Students

Marcus Alvarez

Research interests include following up lipid GWAS signals using high-throughput data sets, primarily RNA sequencing, to identify specific variants, genes, and mechanisms involved in metabolic disease, primarily cardiovascular disease and dyslipidemia.

Toni Boltz

Research interests include studying the genetics of complex diseases like psychiatric illness through the use of computational genetics methods.

Leroy Bondhus

Research interests include understanding the logic that organizes the genome and orchestrates its function across diverse contexts.

James Boocock

Research interests include new methods for performing functional annotation of association studies, uncovering regions under natural selection in human populations, and the role that structural variation plays in complex traits.

Alex Chubick

Research interests include neurogenetics and studying genetic mutations that are related to neurodegenerative diseases.

Yonatan Cooper

Research interests include functional characterization of genomic elements using massively parallel library assays.

Arun Durvasula

Research interests include using novel techniques and data to study the forces that produce and maintain genetic variation.

Chantle Edillor

Research interests include the epigenetics of complex disease, systems genetics, and personal genomics. My out-of-lab interests are art+science, social media, and being a low-key foodie.

Alejandro Espinoza

Research interests include integrating genomic information for disease discovery and personalized medicine.

Colin Farrell

Research interests include integrating genomic information for disease discovery and personalized medicine.

Kristina Garske

Research interests include the way the human genome interacts with itself and with one's environment.

Jennifer Grundman

Kevyn Hart

Eric Heinrichs

Research interests include developing models of Alzheimer’s disease using human brain organoids and investigating neurodevelopmental genetics using single cell sequencing techniques.

Serina Huang

Research interests include studying the role of host factors in viral infection and the effect of positive selection on antiviral genes.

Samantha Jensen

Research interests include using bioinformatic techniques to investigate the biological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases, including depression, anxiety, and Alzheimer's disease.

Minsoo Kim

Research interests include investigating the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders through functional genomics type of analysis.

Misty Knight

Katie Leap

Research interests include functional consequences of somatic mutations and epigenetic variants and developing cell culture models of disease, specifically in endometriosis. When not in lab, I'm in lab.

Tony Lee

Research interests include identifying biological mechanisms for cardiometabolic disorders by integrating DNA variant and single-cell omics data of metabolic tissues with cardiometabolic traits.

Jiajin Li

Research interests include mining genetic information from sequencing data and developing new methods for analysis.

Isabella Lin

Research interests include evaluating the functional mechanisms underlying the intersection between complex traits and rare diseases via systematically validating variants of interest in vitro.

Aileen Nava

Shirley Nieves-Rodriguez

Research interests include the development of diagnostic tools and therapies for genetic diseases, and their translation to the clinical setting.

Maria Palafox

Research interests include developing a pipeline that serves as a direct path between characterizing missense variants in a given exome and targeted therapeutic drug development.

Christopher Robles

Research interests include bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing applications, and technology development. Outside of lab I enjoy rock climbing, cycling, and brewing beer.

Gregory Rosenberg

Research interests include the genetic and molecular basis of complex traits and diseases, as well normal human biological function and applying this understanding to causal models and therapeutic approaches.

Katherine Sheu

Research interests include computational modeling of epigenome dynamics in cancer and immune cell signaling.

Lisa Truong

Research interests include studying the genetics that contribute to proper chromosome segregation during meiosis. In particular, I am interested in how improper segregation and aneuploidies can affect embryonic development and lead to genetic disease like Down syndrome.

Alexis Weber

Research interests include the role of epigenomics in neurodevelopment and Down syndrome.

Ye Leila Yang

Nicole Zeltser

Joshua Zhang

Research interests include studying the molecular and genetic mechanisms of human aging, and translational aging research.