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Research laboratory of Nadav Ahituv, PhD

People

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.
	Aaron Hardin Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Understanding the effects of variation in regulatory DNA and the evolution of phenotypic diversity; rewiring of regulatory networks and creation of novel structures.
	Fumitaka Inoue Postdoctoral Fellow [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.
	Nadja Makki Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected]	Exploring how DNA regulatory elements influence human neuro-development and disease by applying massively parallel reporter assays, genetic engineering, and comparative genomics.
	Navneet Matharu Postdoctoral Fellow [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.
	Hane Ryu Graduate student [email protected]	Identifying lineage-specific mutations in regulatory elements that underlie uniquely human biology; investigating drug-dependent enrichment of enhancers across cell types
	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
	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	Postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in the Medina and Krauss Labs
	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)	Postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis
	Robin P. Smith, PhD [email protected]	Health content scientist at 23andMe
	Julia VanderMeer, PhD Completed PhD from UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program	Senior Science Instructional Designer, UCSF School of Medicine

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