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Research laboratory of Nadav Ahituv, PhD

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Photo	Who	Research interests
	Nadav Ahituv, PhD Professor [email protected]	Discovering gene regulatory elements in the human genome and linking mutations within them to specific phenotypes.
	Walter Eckalbar Assistant Adjunct Professor [email protected]	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.
	Fumitaka Inoue Associate Specialist [email protected]	Understanding the mode of action of gene regulatory elements that are involved in brain development and disease.
	Anat Kreimer Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] Joint with Nir Yosef, UCB	Modeling of key regulatory components that drive the response of mammalian cells to stimulation, and the interactions between them using high throughput genomic data.
	Ofer Yizhar Barnea Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Studying the coding and non-coding roles of short DNA sequences that were lost during evolution or the onset of a cancerous process.
	Navneet Matharu Assistant Researcher [email protected]	Understanding the complex nature of regulatory elements and their functional mechanisms for controlling gene expression during development and evolution.
	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.
	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.
	Ilias Georgakopoulos Soares Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Studying gene regulation with bioinformatic approaches and the associated implications in disease development.
	Jamal Ghoumid Visiting Scholar [email protected]	Unraveling gene network regulated by CDK8-module of the mediator complex, throughout neuronal development. Variations in genes coding CDK8-module proteins (CDK8, MED12, MED12L, MED13, and MED13L) have been identified in patients suffering from intellectual disability and autistic spectrum disorders. Better understanding the involvement of this module in gene regulation is the first step before exploring possibilities of treatments targeting gene regulatory elements.
	Serena Tamura Graduate Student [email protected]	Exploring novel treatments for neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders by targeting gene regulatory elements with CRISPR based gene editing tools.
	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.
	Gracie Gordon Graduate Student [email protected]	Understanding how non-coding variation influences gene expression in different cellular environments and how these changes contribute to disease.
	Lana Harshman Graduate Student [email protected]	Exploring how regulatory elements and chromosomal rearrangements have influenced evolution of mammals and understanding how these changes could have contributed to human specific traits.
	Wei Gordon Graduate Student [email protected]	Investigating the genetic changes involved in the evolution of dietary specializations
	Xujia Zhou Graduate Student [email protected]	Understanding how transporters and drug-related enzymes change through evolution and how these changes contribute to diseases.
	Ajuni Sohota Laboratory Manager [email protected]	Exploring functional genomics through a project affiliated with Encode as well as administrative work as the Lab Manager.

Staff

Photo	Who	About
	Peter Lu Administrative Analyst [email protected]

Former lab members

Photo	Who	Now at
	Aaron Hardin Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Clinical Genomics Bioinformatician at Guardant Health
	Nadja Makki Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Assistant Professor at University of Florida
	Hane Ryu Graduate Student [email protected]	Product Manager Digital Health at Sema4
	Yao Wang Graduate Student [email protected]	Graduate Student at Tsinghua University
	Chenling Xiong Visiting Scholar [email protected]	Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Francisco
	Betty Booker Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Applications Research Scientist, Research and Development at Advanced Cell Diagnostics
	Karl Murphy Laboratory Manager [email protected]	Animal Care Facility Manager at San Francisco State University
	Ramon Birnbaum, PhD [email protected]	Junior faculty member at the Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
	Stacy Jones Subject Recruiter [email protected]	Attending weddings in far off places.
	Mee J. Kim, PhD [email protected] Completed Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics graduate program	Clinical Scientist at CymaBay Therapeutics
	Saziya Latif [email protected]	Publications Assistant at PLOS ONE
	Marcelo Rizzatti Luizon Specialist [email protected]	Investigating gene regulatory elements and pharmacogenomics
	Nir Oksenberg PhD student, Biomedical Sciences program (BMS)	Science Communicator at Delta Stewardship Council
	Robin P. Smith, PhD [email protected]	Ancestry Product Lead at 23andMe
	Julia VanderMeer, PhD Completed PhD from UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program	Development Scientist at Invitae