PARTICIPATING FACULTY
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Andrew Sharo (Shapiro Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Paleogenomics Lab
Research Areas: Conservation Genetics; De-extinction Genomics; Historic DNA
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Olena Morozova Vaske
Assistant Professor, MCD Biology: Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics
Research Areas: Genomics of pediatric cancers and rare diseases
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Josh Stuart
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering; Genomics Institute Director of Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics
Research Areas: Systems biology, cancer genomics
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Michael Stone
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Areas: molecular mechanisms of telomere length control using single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and micro-manipulation techniques, such as magnetic trapping.
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Benedict Paten
Associate Research Scientist, Director of Comparative Genomics and the Computational Genomics Laboratory (CGL)
Research Areas: Computational genomics
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Vanessa Jonsson
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: Immune system evolution in the context of human disease, create mathematical models and computational methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic and immunological data
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Sofie Salama
Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Faculty Director of Diversity at the UCSC Genomics Institute, Executive Committee at the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells
Research Areas: Functional analysis of recently evolved human genome sequences in early and cerebral cortex development using pluripotent stem cell models, molecular biology, cell biology, stem cells, genomics, neurobiology, development, cancer
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Susan Carpenter
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms that control the innate immune responses, understanding role of long noncoding RNA in controlling inflammatory gene programs in macrophages and dendritic cells
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Ali Shariati
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: cell division and differentiation in stem cells
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John Carlos Garza
Adjunct Professor, Physical & Biological Sciences
Research Areas: genetic monitoring and evaluation techniques to provide scientifically-based support for salmonid management and recovery efforts in California, population genetics, ecology, evolution, conservation, marine biology
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Russell Corbett-Detig
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: evolutionary genomics, evolutionary biology, statistics, computer science, tool development and applications for SARS-CoV-2 phylogenomics
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Paleogenomics Lab
Research Areas: Conservation Genetics; De-extinction Genomics; Historic DNA
Website
Olena Morozova Vaske
Assistant Professor, MCD Biology: Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics
Research Areas: Genomics of pediatric cancers and rare diseases
Website
Josh Stuart
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering; Genomics Institute Director of Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics
Research Areas: Systems biology, cancer genomics
Website
Michael Stone
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Areas: molecular mechanisms of telomere length control using single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and micro-manipulation techniques, such as magnetic trapping.
Website
Benedict Paten
Associate Research Scientist, Director of Comparative Genomics and the Computational Genomics Laboratory (CGL)
Research Areas: Computational genomics
Website
Vanessa Jonsson
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: Immune system evolution in the context of human disease, create mathematical models and computational methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic and immunological data
Website
Sofie Salama
Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Faculty Director of Diversity at the UCSC Genomics Institute, Executive Committee at the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells
Research Areas: Functional analysis of recently evolved human genome sequences in early and cerebral cortex development using pluripotent stem cell models, molecular biology, cell biology, stem cells, genomics, neurobiology, development, cancer
Website
Susan Carpenter
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms that control the innate immune responses, understanding role of long noncoding RNA in controlling inflammatory gene programs in macrophages and dendritic cells
Website
Ali Shariati
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: cell division and differentiation in stem cells
Website
John Carlos Garza
Adjunct Professor, Physical & Biological Sciences
Research Areas: genetic monitoring and evaluation techniques to provide scientifically-based support for salmonid management and recovery efforts in California, population genetics, ecology, evolution, conservation, marine biology
Website
Russell Corbett-Detig
Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: evolutionary genomics, evolutionary biology, statistics, computer science, tool development and applications for SARS-CoV-2 phylogenomics
Website