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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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T. Conrad Gilliam, PhD
Title: Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Distinguished Service Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Websites: Research Network Profile
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, 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, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Microbiology
Research and Scholarly Interests: viruses, bacteria, commensal microbes
Websites: Research Network Profile
Christopher M. Gomez, MD
Title: Albina Y. Surbis Professor
Department: Neurology
Websites: Research Network Profile
Jean Greenberg, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Research and Scholarly Interests: induced systemic resistance, plant immunity, Posttranslational Modifications, Pseudomonas syringae, systemic acquired resistance, type III pathogen effector
Websites: Research Network Profile
Robert Grossman, PhD
Title: Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor
Department: Medicine
Websites: Research Network Profile
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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
Tong-Chuan He, MD PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Research and Scholarly Interests: BMP signaling, Bone and skeletal biology, Bone and soft tissue tumors, Cancer drug resistance, Cancer metastasis, Gene/cell-based therapy, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Noncoding RNAs, Regenerative medicine, Wnt signaling
Websites: Google Scholar, Lab homepage, Research Network Profile
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, 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, 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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Barbara Lynne Kee, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Pathology
Research and Scholarly Interests: B Lymphocytes, immune system development, Innate Immunity, Natural Killer Cells, Natural Killer T Cells, T Lymphocytes
Websites: Research Network Profile
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
Andrew Seung-Hyun Koh, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Pathology
Research and Scholarly Interests: Aire, Chemical-Induced Proximity, Chromatin Remodeling, Epigenetics, Immune Tolerance, Single Cell Genomics, T Cell Repertoire Selection
Websites: Koh Lab, Research Network Profile
Paschalis Kratsios, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Neurobiology
Research and Scholarly Interests: C.elegans genetics, chromatin factors, gene regulation, Gene Regulatory Networks, mouse genetics, neuronal development, Transcription Factors
Websites: Kratsios Lab, Research Network Profile
Stephen J. Kron, MD PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Research and Scholarly Interests: Checkpoints, Cell Cycle, DNA Repair, Immunotherapy, Radiotherapy, Senescence, Cell, Systems Biology
Websites: Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Faculty Profile, Kron Lab, Research Network Profile
Sonia S. Kupfer, MD
Title: Professor
Department: Medicine
Section: Gastroenterology
Websites: Research Network Profile
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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, 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
Xuanyao Liu, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Medicine
Section: Genetic Medicine
Research and Scholarly Interests: Complex traits and diseases, Computational Biology, Computational genomics, Functional genetics and genomics, Human genetics, Statistical genetics
Websites: Google Scholar, Liu Lab Network website, Xuanyao Liu's Lab, Research Network Profile
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, 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, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Research and Scholarly Interests: Genomics, Evolution, Regulatory Networks
Websites: Marlow Lab Website, Research Network Profile
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
Ivan Moskowitz, MD PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Pediatrics
Section: Cardiology
Research and Scholarly Interests: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Cardiac Rhythm, Congenital Heart Disease, Developmental Biology, Developmental Gene Expression Regulation, Genetics, Genetics, Molecular, Genomics, Heart Development, Transcriptional Regulatory Elements
Websites: Research Network Profile
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, 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, MD PhD
Title: A.N. Pritzker Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Websites: Research Network Profile
John Novembre, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Research and Scholarly Interests: Computational Biology, Computational Statistics, Data Science, Genomics, Human Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Population Genetics
Websites: Novembre Lab Site, Research Network Profile
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Ronan O'Malley, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Websites: Research Network Profile
Carole Ober, PhD
Title: Chair
Department: Human Genetics
Websites: My Lab Site, Research Network Profile
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, 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
Alexander T Pearson, MD PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Medicine
Section: Hematology and Oncology
Research and Scholarly Interests: Education, Graduate Medical, Head and Neck Cancer, Mathematical Model, Models, Biologic, Neural Network Models, Salivary Gland Cancers, Statistical Models, Therapies, Combined Modality, Tumor Cell Lines, Tumor Immune Escape
Websites: Research Network Profile
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Ecology and Evolution
Websites: Research Network Profile
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, PhD
Title: Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor
Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Websites: Research Network Profile
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
Alexander J. Ruthenburg, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Research and Scholarly Interests: Biochemistry, Chromatin, Chromatin Associated RNA, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Epigenetic Process, Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Genomics, Nucleosomes, Regulation of Gene Expression, Transcriptional Activation
Websites: ruthenlab.org, Research Network Profile
Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD
Title: Edna K. Papazian Professor
Department: Medicine
Websites: Research Network Profile
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Urs C. Schmidt-Ott, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Research and Scholarly Interests: Axis Specification, Development and Evolution, Drosophila, Embryogenesis, Gene Network, Genomics, Mosquito, Pattern Formation
Websites: Schmidt-Ott Laboratory: Developmental Mechanisms and Evolution, Research Network Profile
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
Francois Spitz, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Research and Scholarly Interests: Developmental Disorders, Epigenomics, Evolution, Genetic, Gene Expression Regulation, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genomics
Websites: Spitzlab website, Research Network Profile
Jonathan Prescott Staley, PhD
Title: Chair
Department: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Research and Scholarly Interests: ATPase, Baker's Yeast, Brewer's Yeast, cotranscriptional processes, DEAD-box RNA Helicases, DEAH-box RNA helicase, Exon, Gene Expression Regulation, genome-wide studies, Intron, mammalian proteins, mammalian systems, Messenger RNA, Nuclear Export, Pre-mRNA, RNA, RNA dependent ATPase, RNA Helicase, RNA Sequence, snRNA, Spliceosome, splicing, Yeast Proteins
Websites: Staley Lab Website, Research Network Profile
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
Title: Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Websites: github page, lab website, Research Network Profile
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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, 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, 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
Zhuzhu Zhang, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Human Genetics
Research and Scholarly Interests: Brain development and disorders, Epigenomics, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genetics, Neuroscience, Psychiatric disorders, Single-cell genomics
Websites: Research Network Profile
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
Xiaoxi Zhuang, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Neurobiology
Research and Scholarly Interests: dopamine, basal ganglia, plasticity, learning, memory, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders
Websites: Zhuang Lab, Research Network Profile