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Appendix D: Speaker Biographies
Pages 175-184

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From page 175...
... , the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program, the Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, and others. Following graduate school, they were a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the Genetics Department where they worked closely with another postdoc to understand the genetic liabilities associated with three-dimensional growth in cancer spheroid models.
From page 176...
... , Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Stanford University, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct staff member at the Carnegie Institution Department of Plant Biology.
From page 177...
... These communities show reproducible and dynamic patterns of community formation that depend on widespread interactions between species. The lab is now developing genetic, cell biological, and chemical approaches to studying species interactions in this model microbial community.
From page 178...
... and postdoctoral training, she developed computational approaches to characterize transcriptional regulation using multimodal -omics data. Sean Hanlon, Ph.D., is the acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's)
From page 179...
... They leverage the comprehensive genetic and genomic toolkit of the threespine stickleback fish to bridge the gap between the lab and the wild. Using chromatin profiling, comparative epigenomics, transcriptomics, and transgenic approaches, one of their major projects focuses on how the regulatory genome contributes to adaptive evolution and speciation.
From page 180...
... He has been studying the brains of nudibranch molluscs for more than 25 years, initially as a research assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He is currently funded by a National Institutes of Health BRAIN award to determine the full brain connectome of the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae, which has only 4,000 neurons.
From page 181...
... She is the founding director of the Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute, and the founding co-chair of the international initiative to build a Human Cell Atlas, whose mission is to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells -- the fundamental units of life -- as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease. Her lab has been a pioneer of single-cell genomics -- inventing key experimental methods and computational algorithms in the field and demonstrating how to apply it to understand cell taxonomies, histological organization, differentiation, and physiological processes, and how to infer the molecular and cellular circuits that control the function of cells and tissues in health and disease.
From page 182...
... Prior to joining NYGC, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he developed new methods for single-cell analysis. Saurabh Sinha, Ph.D., is a professor of computer science and the Carl R
From page 183...
... He is an active member of his research community, is in the core organizing team for numerous conferences, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. Francois Spitz, Ph.D., is a professor at The University of Chicago and studies the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that control gene expression during vertebrate development, with a specific emphasis on the interplay between the structural organization of the genome and gene regulation.
From page 184...
... Tavares served at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Science & Technology Policy Fellow. In his role, he helped to identify and support emerging and innovative solutions to cancer research problems and managed interdisciplinary trans-institute/agency grant programs.


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