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Steven Boeynaems
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioMy work focuses on our understanding of how cells and organisms maintain proteostasis in changing environments, which remains a poorly understood area of cell biology. Over the years, this has led me to study the cellular stress response in health and disease with an emphasis on the role of tandem repeats, intrinsically disordered domains and biomolecular phase separation. My goal is to translate fundamental biological insights into novel therapeutic approaches for human disease and tools for synthetic biology.
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Andrew Brooks
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioPostdoctoral researcher in the Snyder Lab. My research focuses on the human gut microbiome, and I am involved in multiple multiomic projects investigating how physiological systems through the human body interact across different lifestyles and health states. I perform both wet and dry lab aspects of multiomics analyses, and am involved in two coronavirus research projects including handling of positive SARS-COV-2 samples.
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Rossie Clark-Cotton
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe best-known model of cytokinesis is the "purse-string" model, which proposes that a contractile actomyosin ring provides the force necessary to divide a cell. Recent work has revealed that many eukaryotes perform cytokinesis without an actomyosin structure. As a postdoctoral fellow, I investigate actomyosin-independent mechanisms of cytokinesis using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a model.
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Graham Erwin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioGraham Erwin, Ph.D., is a Stanford Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. He is a molecular, chemical, and genome biologist elucidating the functional role of repetitive DNA sequences. This work is guiding the design of new therapeutics and diagnostics for human disease. Graham is currently supported by an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a co-inventor of synthetic transcription factors to treat devastating neurodegenerative diseases. The resulting patents formed the basis of Design Therapeutics (San Diego, California). He has published first-author papers in high-impact journals including PNAS and Science. Graham is an advocate for first-generation college students and for programs that support mental health and psychological thriving on college campuses. He is a guest lecturer in Wellness Education at Stanford.
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Ariel Bacaner Ganz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioAriel B. Ganz, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the Snyder Lab, Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine researching effective strategies for happiness and well-being, and how psychological changes can alter health on a molecular level. She holds a doctoral degree in Molecular Nutrition from Cornell University and has published across diverse research fields from precision medicine and nutrition to computational chemistry and theoretical physics.
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Daniel Gomari
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsaging, deep learning, metabolomics, healthspan and lifespan extension
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John Gorzynski
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D. Student in Genetics, admitted Autumn 2016
Life Science Research Professional, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular MedicineBioVeterinarian and Researcher with a keen interest in genetic determinants of cardiomyopathies in great apes
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Tuhin Guha
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioA research individual with more than ten years of extensive research experience in molecular biology techniques ranging from DNA/RNA manipulations, recombinant protein expression, purification, and biochemical characterization of DNA-cutting enzymes, needed for genetic engineering. I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University. I work with Dr. Mike Snyder. My research involves multiplexed-molecular imaging for the precancerous and cancerous colon polyps (Familial adenomatous polyposis) using a cutting-edge technology, Codex. My previous work involved novel gene therapy approaches to cure muscle disorders, particularly Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2A using mouse models, and gene repair studies using modified CRISPR system through plasmid/protein-oligo based transfections, electroporation in human cells, microinjection in frog embryos and analyzing editing efficiencies using flow cytometry. I have a multi-disciplinary background, therefore I have a solid understanding and working knowledge in a broader domain within the biological sciences, be it from animal behavior, ecology, gene regulation, genetic diseases to understanding and designing “molecular switches” within DNA-cutting proteins, such as meganucleases, and CRISPR/Cas9 for genome engineering. I have strong communication skills, presented my research in various conferences and published heavily in the field of DNA-cutting enzymes and their use as genome editing tools. I have a proven ability to manage challenging research objectives, collaborated with other research teams, and delivered results effectively. I always welcome new ideas and interact with people to learn any new skills and experiences. I have also supervised several undergraduate project students, summer students and junior graduate students. My mentorship to the lab colleagues have been very productive. While I am not working, I enjoy photography.
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Nicholas Antonios Kalogriopoulos
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioNick's broad research interests are in developing tools and technologies for research and therapeutic applications. Nick obtained a B.S. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his undergraduate career, he trained with Dr. Paul Sondel, where he worked on preclinical testing of novel immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of neuroblastoma. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science with Dr. Pradipta Ghosh, elucidating the structural basis of non-canonical G protein activation by a novel protein family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Modulators (GEMs). As a Postdoctoral Researcher with Professor Alice Ting at Stanford University, his current research focuses on developing a new system for programmable and user-controlled cellular behaviors for immuno-oncology applications.
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Saswati Karmakar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
BioSaswati Karmakar obtained her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She pursued her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, working on the molecular characterization of pancreatic cancer stem cells and their contribution to cancer initiation and progression. Then, she moved to Stanford University with the National Cancer Institute's F99/K00 award for a postdoctoral position in Monte Winslow's lab. Saswati's current research explores the role of tumor suppressor genes in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis.
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Wen-yang Lin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe broad goal of my research interest is to identify intrinsic and extrinsic mediators of tumor growth and plasticity. My past research experiences will synergize with the expertise of Dr. Monte Winslow’s laboratory to allow the discovery of novel mechanisms of cancer progression. The integration of our molecular measurements with multiple types of ‘omics’ data will ultimately improve the diagnostic precision medicine.
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Lorraine Ling
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on the cell biology and biochemistry underlying the symbiotic relationship between corals and their partners, microscopic algae of the genus Symbiodinium. The algae live in the coral's gut tissue and provide its host products of photosynthesis while the coral provides inorganic carbon, nitrogen, and a safe habitat. I'm investigating the signaling pathways involved in 1) recognizing the correct algae partner 2) transfer of nutrients between the two.
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Wei Qin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsChemical Proteomics with spatial and temporal resolution
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Ekanath Srihari Rangan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWearable medical systems for non-invasive and pervasive health monitoring in cardiovascular and critical care contexts; Correlation of genomic aspects of disease with phenotypic data from electronic health records; Informatics and machine learning for precise detection and early warning of infectious diseases; Preemptive protocols for managing disease severity trajectories; And IoT based Telemedicine.
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Han Sun
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Biostatistician 2, Pediatrics - EndocrinologyBioHan had been a postdoc with Dr. Steinmetz at the genetics department for five years, working on both cancers and heart diseases, trying to understand the mechanisms linking from variants to disease phenotypes. This led to a few very interesting findings of aberrant splicing regulation, such as splicing-mediated readthrough stabilization (SRS), one more mechanism for oncogene activation in multiple types of cancers, and tissue-specific splicing of a mitochondrial inner membrane protein, suggesting a molecular connection between deficiency in energy-supplying and dilated cardiomyopathy.
After being a senior computational biologist with Dr. Gloyn, who has been dedicated to the research of type 2 diabetes for decades, Han switched to the field of this multifactorial metabolic disease. It did take some courage to make such a switch at his post-postdoc stage, however, Han has a consistent interest in studying PG&E, which is not pacific gas and electric nearby, but the interaction between phenotype, genotype, and environment. With years of hands-on experience in statistical modeling and the analysis of next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry data, in addition to a good understanding of disease genetics, cancer biology, and systems biology, Han is highly confident that he will enjoy the adventure and contribute to our understanding of diabetes.
