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Erin June Adams

Erin June Adams, PhD

Title: Joseph Regenstein Professor

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: biochemistry, MHC (nonclassical and MHC-like), Molecular Immunology, structural biology, T Cells

Websites: Lab website, Research Network Profile

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Luis Barreiro, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Functional Genomics, Population Genetics, Natural Selection, Innate Immunity, Population Variation

Websites: Barreiro Lab, Research Network Profile

Anindita Basu, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Device Design, Medical, High Throughput RNA Sequencing, Host Pathogen Interactions, Microfluidics, Single Cell Analysis, Single Nucleus Analysis

Websites: Basu Lab, Research Network Profile

Brett K Beaulieu-Jones, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Computational Biomedicine and Biomedical Data Science

Websites: Research Network Profile

Graeme Bell, PhD

Title: Kovler Family Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Endocrinology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Genetics of diabetes, Insulin mutations and diabetes

Websites: Department of Human Genetics, Research Network Profile

Jeremy Berg

Jeremy Berg, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Complex Traits and Diseases, Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics

Websites: Research Network Profile

Douglas K. Bishop

Douglas K. Bishop, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Radiation and Cellular Oncology

Research and Scholarly Interests: meiosis, homologous recombination, homology-directed DNA repair, gene targeting, Rad51, Dmc1, RecA

Websites: Bishop Lab Website, Research Network Profile

Ran Blekhman, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Websites: Blekhman Lab Website, Research Network Profile

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Mengjie Chen

Mengjie Chen, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cancer Genomics, Single Cell Sequencing Analysis, Statistical Genomics

Websites: Genetic Medicine Page, Human Genetics Page, Mengjie Chen Lab, Research Network Profile

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Andrew Wiebe Dahl, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Asthma Genetics, Confounder Correction, Disease Subtypes, Epistasis, Functional Genomics, Genetic Heterogeneity, Heritability, Psychiatric Genetics

Websites: Subtype Lab Site, Research Network Profile

Anna Di Rienzo

Anna Di Rienzo, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Adaptation to high altitude hypoxia, Ancient DNA, Human evolution, Human functional evolution

Websites: Lab web site, Research Network Profile

Mary Eileen Dolan

Mary Eileen Dolan, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Hematology and Oncology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Antineoplastic Agents, Genome Wide Association Studies, IPS Cells, Pharmacogenomics, Toxicities, Drug

Websites: My Lab Objectives, Research Network Profile

D. Allan Drummond

D. Allan Drummond, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cell Biology, Heat Shock Response, Molecular Evolution, Phase Separation, Stress Response, Physiological

Websites: Drummond Lab, Research Network Profile

Wei Du

Wei Du, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cell proliferation and cell death, Drosophila, E2F Transcription Factors, retina development, Retinoblastoma Protein

Websites: lab web site, Research Network Profile

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Richard G. Fehon

Richard G. Fehon, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cell signaling, Development, Epithelial polarity, Genetics, Hippo pathway, Microscopy

Websites: Fehon Lab, Research Network Profile

Jingyi Fei

Jingyi Fei, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Gene regulation, RNA, Single-molecule microscopy, Super-resolution imaging,

Websites: Fei Group, Research Network Profile

Edwin L. Ferguson

Edwin L. Ferguson, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Development and Evolution, Drosophila, Embryogenesis, Intercellular Signaling, Pattern Formation, Stem Cell Biology

Websites: MGCB Web Page, Research Network Profile

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Yoav Gilad

Yoav Gilad, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Medicine

Websites: Research Network Profile

T. Conrad Gilliam

T. Conrad Gilliam, PhD

Title: Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Websites: Research Network Profile

Benjamin Glick

Benjamin Glick, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Membranes, Cell, Microscopy, Electron, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Organelles

Websites: Glick Lab, Research Network Profile

Michael A. Glotzer

Michael A. Glotzer, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cell Polarity, Centralspindlin, Cytokinesis, Optogenetics, Rho GTPases

Websites: Glotzer Lab, Research Network Profile

Tatyana Golovkina

Tatyana Golovkina, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Microbiology

Research and Scholarly Interests: viruses, bacteria, commensal microbes

Websites: Research Network Profile

Christopher M. Gomez

Christopher M. Gomez, MD

Title: Albina Y. Surbis Professor

Department: Neurology

Websites: Research Network Profile

Robert Grossman

Robert Grossman, PhD

Title: Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Medicine

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Xin He

Xin He, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cancer genomics, Computational biology, Gene regulation, Psychiatric genetics, Statistical genetics

Websites: Lab website, Research Network Profile

Chuan He

Chuan He, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Chemistry

Research and Scholarly Interests: Chemical biology, DNA methylation, Epigenetics, RNA modification

Websites: My Lab Site, Research Network Profile

Elizabeth S. Heckscher

Elizabeth S. Heckscher, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Drosophila, Evolution, Biological, Lineage, Cell, Motor Activity, Neuron, Sensory Function, Stem Cell, Transcription Factor

Websites: Heckscher Lab Website, MGCB Heckscher Lab, Research Network Profile

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Hae Kyung Im

Hae Kyung Im, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Genome Mapping, Genome Wide Association Studies, Statistical Models, Transcriptome Analyses

Websites: Im Lab Site, Uchicago Site Im Lab, Research Network Profile

Evgeny G Izumchenko, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Hematology and Oncology

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Aly Khan, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Family Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Computational Biology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Precision Medicine, Systems Immunology

Websites: Laboratory for Computational Immunology, Research Network Profile

Sonia S. Kupfer

Sonia S. Kupfer, MD

Title: Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Gastroenterology

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Heng-Chi Lee

Heng-Chi Lee, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: C. elegans, Chromatin, Epigenetics, Genome Instability, Infertility, RNA Processing, Post Transcriptional, Small Non-Coding RNA

Websites: Lee Lab Website, Research Network Profile

Yang I. Li

Yang I. Li, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Complex Traits, Genomics, Molecular Biology, RNA splicing, Statistical Genetics

Websites: Li Lab, Research Network Profile

Manyuan Long

Manyuan Long, PhD

Title: Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Ecology and Evolution

Research and Scholarly Interests: molecular evolution, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary novelties, sexual selection, adaptation, bioinformatics, new gene functions

Websites: Long Lab Website, Research Network Profile

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Jocelyn Malamy

Jocelyn Malamy, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Arabidopsis thaliana, jellyfish, Phloem, regeneration, wound healing

Websites: Malamy Lab website, Research Network Profile

Heather Marlow

Heather Marlow, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Organismal Biology and Anatomy

Research and Scholarly Interests: Genomics, Evolution, Regulatory Networks

Websites: Marlow Lab Website, Research Network Profile

Mary Sara Mc Peek

Mary Sara Mc Peek

Title: Professor

Department: Statistics

Websites: Research Network Profile

Megan Mcnerney

Megan Mcnerney, MD

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Pathology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cancer, Genomics, Hematopoiesis, Myeloid Leukemia, Transcription Factor

Websites: McNerney Lab, Research Network Profile

Sampriti Mukherjee

Sampriti Mukherjee, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Bacterial genetics, Bacterial sensory signal transduction, Biofilms, Genomics, Microscopy, Molecular biology

Websites: Mukherjee Lab, Research Network Profile

Edwin M. Munro

Edwin M. Munro, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: actomyosin contractility, cell polarity, computational biology, morphogenesis

Websites: Munro Lab, Research Network Profile

Arvind Murugan

Title: Associate Professor, Physics and the James Franck Institute

Department: Physics

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Marcelo A. Nobrega

Marcelo A. Nobrega, MD PhD

Title: A.N. Pritzker Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Ronan O'Malley

Ronan O'Malley, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Websites: Research Network Profile

Carole Ober

Carole Ober, PhD

Title: Chair

Department: Human Genetics

Websites: My Lab Site, Research Network Profile

Olufunmilayo Olopade

Olufunmilayo Olopade, MBBS

Title: Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Hematology and Oncology

Websites: Cancer Biology, Cancer Risk and Prevention, Global Health, UChicago Medicine, Research Network Profile

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Tao Pan

Tao Pan, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: epitranscriptomics, Functional genomics, Microbiome, RNA modification, tRNA

Websites: Pan Lab site, Research Network Profile

Brandon L. Pierce

Brandon L. Pierce, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Public Health Sciences

Research and Scholarly Interests: Aging, Arsenic, Cancer, Epigenetics, gene regulation, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Epidemiology, Telomeres

Websites: Pierce Lab, Research Network Profile

David Pincus

David Pincus, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: chaperone, Hsf1, Hsp40, Hsp70, Hsp90, kinase, Phosphorylation, proteostasis

Websites: Pincus Lab, Research Network Profile

Andrea Piunti

Andrea Piunti, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Pediatrics

Section: Hematology and Oncology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Brain Cancer, Chromatin, Epigenetics, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Rare Diseases

Websites: Lab webpage, Research Network Profile

Sebastian Pott

Sebastian Pott, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Research and Scholarly Interests: Epigenetics, Genomics, Regulation of Gene Expression, Single-Cell Analyses

Websites: Pott Lab, Research Network Profile

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Maanasa Raghavan

Maanasa Raghavan, PhD

Title: Neubauer Family Assistant Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Ancient DNA, Genomics, Human Evolution, Population and Evolutionary Genetics

Websites: Lab Website, Research Network Profile

Arjun Raman

Arjun Raman, MD PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Pathology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Microbiome, Neural Networks (Computer), Statistical Data Analysis, Systems Biology

Websites: Research Network Profile

Rama Ranganathan

Rama Ranganathan, MD PhD

Title: Joseph Regenstein Professor

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: adaptation, cellular, computational and statistical models, Evolution, protein, protein folding, statistical analysis

Websites: Ranganathan Lab, Research Network Profile

Ilaria Rebay

Ilaria Rebay, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cell Fate Specification, Drosophila, Retinal Development, Signal Transduction Pathways, Transcription Factor Networks

Websites: Rebay Lab, Research Network Profile

John Reinitz

John Reinitz, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Ecology and Evolution

Websites: Research Network Profile

Marsha Rosner

Marsha Rosner, PhD

Title: Charles B. Huggins Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Research and Scholarly Interests: Cancer, Breast, Exosomes, Macrophages, Metastasis, Oxidative Stress, Phosphorylation, Signal Transduction Pathways, Single Cell Analysis

Websites: Rosner Lab, Research Network Profile

Lucia Rothman-Denes

Lucia Rothman-Denes, PhD

Title: Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Websites: Research Network Profile

Michael J. Rust

Michael J. Rust, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Research and Scholarly Interests: Bacteria, Biochemistry, Cell Division, Circadian Rhythms, Mathematical Model, Microscopy, Fluorescence

Websites: Rust Lab, Research Network Profile

Andrey Rzhetsky

Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD

Title: Edna K. Papazian Professor

Department: Medicine

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Neil H. Shubin

Neil H. Shubin, PhD

Title: Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor

Department: Organismal Biology and Anatomy

Websites: The Shubin Lab, Research Network Profile

Yuval Simons

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Websites: Research Network Profile

Matthias Steinruecken

Matthias Steinruecken, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Ecology and Evolution

Research and Scholarly Interests: Mathematical Biology, Population Genetics, Statistical Genetics

Websites: Lab Site, Research Network Profile

Matthew Stephens

Matthew Stephens

Title: Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Websites: github page, lab website, Research Network Profile

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Joseph Thornton

Joseph Thornton, PhD

Title: Professor

Department: Ecology and Evolution

Research and Scholarly Interests: Biochemistry, Evolution, Evolution, Genetic, Evolutionary biochemistry, Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics

Websites: Thornton Lab website, Research Network Profile

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Aarti Venkat, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Computational Biomedicine and Biomedical Data Science

Websites: Research Network Profile

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Joshua A. Weinstein, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Medicine

Section: Genetic Medicine

Websites: Weinstein Lab at UChicago, Research Network Profile

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Lixing Yang

Lixing Yang, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Research and Scholarly Interests: Bioinformatics, Cancer, Computational Biology, Genomics

Websites: Yang Lab Website, Research Network Profile

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Xiaochang Zhang

Xiaochang Zhang, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Human Genetics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Alternative RNA Splicing, Brain development and disorders, Cell type specification, Gene regulation

Websites: Human Genetics, Zhang Lab, Research Network Profile

Yingming Zhao

Yingming Zhao, PhD

Title: Louis Block Professor

Department: Ben May Department of Cancer Research

Research and Scholarly Interests: Proteomics, epigenetics, protein modifications, cancer, metabolism, Warburg effect

Websites: Research Network Profile