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Ruben Abagyan
Professor, School of PharmacyBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Structure-based Drug Discovery, Cheminformatics, Drug Repurposing, Computational Pharmacology, Target/pathway Discovery

Ludmil Alexandrov
Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineAssistant Professor, Bioengineering
BISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
Research Focus: Using large-scale omics data to study mutational processes causing human cancer, identify potential cancer prevention strategies, and develop novel approaches for targeted cancer treatment.

Andrew Allen
Associate Professor, Integrative Oceanography DivisionBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Ecological, comparative, and functional genomics of marine phytoplankton, Systems biology of microalgae, Genome evolution and evolutionary origins of metabolic function in marine microbes, Transcriptional regulatory networks, Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, Microbes, Evolution

Ferhat Ay
Assistant Adjunct Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Epigenetics, genomics, chromatin structure, 3D/4D genome/nucleome, statistical methods for analysis of Hi-C and HiChIP data, gene regulation in immune cells, cancer genomics

Vineet Bafna
Professor, Computer Science and EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
Research Focus: Bioinformatics Algorithms, Proteomics, Population Genetics

Nuno Bandeira
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Bioinformatics and computational mass spectrometry

Vikas Bansal
Assistant Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
Research Focus: Computational tools for variant calling, haplotyping and analysis of rare variants in disease association studies

Christopher Benner
Assistant Professor in Residence, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease

Steve Briggs
Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
Research Focus: Stem Cell Identity

Hannah Carter
Assistant Professor, Division of Medical GeneticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Genomics and systems biology for precision cancer medicine, variant interpretation, network analysis, immunogenomics

Lukas Chavez
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Chromatin and Gene Regulation in Childhood Cancers

Chi-Hua Chen
Associate Professor, RadiologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Neuroimaging genetics, neuropsychiatric disorders

Kit Curtius
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Mathematical models of cancer evolution, optimization of cancer screening and personalized surveillance, epigenetic aging, translational risk prediction tools

Pieter Dorrestein
Assistant Professor, School of PharmacyBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Biosynthesis

Joseph Ecker
Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Molecular biology and genetics of plants

Robert El-Kareh
Associate Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Decision Support Systems
Research Focus: Clinical informatics, clinical decision support, diagnostic safety, quality improvement, patient safety

Ronald M. Evans
Professor and Director, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: Role of hormones, both in their normal activities and in disease.

Emma Farley
Assistant Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: High-throughput functional assays in developing embryos to decipher how genomes instruct development

Kelly Frazer
Professor, PediatricsDirector, Institute for Genomic Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Using iPSCs for genetic analyses, GWAS, QTL analyses, bioinformatic approaches to understanding human disease, single-cell analyses

Terry Gaasterland
Professor and Director of Scripps Genome Center, Marine Biology Research DivisionGraduate Program Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
BISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: Computational Analysis of Human, Novel, and Microbial Genomes

Rodney Gabriel
Assistant Clinical Professor, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
Research Focus: Perioperative outcomes, pharmacogenomics, machine learning, predictive modeling, regional anesthesia, acute pain.

Kyle Gaulton
Assistant Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Statistical genetics, epigenomics, chromatin, gene regulatory networks, diabetes

Michael Gilson
Professor, School of PharmacyBISB Research Area(s):
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Computer-aided drug discovery

Christopher Glass
Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Enhancer Selection and Functions, Macrophage Subtypes, Genetic Variation, Enhancer Transcription

Joseph Gleeson
Professor, Neurosciences (School of Medicine)Director of Neurogenetics, Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Autism, Whole genome sequencing, Epigenome, Single cell sequencing, Gene-environment interactions, Somatic mosaicism, Systems biology, Protein interactions

Alon Goren
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Dynamics of epigenomic mechanisms during development and along the cell cycle

Melissa Gymrek
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and EngineeringAssistant Professor, School of Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
Research Focus: Contribution of complex genetic variation to human phenotypes

Nan Hao
Assistant Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Dynamic regulation of signaling and transcriptional networks in single cells

Olivier Harismendy
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: My laboratory develops genome-wide assays and analysis for personalized cancer care. Particular focus includes genetics of cancer susceptibility and drug response, secure computing and data sharing.

Jeff Hasty
Associate Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Biodynamics

Sven Heinz
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: High-throughput sequencing assay development, Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Hematology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Mouse Genetics, Server Hardware.

Michael Hogarth
Assoc Physician Dipl, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Data Models and Knowledge Representation
- Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Research Focus: Development of next generation public health information systems, terminology/ontology infrastructure in biomedical informatics, and developing systems that support clinical research at the point of care.

Michael Holst
Professor, MathematicsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
Research Focus: Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computation, Protein Electrostatics

Vivian Hook
Professor, School of PharmacyBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
Research Focus: Peptide Neurotransmitters, Protease Mechanisms

Albert Hsiao
Associate Professor in Residence, RadiologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cardiovascular, COVID-19, x-ray, CT, MRI, Point-of-care Ultrasound

Wendy Huang
Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: To assess the contributions of RNA-binding proteins and their associated non-coding RNAs to host immune homeostasis and autoimmune pathologies.

Xiaohua Huang
Assistant Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: Genomics, Nanostructure Fabrication

Terence Hwa
Professor, PhysicsProfessor, Biological Sciences
BISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Genetic and biomolecular circuits, Metabolism and growth physiology, Self-organization and pattern formation in biofilm and development

Lilia Iakoucheva
Associate Professor, PsychiatryBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Autism, genetics, gene expression, protein interactions, systems biology, networks, psychiatric diseases, whole genome sequencing

Trey Ideker
Professor, Division of Medical GeneticsGraduate Program Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
BISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Biological Networks, Cellular Modeling, Cancer Genomics, Epigenetic Aging

Mohit Jain
Associate Professor, PharmacologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus:
Human Biology, Metabolic Biochemistry, Integrative Biology, Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics

Suckjoon Jun
Assistant Professor, PhysicsAssistant Professor, Biological Sciences
BISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Biophysics. Use physics and engineering to explain why biological systems are the way they are.

Amy Kiger
Assistant Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Genomics, Cellular Morphogenesis, RNAi, Image Analysis of Microscopy Data

Rob Knight
Professor, PediatricsAffiliate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering
BISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
Research Focus: Human microbiome, microbial community ecology, multi-omics analyses

Richard Kolodner
Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Gene recombination

Jejo Koola
Assistant Clinical Professor, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Research Focus: Practicing internist in the field of hospital medicine and clinical informatics. Research focus is on using informatics tools (including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and information visualization) to improve the care of multi-morbid hospital patients.

Tsung-Ting Kuo
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics
Research Focus:
Blockchain Technologies, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Louise Laurent
Associate Professor, Reproductive MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Gene Interaction Networks, Biomarker Discovery, Pluripotency, Embryonic Development, Placental Dysfunction, Preeclampsia, Pregnancy complications

Julie Law
Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Chromatin modifications, epigenetics, genomics, gene regulation

Nathan E. Lewis
Associate Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Systems biology approaches for integration of disparate data types to study diseases involving metabolism, glycobiology, and to guide cell engineering for drug development.

Amit Majithia
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Insulin resistance, functional genomics, pharmacogenetics, cardiometabolic disease, diabetes

Prashant Mali
Assistant Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: The Mali laboratory is working in the fields of synthetic biology and regenerative medicine, with a long-term focus on developing tools for enabling gene and cell based human therapeutics.

Andrew McCammon
Professor, Chemistry and BiochemistryBISB Research Area(s):
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Enzymes and Ligand Binding

Andrew McCulloch
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Mathematical Modeling of Heart Cells and Tissue

Graham McVicker
Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: Human genetic variation, chromatin and gene regulation in immune cells

Jill Mesirov
Professor, School of MedicineAssociate Vice Chancellor, Computational Health Sciences,
Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics
BISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Algorithms and analytic methodologies for pattern recognition and discovery with applications to cancer genomics, to better diagnose, stratify, and treat patients. Development of biologist-friendly biomedical software tools.

Christian Metallo
Assistant Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Metabolism, system biology, mass spectrometry, flux analysis, cancer, stem cell biology

Siavash Mirarab
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
Research Focus: Computational biology, large scale phylogenetics, estimation of species trees from gene trees (phylogenomics), large scale multiple sequence alignment, and metagenomic analysis using phylogenetic placement.

Niema Moshiri
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science and EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Computational HIV epidemiology, phylogenetics, models of sequence and tree evolution, Massive Adaptive Interactive Text (MAIT) development

Eran Mukamel
Assistant Professor, Cognitive ScienceBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Computational neuroscience, brain cell differentiation and development, computational analysis of brain-network dynamics

Saket Navlakha
Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Algorithms in nature, biological networks and systems biology, information processing and computation in biological systems

Shamim Nemati
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Decision Support Systems
Research Focus: Signal Processing, Dynamical Systems, Multivariate Time Series, Point Process, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Video Processing, and Natural Language Processing

Lucila Ohno-Machado
Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics
Research Focus: Biomedical Informatics, predictive modeling, biomedical data analytics

Abraham Palmer
Professor, PsychiatryBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Quantitative genetic studies of behavior using fish, mice, rats and humans. Applying statistical genetics and genomics approaches to understanding behavior.

Bernhard Palsson
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Development of methods to analyze metabolic dynamics (flux-balance analysis and modal analysis) and the formulation of complete models of selected cells (the red blood cell, E. coli, CHO cells, and several human pathogens).

Pavel Pevzner
Professor and Ronald R Taylor Chair, Computer Science and EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
Research Focus: Computational Molecular Biology

Anjana Rao
Adjunct Professor, PharmacologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Understanding how signalling pathways control gene expression, using T cells and other cells of the immune system as models

Bing Ren
Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Gene Regulatory Networks

Scott Rifkin
Assistant Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Evolutionary Biology-Patterns of Gene Expression

Michael Rosenfeld
Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Mammalian Neurosystem Development

Debashis Sahoo
Assistant Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Systems Biology of normal and cancer tissues, Boolean analysis of biological systems, Computational models of stem cell differentiation, Sequencing data analysis

Nicholas Schork
Professor, Scripps Research InstituteBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- TBD
Research Focus: Developing mathematical, statistical, and computational models and tools to study the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases

Julian Schroeder
Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Climate change resistance and drought resistance and plant stress signal transduction. Discovery of signaling networks and biological sensors, using systems biological approaches, transcriptomics, proteomics and genome editing.

Jonathan Sebat
Chief, Beyster Center for Molecular Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases; Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
Research Focus: Genome informatics, psychiatric genetics, copy number variation (CNV), de novo mutation

Benjamin Smarr
Assistant Professor, BioengineeringAssistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
BISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: What information do biological timeseries hold? What biodynamic interactions generate these signals?

Shankar Subramaniam
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Functional Genomics

Gurol Suel
Associate Professor, Biological SciencesBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Identifying systems-level design principles of cellular differentiation circuits

Pablo Tamayo
Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Development of analysis methods for the functional characterization of cancer genomes including RNAi and CRISPR genetic dependencies. Computational methods, probability and statistics, data analysis, machine learning, computational biology and cancer research.

Palmer Taylor
Professor and Dean, School of PharmacyBISB Research Area(s):
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Neurotransmission Biochemistry

Susan Taylor
Professor, Chemistry and BiochemistryBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: Relationship of CAPK Structure to Function

Glenn Tesler
Associate Professor, MathematicsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
Research Focus: Combinatorics, Genome Rearrangements, Genome Assembly

Yingxiao (Peter) Wang
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Live cell imaging, genetic and epigenetic regulations, immunoengineering, therapeutics

Wei Wang
Professor, Chemistry and BiochemistryProfessor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Epigenomics, 3D genome, systems biology, protein engineering

Joel Wertheim
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Molecular epidemiology of HIV and other RNA viruses; Virus phylogenetics and evolution

Ruth Williams
Professor, MathematicsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes

Elizabeth Winzeler
Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
Research Focus: My laboratory uses big data approaches to solve problems in global health. The lab also offers training in cheminformatics and chemical genomics.

Ronghui (Lily) Xu
Professor, MathematicsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
Research Focus: High dimensional data analysis, Imaging Random effects models, Survival analysis, Clinical trials

Gene Yeo
Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineGraduate Program Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
BISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
Research Focus: We develop computational, molecular, biochemical and cellular approaches to understanding and treating human diseases such as neurodegeneration and autism.

Karsten Zengler
Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: We study microbial interactions, using multi-omics analysis and community modeling

Kun Zhang
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: We develop technologies related to single-cell analyses of genome, epigenome and transcriptome, as well as single-cell imaging and lineage tracing. These novel technologies are applied to stem cell fate conversion, human brain mapping and human disease studies.

Sheng Zhong
Professor, BioengineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
Research Focus: Discovery of RNA-RNA, RNA-DNA, protein-protein, and drug-protein interactions by sequencing.