Reza Abbasi-Asl

Reza Abbasi-Asl

Reza.AbbasiAsl@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Core

Research summary: Interpretable machine learning to understand brain functions and related disorders

https://abbasilab.org/

Nadav Ahituv

Nadav Ahituv

nadav.ahituv@ucsf.edu

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Core

Research summary: Deciphering the role of gene regulatory sequences in human biology and disease

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/ahituv

Steven Altschuler

Steven Altschuler

he/him/his

steven.altschuler@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Core

Research summary: Systems pharmacology and quantitative cell biology for drug discovery in cancer, intestinal and neurodegenerative diseases

http://www.AltschulerWuLab.org

Shea Andrews

Shea Andrews

Shea.Andrews@ucsf.edu

Core

Research summary: The Andrews Lab focuses on determining the causal pathways that underly the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) by applying statistical genetic and genetic epidemiological approaches to large genetic & phenotypic datasets.

https://andrewslab.ucsf.edu/

Mark Ansel

Mark Ansel

mark.ansel@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Affiliate

Research summary: Discovering and deciphering the regulatory networks that govern immunity, with a focus on post-transcriptional mechanisms of gene regulation.

https://ansel.ucsf.edu/

Rima Arnaout

Rima Arnaout

rima.arnaout@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cardiology

Core

Research summary: Developing computational methods for precision cardiovascular phenotyping

http://arnaoutlab.ai

Sourav Bandyopadhyay

Sourav Bandyopadhyay

sourav.bandyopadhyay@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Computational and experimental approaches to guide the development of new precision medicines for cancer

http://cancersignaling.net/

Sergio Baranzini

Sergio Baranzini

sergio.baranzini@ucsf.edu

Professor, Neurology

Core

Research summary: Genetics, microbiome and bioinformatics

http://baranzinilab.ucsf.edu/

Joseph Bondy-Denomy

Joseph Bondy-Denomy

joseph.bondy-denomy@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Affiliate

Research summary: CRISPR-Cas Biology and Phage-Bacteria Interactions

https://bondydenomylab.ucsf.edu/

Steven Brenner

Steven Brenner

brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu

Professor, UC Berkeley; Adjunct Professor

Affiliate

Research summary: Phenotypic and clinical impacts of human genome variation, Regulation by alternative splicing, protein function prediction

http://compbio.berkeley.edu

Atul Butte

Atul Butte

atul.butte@ucsf.edu

Professor and Institute Director, Pediatrics

Core

Research summary: Creation and application of tools that convert molecular, clinical, and epidemiological data into diagnostics, therapeutics, and new insights into disease.

http://buttelab.org/

Tony Capra

Tony Capra

tony.capra@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Core

Research summary: Using the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in evolution, genetics, and biomedicine

http://www.capralab.org/

Charles Chiu

Charles Chiu

charles.chiu@ucsf.edu

Professor, Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory Medicine

Affiliate

Research summary: Viral pathogen discovery and characterization, computational algorithms for metagenomics analysis, and the development and validation of next-generation sequencing-based clinical diagnostics for infectious diseases

http://chiulab.ucsf.edu

Jan Christoph

Jan Christoph

Jan.Christoph@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Affiliate

Research summary: Physics of complex biological systems, artificial intelligence, emergent phenomena in cells and (cardiac) tissues, self-organization, biomechanics and electrophysiology.

https://cardiacvision.ucsf.edu/

Bruce Conklin

Bruce Conklin

bconklin@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Professor in Residence, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease

Affiliate

Research summary: Combining the tools of molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, and physiology to answer fundamental issues in pharmacology.

https://labs.gladstone.org/conklin

Ryan Corces

Ryan Corces

ryan.corces@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Gladstone Institutes

Core

Research summary: Functional epigenomics to decipher the gene regulatory underpinnings of neurodegeneration

https://www.corceslab.com/

Joseph DeRisi

Joseph DeRisi

joe@derisilab.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Core

Research summary: Infectious Disease, Genomics

https://derisilab.ucsf.edu

Gabriela Fragiadakis

Gabriela Fragiadakis

gabriela.fragiadakis@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Core

Research summary: My lab studies states of the human immune system across disease contexts using single-cell methods and data integration, including CyTOF and single-cell sequencing.

https://dscolab.ucsf.edu/

Luke Gilbert

Luke Gilbert

luke.gilbert@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Urology

Core

Research summary: Synthetic biology, functional genomics and cancer biology

https://www.gilbertlabucsf.com/

Hani Goodarzi

Hani Goodarzi

he/him/his

hani.goodarzi@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Core

Research summary: Innovative approaches in computational and experimental cancer biology to reveal the post-transcriptional regulatory programs that drive cancer metastasis

http://goodarzilab.ucsf.edu/

Peng He

peng@ebi.ac.uk

Affiliate

Ryan Hernandez

Ryan Hernandez

ryan.hernandez@me.com

Associate Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Core

Research summary: Human population genomics, computational and statistical inference, and analysis of genome resequencing data.

http://bts.ucsf.edu/hernandez_lab/

Thomas Hoffmann

Thomas Hoffmann

thomas.hoffmann@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Affiliate

Research summary: Developing and applying methods to understand the genetics of complex human diseases

Jill Hollenbach

Jill Hollenbach

jill.hollenbach@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Neurology

Core

Research summary: Analysis of the extremely polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) immunogenetics systems

https://hollenbachlab.ucsf.edu

Franklin Huang

Franklin Huang

franklin.huang@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Hematology & Oncology

Affiliate

Research summary: Cancer genomics, cancer disparities, prostate cancer, cellular immortality/mechanisms and genomics of telomere maintenance, cancer computational biology

https://franklinhuanglab.ucsf.edu/

Sandy Johnson

Sandy Johnson

ajohnson@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Affiliate

Research summary: Transcription circuits, their evolution, and how they function in microbial pathogenesis

http://johnsonlab.ucsf.edu/

Martin Kampmann

Martin Kampmann

he/him/his

martin.kampmann@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Core

Research summary: Protein homeostasis in normal & disease states of human cells, in particular neurodegeneration

http://kampmannlab.ucsf.edu

Michael Keiser

Michael Keiser

he/him/his

keiser@keiserlab.org

Associate Professor, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Core

Research summary: How small molecules perturb entire protein networks to achieve their therapeutic effects

http://www.keiserlab.org

Tanja Kortemme

Tanja Kortemme

she/her/hers

kortemme@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Core

Research summary: Computational biology, prediction and design of protein interactions and networks, synthetic biology

http://kortemmelab.ucsf.edu/

Nevan Krogan

Nevan Krogan

he/him/his

nevan.krogan@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Affiliate

Research summary: Functional Insights from Genetic and Physical Interaction Maps

http://kroganlab.ucsf.edu

Hao Li

Hao Li

haoli@genome.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Core

Research summary: Bioinformatics, genome sequence analysis, gene regulation

*DEI/Mentorship Training Verified 2022

http://mobydick.ucsf.edu/~haoli/

Jingjing Li

Jingjing Li

jingjing.li@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Core

Research summary: Large-scale analysis of disease genomes by integrating multi-omics data, evolutionary insights, electronic health records, as well as digitized clinical traits from imaging and wearable sensor readouts

https://www.complexdisease.org/

Wendell Lim

Wendell Lim

wendell.lim@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Affiliate

Research summary: Design principles of cellular signaling systems

http://limlab.ucsf.edu/

Hiten Madhani

Hiten Madhani

hitenmadhani@gmail.com

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Affiliate

Research summary: (1) Silencing of transposons and repeats by chromatin and RNAi; (2) fungal pathogenesis

http://madhanilab.ucsf.edu

Sharmila Majumdar

sharmila.majumdar@ucsf.edu

PROFESSOR IN RESIDENCE-HCOMP, Radiology

Core

Research summary: My research interest in applying computer vison and artificial intelligence across the medical imaging lifecycle, from acquisition, quantitative analysis to disease characterization in large datasets.

Michael McManus

Michael McManus

michael.mcmanus@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Affiliate

Research summary: Quantitative biology research lab that uses systematic high-throughput and synthetic approaches to conquer fundamental problems in understanding gene function in health and disease.

http://mcmanuslab.ucsf.edu/

Elphege Nora

Elphege Nora

elphege.nora@ucsf.edu

Affiliate

Research summary: Our group studies the molecular mechanisms of chromosomes folding and how they enable the emergence of genomic functions - with a focus on transcriptional regulation during stem cell differentiation.

https://noralab.ucsf.edu/

Tomasz Nowakowski

Core

Research summary: Dr. Nowakowski seeks to uncover genetic control mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental events and tissue organization in the cerebral cortex, and highlight and cellular patterns of selective vulnerability in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia.

https://nowakowski-lab.squarespace.com/

Vasilis Ntranos

Vasilis Ntranos

vasilis.ntranos@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Diabetes Center

Core

Research summary: Computational methods development at the intersection of information theory, genomics and machine learning, with a focus on single cell biology and alternative splicing

Michael Oldham

michael.oldham@ucsf.edu

Affiliate

Lorenzo Pasquini

Lorenzo.Pasquini@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Affiliate

Karin Pelka

karin.pelka@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Gladstone Institute

Affiliate

https://pelkalab.org

Katie Pollard

Katie Pollard

kpollard@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Professor, Gladstone Institutes

Core

Research summary: Comparative genomics, metagenomics, evolution, machine-learning, multivariate statistics

http://docpollard.org

David Quigley

David Quigley

david.quigley@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Urology

Core

Research summary: How tumor genomes evolve in response to targeted therapy

https://quigleylab.ucsf.edu

Vijay Ramani

Vijay Ramani

Vijay.Ramani@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Gladstone Institutes

Core

Research summary: Development of cutting-edge molecular technologies to better understand how genomes are structured, regulated, and interpreted in health and disease

https://kamakshi.ucsf.edu/

Neil Risch

Neil Risch

neil.risch@ucsf.edu

Professor and Director, Institute for Human Genetics

Core

Research summary: Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases in ethnic populations

http://humgen.medschool.ucsf.edu/

Andrej Sali

Andrej Sali

sali@salilab.org

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Core

Research summary: Computation grounded in the laws of physics and evolution to study the structure and function of proteins

http://www.salilab.org/

Mark Segal

Mark Segal

mark.segal@ucsf.edu

Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Affiliate

Research summary: Statistical and computational methods in genomics with a current emphasis on 3D chromatin conformation.

http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/epidem/personnel/msegal2.html

Mark Seielstad

Mark Seielstad

mark.seielstad@ucsf.edu

Professor, Institute for Human Genetics

Affiliate

Research summary: Search for genetic variation underlying complex human diseases of immunity and metabolism

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/mark.seielstad

Yin Shen

Yin Shen

yin.shen@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Neurology

Affiliate

Research summary: Investigate genome function using functional genomics, iPSC models, and CRISPR screens.

http://shenlab.ucsf.edu/

Brian Shoichet

Brian Shoichet

bshoichet@gmail.com

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Core

Research summary: Molecular docking, structure-based inhibitor discovery, G Protein Coupled Receptors, colloidal aggregation and phospholipidosis in drug discovery and formulation, drug discovery for analgesia and psychiatric disorders.

https://bkslab.org/

Param Singh

Param Singh

Param.Singh@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Bakar Aging Research Institute

Core

Research summary: Decoding gene regulation during vertebrate diapause, aging and disease

https://www.singhlabucsf.org

Marina Sirota

Marina Sirota

marina.sirota@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Core

Research summary: Develop integrative computational methods and apply these approaches in the context of disease diagnostics and therapeutics

http://sirotalab.ucsf.edu/

Matthew Spitzer

Matthew Spitzer

matthew.spitzer@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology

Core

Research summary: Systems approaches and single-cell data to understand how the immune system mounts responses, with a specific emphasis in cancer immunology

https://spitzerlab.ucsf.edu/

Catherine Tcheandjieu

Catherine Tcheandjieu

catherine.tcheandjieu@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Gladstone Institutes

Core

Research summary: Genetic architecture of diseases in diverse populations

https://gladstone.org/index.php/people/catherine-tcheandjieu

Christina Theodoris

Christina Theodoris

christina.theodoris@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Core

Research summary: Leveraging machine learning and experimental genomics to map the gene regulatory networks driving cardiovascular disease and develop network-correcting therapies

theodorislab.gladstone.org

Dara Torgerson

Dara Torgerson

dara.torgerson@ucsf.edu

Associate Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Core

Research summary: Integrative genomic studies of complex disease in diverse populations

Peter Turnbaugh

Peter Turnbaugh

peter.turnbaugh@ucsf.edu

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Affiliate

Research summary: Impact of the human gut microbiome on pharmacology

http://turnbaughlab.ucsf.edu/

Leor Weinberger

Leor Weinberger

leor.weinberger@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Affiliate

Research summary: Single-cell imaging & mathematical modeling of fate-selection circuits

http://weinbergerlab.ucsf.edu/

Lani Wu

Lani Wu

she/her/hers

lani.wu@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Affiliate

Research summary: Drug discovery, cancer drug resistance, neurodegeneration, high-throughput imaging, machine learning, organoid models of disease.

http://www.altschulerwulab.org

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Andrew.Yang@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Neurology, Gladstone Institutes

Affiliate

Research summary: Understanding neuroimmune contributions to brain aging and neurodegenerative disease using single-cell and spatial genomics approaches.

https://www.yanglab-ucsf.org/

Jimmie Ye

Jimmie Ye

jimmie.ye@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Core

Research summary: nteraction between genetics and environment affect human variation at the level of molecular phenotypes

https://www.yelabucsf.org/

Elad Ziv

Elad Ziv

elad.ziv@ucsf.edu

Professor, Medicine, Internal Medicine

Core

Research summary: Application of Population Genetics to the Study of Complex Traits in Humans

https://zivlab.ucsf.edu/