational work on the ENCODE project. Select candidate sequences for functional analyses and carry out computational analyses of results from our massively parallel reporter assays and other genomic assays. | |
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Aki Ushiki Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] |
Understanding the genetic basis for limb morphological diversity and congenital malformations through in vivo functional dissection of cis-regulatory elements. |
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Serena Tamura |
Exploring novel treatments for neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders by targeting gene regulatory elements with CRISPR based gene editing tools. | |
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Ryan Ziffra Graduate Student [email protected] |
Elucidating the epigenetic and gene regulatory programs underlying human neurodevelopment and how their dysfunction may lead to neurodevelopmental disorders. | |
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Ajuni Sohota |
Exploring functional genomics through a project affiliated with Encode as well as administrative work as the Lab Manager |
Staff
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Peter Lu Administrative Analyst [email protected] |
Former lab members
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Aaron Hardin Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] |
Clinical Genomics Bioinformatican at Guardant Health |
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Nadja Makki |
Assistant Professor at University of Florida |
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Hane Ryu |
Program Manager and Platform Development Scientist at Invitae |
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Yao Wang Graduate Student [email protected] |
Graduate student at Tsinghua University |
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Chenling Xiong Visiting Scholar [email protected] |
Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Francisco |
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Betty Booker Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] |
Applications Research Scientist, Research and Development at Advanced Cell Diagnostics |
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Karl Murphy Laboratory Manager [email protected] |
Animal Care Facility Manager at San Francisco State University |
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Junior faculty member at the Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
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Stacy Jones Subject Recruiter [email protected] |
Attending weddings in far off places. |
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Mee J. Kim, PhD Completed Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics graduate program |
Postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in the Medina and Krauss Labs |
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Publications assistant at PLOS ONE |
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Marcelo Rizzatti Luizon Specialist [email protected] |
Investigating gene regulatory elements and pharmacogenomics |
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Nir Oksenberg |
Postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis |
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Health content scientist at 23andMe |
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Julia VanderMeer, PhD |
Senior Science Instructional Designer, UCSF School of Medicine |