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)