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  • Elisa Mariel Visher

    Elisa Mariel Visher

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsElisa Visher is broadly interested in the (co)evolution of life history strategies, niche breadth, diversification, and adaptability. They use mostly experimental evolution methods in microbial systems to test the predictions and assumptions of theoretical literature. Currently, they am especially interested in understanding the genetics of trade-offs in microbes to better understand patterns of diversity in nature and constraints to adaptation.

  • Douglas Vollrath

    Douglas Vollrath

    Professor of Genetics and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Vollrath lab works to uncover molecular mechanisms relevant to the health and pathology of the outer retina. We study metabolic and other cellular interactions between the glial-like retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and adjacent photoreceptors, with the goals of understanding the pathogenesis of photoreceptor degenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, and developing therapies.

  • Tao Wang (王韬)

    Tao Wang (王韬)

    Research Scientist, Genetics

    Current Role at StanfordPrincipal Investigator, AI for Precision Diabetes Management
    Project Manager & Scientific Co-lead, PsychENCODE Project
    Project Initiator & Clinical Co-lead, Long COVID Clinical RCT with TCM
    Project Initiator & Manager, AI & Wearables Toolkit for Biomedical Sciences
    ENCODE and PsychENCODE Project Data Manager
    Research Scientist, US Veteran Affairs Hospital
    SCGPM HPC System Administrator

  • Shannon White

    Shannon White

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics

    BioHi, I'm Shannon White. I began my postdoctoral fellowship in Michael Snyder's lab in the fall of 2020. I received my PhD from Georgetown University in Tumor Biology in Chunling Yi's lab. My graduate worked explore the signaling and metabolic vulnerabilities of NF2-mutant tumors following YAP/TAZ depletion. My postdoctoral work is exploring the epigenetic hallmarks that contribute to colon cancer progression and drug resistance. I am developing colon organoids derived from pre-cancerous polyp tissue collected from Familial Adenomatous Polyposis patients as a model system to investigate epigenetic and signaling responses to chemoprevention treatments.

  • Monte Winslow

    Monte Winslow

    Associate Professor of Genetics and of Pathology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur laboratory uses genome-wide methods to uncover alterations that drive cancer progression and metastasis in genetically-engineered mouse models of human cancers. We combine cell-culture based mechanistic studies with our ability to alter pathways of interest during tumor progression in vivo to better understand each step of metastatic spread and to uncover the therapeutic vulnerabilities of advanced cancer cells.

  • John Witte

    John Witte

    Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science and of Genetics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Witte lab is a computational group developing and applying novel methods to decipher the mechanisms underlying complex diseases and traits. Recent research includes evaluating polygenic risk scores for trait prediction, investigating the shared genetic basis of cancer and other traits, and genetically adjusting biomarkers (e.g., prostate specific antigen) to improve disease screening.