GME Training Faculty
- Barreiro, Luis (steering committee): The intersection between the functional genomics of the immune response and evolutionary genetics
- Basu, Anindita: Microfluidics, genomics, and nano- and biomaterials
- Bates, John: The evolution of birds at the level of species and populations using comparative genetic and morphologic approaches
- Berg, Jeremy: Population and quantitative genetics, complex traits and diseases
- Bishop, Douglas: Molecular mechanisms of meiotic recombination; breast cancer susceptibility genes in DNA repair
- Blekhman, Ran:
- Carrillo, Robert: Developmental genetic programs that regulate neuronal development and wiring
- Chang, Eugene: Identifying genetic determinants of successful colonization and interspecies competition among gut microbes
- Chen, Lin: Development of statistical methods for analyzing highdimensional genomics data
- Chen, Mengie: Statistical methods for genetic data analysis and research
- Cobey, Sarah: Coevolution of pathogens and hosts’ adaptive immunity
- Coleman, Maureen: Population genetics and genome evolution of bacteria, bacteriophage-host interactions
- Dahl, Andrew: Computational approaches to discover and characterize novel subtypes of complex diseases
- DiRienzo, Anna (steering committee): Amount and patterns of genetic variation in human populations
- Drummond, D. Allan: Spectrum, frequency and consequences of errors in protein synthesis, sensing and response to misfolded proteins
- Du, Wei: The function of RB family proteins in Drosophila and dissection of the RB pathway through genetic screens
- Fehon, Richard: Genetic analysis of cell signaling and specialized membrane domains in Drosophila
- Gilad, Yoav: Genetics of olfaction; inter-primate comparisons of gene expression profiles
- Golovkina, Tatyana: Analysis of host-retrovirus interactions using genetics approaches
- Greenberg, Jean: Plant defense mechanisms and bacterial pathogenesis
- He, Xin: Computational and statistical methods for identification of genes involved in complex diseases and for regulatory genomics
- Heckscher, Ellie (steering committee): Focus is on the development and function of neural circuits in the motor system
- Horne-Badovinac, Sally: Epithelial morphogenesis and organ shape
- Im, Hakey: Quantitative and computational methods and tools to sift through the vast amounts of genomic and other high dimensional data to improve human health
- Koh, Andrew: Epigenetic mechanisms that allow flexibility in cellular fate and function in the immune system
- Kratsios, Paschalis: The gene regulatory mechanisms that control motor neuron development and function
- Kreitman, Martin: Functional evolution of cisregulatory sequences, and canalization in evolutionand development
- Kronforst, Marcus (steering committee): Genetics basis of adaptation and speciation in butterflies using population genomics, analyses of gene expression and behavior
- Lee, Heng-Chi: Small RNAs-medicated epigenetic regulation and genome surveillance
- Li, Yang : Understanding mechanisms of disease and gene regulation using computational, genetic, and molecular biology tools
- Long, Manyuan: Origin of genes with novel functions
- Marlow, Heather: Genomics, evolution and regulatory networks
- McNerney, Megan: Genomic changes in blood cancers with the goal of identifying therapeutic vulnerabilities
- McPeek, Mary Sara: Applications of probability and statistics to genetics
- Moskowitz, Ivan: Molecular genetics of cardiovascular development and congenital heart disease
- Mukherjee, Sampriti:
- Muralidhar, Pavitra:
- Nicolae, Dan L.: Statistical genetics and the genetics of complex traits
- Nobrega, Marcelo: Heart development and congenital heart diseases, gene regulatory architecture, vertebrate comparative genomics
- Novembre, John: Computational approaches to study processes that shape human genetic diversity
- Ober, Carole: Complex trait mapping in an inbred population
- O'Malley, Ronan:
- Pfister, Catherine (steering committee): Species dynamics in marine ecosystems: their importance and their response to climate change
- Pierce, Brandon: How genetic variation influences or alters the effects of environmental exposures and biomarkers on human health and biology
- Pincus, David: System mechanics of cellular stress responses
- Prince, Victoria (steering committee): Pattern formation along the primary body axis of the Zebrafish embryo
- Raghavan, Maanasa: Population and evolutionary genetics
- Ranganathan, Rama: Design principles that underlie structure, function, and adaptation in biological systems
- Rebay, Ilaria: Nuclear circuitries downstream of conserved signal transduction pathways regulating critical developmental decisions
- Rust, Michael: Biophysical and biochemical study of the architecture and robustness of biological systems; the cyanobacterial circadian clock
- Ruthenburg, Alexander: Chromatin Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemical Biology. Impact on epigenetics
- Rzhetsky, Andrey: Text-mining of biomedical facts, probabilistic modeling of biological processes and genetics of complex traits
- Schmidt-Ott, Urs: Evolution of developmental processes
- Shubin, Neil: Developmental studies to identify mechanisms behind and origin of anatomical features
- Spitz, Francois (steering committee): Genetic and molecular basis of intracellular bacterial pathogen-host interactions
- Staley, Jonathan: Genetics of ATPases and RNA rearrangements in spliceosome activation
- Steinrüecken, Matthias: Inferring complex demographic histories using whole-genome sequencing datasets and general selection from time series genetic data
- Stephens, Matthew: Development of novel statistical methods for genetic analysis
- Thornton, Joseph: Mechanisms and dynamics by which genes and the proteins they encode have evolved diverse functions
- Turkewitz, Aaron: Genetics of regulation protein secretion in Tetrahymena
- Weinstein, Joshua: DNA-based technologies for the next generation of precision biology
- Zhang, Zhuzhu: