Faculty

Name Rank Primary Department or Program Research Interest  
Monserrat Anguera*(co-PI) Associate Professor Biomedical Sciences (VMD) Epigenetics, X-Chromosome Inactivation, Xist RNA, female-biased autoimmunity  
Yoseph Barash Associate 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 Development Biology (PSOM) Epigenetics, chromatin, histone post-translational modifications, p53 tumor suppressor  
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 Associate Professor Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) Epigenetics of behavior  
Edward S Brodkin Associate Professor Psychiatry (PSOM) Autism Genetics and Mouse Models  
Elizabeth Bhoj Assistant Professor PSOM - Pediatrics Neurodegenerative disorders in children  
Maja Bucan Professor Genetics (PSOM) Psychiatric Genomics  
Pablo Camara Assistant Professor PSOM - Genetics Computational approaches to the study of cellular heterogeneity  
Colin Conine Assistant Professor PSOM - Genetics/Neonatology Small RNAs in Fertility, Inheritance, and Development  
Jenn Cremins Associate Professor SEAS - Bioengineering Chromatin and spatial neurobiology  
Stephen DiNardo Professor Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) Epithelial morphogenesis and Stem cell-niche interactions  
Douglas J Epstein* (Co-PI)* Professor Genetics (PSOM) Transcriptional control of Shh signaling; genetics of ear development and hearing loss  
Ziyue Gao Assistant Professor PSOM - Genetics Genetic variation in human populations  
Struan FA Grant Professor Pediatrics (PSOM) Genomics of common pediatric endocrine traits  
Elizabeth A Grice Associate Professor Dermatology (PSOM) Skin microbiome  
Michael Hart  Assistant Professor PSOM - Genetics Neuronal circuit formation and plasticity  
Elizabeth Heller Assistant Professor PSOM - Pharmacology Epigenome remodeling of neuronal gene function and behavior  
Erika Holzbaur Professor Physiology (PSOM) Microtubule-based motility  
Rajan Jain Assistant 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* Assistant Professor Genetics (PSOM) Regulation of chromatin folding  
Rahul Kohli Associate Professor PSOM - Medicine DNA modifying enzymes  
Klaus H Kaestner Professor Genetics (PSOM) Gut Dev., Liver Cancer, Diabetes  
Yana Kamberov Assistant Professor PSOM - Genetics Skin development and evolution  
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  
Mustafa Mir Assistant Professor PSOM - Cell and Development Biology Dynamics of nuclear organization and gene expression  
Iain Mathieson Assistant Professor Genetics (PSOM) Human population genetics, natural selection, and complex traits  
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 Associate Professor Genetics (PSOM) Gene regulation in development  
         
Dan Rader Professor PSOM - Genetics Genetics of cardiovascular disease  
David M Raizen Associate Professor Neurology (PSOM) The regulation and function of sleep  
Arjun Raj Professor Bioengineering (SEAS) Single-cell systems biology  
Patrick Seale Associate Professor Cell and Development Biology (PSOM) Transcriptional regulation of adipose biology  
Amita Sehgal Professor Neuroscience (PSOM) Circadian Rhythms  
Ophir Shalem Assistant Professor Genetics (PSOM) Functional genomics, forward genetics, protein quality control, neurodegeneration, genome editing  
Eileen M Shore Research 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  
Christoph Thaiss Assistant Professor PSOM - Microbiology Environmental impacts on human physiology  
Sarah A Tishkoff Professor Genetics (PSOM) Genomic variation, human evolution, and disease risk in global populations  
Golnaz Vahedi Associate Professor PSOM - Genetics Genomic immunology  
Benjamin Franklin Voight Associate Professor Pharmacology (PSOM) Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics Human Genetics of type 2 diabetes and heart disease  
Liling Wan Assistant Professor PSOM - Cancer Biology Chromatin regulation in cell fate and cancer  
Kathryn Wellen Associate 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)