Faculty
| Name | Rank | Primary Department or Program | Research Interest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naiara Akizu | Associate Professor | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of developmental brain disorders | ||
| Monserrat Anguera*(Co-PI) | Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences (VMD) | Epigenetics, X-Chromosome Inactivation, Xist RNA, female-biased autoimmunity | ||
| Yoseph Barash | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | RNA Processing, Gene Regulation, Bioinformatics | ||
| Marisa S Bartolomei* | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Epigenetic regulation of genomic imprinting and mammalian development | ||
| Greg J Bashaw | Professor | Neuroscience (PSOM) | Developmental Neuroscience, Axon Guidance | ||
| Shelley L Berger | Professor | Cell and Developmental Biology (PSOM) | Epigenetics, chromatin, histone post-translational modifications, p53 tumor suppressor | ||
| Elizabeth Bhoj | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics (PSOM) | Neurodegenerative disorders in children | ||
| Ben E Black | Professor | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | Chromosome Inheritance and the basis for specifying centromere location | ||
| M. Andres Blanco | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Sciences (VMD) | Mechanisms by which epigenetic information is encoded, interpreted, and propagated in normal and pathological (eg. cancerous) cell identity programs | ||
| Gerd A Blobel | Professor | Pediatrics (PSOM) | Higher-order chromatin structure, gene expression, epigenetic memory, transcription factors, mitosis, BET proteins, gene therapy | ||
| Roberto Bonasio | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Epigenetics of behavior | ||
| Edward S Brodkin | Associate Professor | Psychiatry (PSOM) | Autism Genetics and Mouse Models | ||
| Maja Bucan | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Psychiatric Genomics | ||
| Pablo Camara | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Computational approaches to the study of cellular heterogeneity | ||
| Peter Choi | Assistant Professor | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PSOM) | Genetic basis of cancer: regulation and role of RNA splicing | ||
| Colin Conine | Assistant Professor | Genetics/Neonatology (PSOM) | Small RNAs in Fertility, Inheritance, and Development | ||
| Stephen DiNardo | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Epithelial morphogenesis and Stem cell-niche interactions | ||
| Douglas J Epstein* (PI)* | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Transcriptional control of Shh signaling; genetics of ear development and hearing loss | ||
| Ziyue Gao | Assistant Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genetic variation in human populations | ||
| Struan FA Grant | Professor | Pediatrics & Genetics (PSOM) | Genomics of common pediatric endocrine traits | ||
| Elizabeth A Grice | Professor | Dermatology (PSOM) | Skin microbiome | ||
| Michael Hart | Assistant Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Neuronal circuit formation and plasticity | ||
| Elizabeth Heller | Associate Professor | Pharmacology (PSOM) | Epigenome remodeling of neuronal gene function and behavior | ||
| Erika Holzbaur | Professor | Physiology (PSOM) | Microtubule-based motility | ||
| Rajan Jain | Associate Professor | Medicine (PSOM) | Stem cell biology, heart development, and genome organization | ||
| Thomas A Jongens* | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genetic Models of Intellectual Disability | ||
| Eric F Joyce* | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Regulation of chromatin folding | ||
| Klaus H Kaestner | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Gut Dev., Liver Cancer, Diabetes | ||
| Jennifer Kalish | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics (PSOM) | Intersection between gene regulation and cancer predisposition syndromes focusing on Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome | ||
| Yana Kamberov | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Skin development and evolution | ||
| Eugene Khandros | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics (PSOM) | Disorders of red blood cells and hemoglobin production | ||
| Rahul Kohli | Associate Professor | Medicine (PSOM) | DNA modifying enzymes | ||
| Erica Korb | Assistant Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Chromatin, Histones, Synaptic Plasticity, Learning, Memory, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Autism | ||
| Mitchell A Lazar | Professor | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (PSOM) | Epigenomic regulation of transcription and metabolism by nuclear receptors; mechanism of obesity-associated insulin resistance and diabetes; circadian regulation of metabolism. | ||
| Kristen W Lynch | Professor | Biochemistry and Biophysics (PSOM) | RNA Processing | ||
| Iain Mathieson | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Human population genetics, natural selection, and complex traits | ||
| Mustafa Mir | Assistant Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Dynamics of nuclear organization and gene expression | ||
| Mary C Mullins | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Adult genetic screens in zebrafish. Maternal regulation of development. P-Smad5 transcriptional thresholds | ||
| John Isaac Murray | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Gene regulation in development | ||
| Dan Rader | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genetics of cardiovascular disease | ||
| David M Raizen | Professor | Neurology (PSOM) | The regulation and function of sleep | ||
| Arjun Raj | Professor | Bioengineering (SEAS) | Single-cell systems biology | ||
| Patrick Seale | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Transcriptional regulation of adipose biology | ||
| Amita Sehgal | Professor | Neuroscience (PSOM) | Circadian Rhythms | ||
| Ophir Shalem | Associate Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Functional genomics, forward genetics, protein quality control, neurodegeneration, genome editing | ||
| Eileen M Shore | Professor | Orthopaedic Surgery (PSOM) | Rare human genetic disease, genetic regulation of cell fates, epigenetic regulation, model organisms, translational studies | ||
| Joseph St Geme | Professor | Pediatrics (PSOM) | Microbial Pathogenesis | ||
| Meera V Sundaram | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genetic control of tubular organ development | ||
| Sarah A Tishkoff | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genomic variation, human evolution, and disease risk in global populations | ||
| Golnaz Vahedi | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Genomic immunology | ||
| Benjamin Franklin Voight | Professor | Pharmacology (PSOM) | Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics Human Genetics of type 2 diabetes and heart disease | ||
| Doris Wagner | Professor | Biology (SAS) | Programming plant reproduction and survival in changing environments | ||
| Liling Wan | Assistant Professor | Cancer Biology (PSOM) | Chromatin regulation in cell fate and cancer | ||
| Kathryn Wellen | Professor | Cancer Biology (PSOM) | Cancer Metabolism | ||
| Kenneth S Zaret | Professor | Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) | Gene regeneration, chromatin, pancreatic cancer | ||
| Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou* | Professor | Genetics (PSOM) | Mouse genetics, gene regulation |
*denotes membership in Training Grant Executive Committee
PSOM = Perelman School of Medicine
SAS = School of Arts & Sciences
SEAS = School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VMD = School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet)