C2B2 - Key Persons
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- Research Scientist
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Aakash Saha is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Honig Lab. He earned his PhD in Computational Chemistry and Biophysics from the Palermo Lab at the University of California, Riverside, where his research focused on "Unraveling the Mechanism of Activation and Functioning of CRISPR-Cas12a and CRISPR-Cas9-Conjugated Systems." Aakash has extensive expertise in molecular dynamics simulations and alchemical free energy perturbation methods, particularly in investigating the activation mechanisms of large biomolecular complexes, including CRISPR-Cas systems. His work has also integrated enhanced sampling techniques, advanced graph theory, and Markov State Models to connect conformational dynamics with the functional roles of these complexes. Additionally, he has employed DFT-based QM/MM studies to explore the catalytic mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas12a. During various summer internships, Aakash gained experience in machine learning frameworks such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), applying them to small molecule parameterization and relating permeability in beyond Rule of Five compounds to the conformational space. Before his doctoral studies, Aakash also gained hands-on laboratory experience in animal cell culture, protein purification, and biomaterial fabrication. Currently, he is focusing on the development and application of bioinformatics tools to study virus and human protein-protein interactions.
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- Graduate Research Assistant
- Student ( Medical Scientist Training Program )
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- Director of Systems Biology, SAGE Bionetworks
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- Medicine Cardiology Graduate Student
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Student
- Student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Albert Lee is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics working in the laboratory of Raul Rabadan. He received his BS in molecular, cell, and developmental biology with honors from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 2012, he entered the world of computational biology and was instantly hooked. In 2013, he received his master's in biomedical informatics and decided to pursue further studies in this area by embarking on a journey of the PhD program. His research interest centers on studying cancer and infectious diseases using high-throughput genomic data. He is a 2014-2015 awardee of the Training Grant in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
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- Computational Research Lab Manager
- Research Lab Manager
Alejandro Buendia is a Computational Research Lab Manager in the Rabadan Lab. He previously worked as a data scientist at Microsoft and a research engineer at MIT CSAIL, where he worked on modeling patient trajectories from longitudinal EHR data. He is currently working on modeling the evolution of viruses and immune escape, as well as representation learning over ATAC-seq and RNA-seq data.
Education History
B.A. Computer Science & Mathematics, Columbia University, 2019
Stefan Hegselmann, Alejandro Buendia, Hunter Lang, Monica Agrawal, Xiaoyi Jiang, and David Sontag. TabLLM: Few-shot classification of tabular data with large language models. In 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2023), April 2023.
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- Associate Research Scientist ( Department of Experimental Therapeutics ) Internal Medicine Resident Physician ( Department of Medicine )
Aleksandar Obradovic received his M.D/Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2023, graduating in the Department of Systems Biology under the joint mentorship of Dr. Andrea Califano and Dr. Charles Drake. Dr. Obradovic is currently an associate research scientist in the Columbia Department of Medicine - Divison of Experimental Therapeutics, and a resident physician in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, pursuing development of novel approaches for analysis of single-cell transcriptional, TCR-Seq, and spatial data towards understanding immunologic mechanisms of resistance to checkpoint inhibitors across tumor types and synergistic drug-combination therapies.
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Medical Student, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Alex Penson is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Rabadan Lab. He is searching for traces of disease-causing organisms in genetic data as well as studying the molecular basis of Myelodysplastic syndrome and Hodgkin's lymphoma. He develops computational and statistical methods to efficiently analyze large amounts of genomic data, drawing on skills honed during his doctoral work in high energy physics searching for hypothetical sub-atomic particles called gravitons at the Large Hadron Collider. Between his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, Alex spent a year teaching English in Beijing and north-west Brazil.
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
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- Instructor, Department of Pharmacology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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- Undergraduate Student, Columbia College
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- Associate Research Scientist, Lipkin Lab, Columbia University
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- Technician Assistant / Research
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- Graduate Student, Biomedical Informatics
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Research Staff Member
- Associate Research Scientist / Research
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, Cornell University
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientis
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- Postdoctoral Scientist, Nir Yosef ( UC Berkeley ) and Nadav Ahituv ( UCSF )
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- Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology
Alec attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where he majored in math and graduated from in 2021. When shadowing physicians, he was particularly impacted by meeting sarcoma patients in clinical trials who experienced recovery that would not be possible without the innovation of new treatments. Being able to use his math and programming background to be part of similar cancer research via the Department of Systems Biology has been a major driver of his interest in medicine. He is grateful to the Califano Lab for this opportunity. Now in medical school here at CUIMC, he hopes to bring insights from the clinic to computational research in the lab, and vice versa.
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- Research Fellow, Neal Rosen Lab, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
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- Bioinformatics Scientist, Novartis
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Medical Student, Cornell University / Research Staff / Dean Steuer
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Scientific Research Manager, Computational Immunology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University Medical Center
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- Graduate Student, Augustin Chaintrau Lab
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor in Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center / Research
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Professor, Department of Systems Biology
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine and Systems Biology
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Bioinformatics Scientist, New York Genome Center
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- Graduate Student / Administration
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
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- Genetics and Development Graduate Student
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- Gaduate Student / Research
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- Research Scientist, Rana - Farber Cancer Institute
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
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- Student, Stanford University
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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- Project Manager, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Associate Research Scientist / Research Staff
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Engineer, METSO / Research Staff
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Danish Cancer Society Research Center
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research
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- Genetics & Development Graduate Student
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Michael and Stella Chernow Professor of Urological Oncology
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- Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Research Assistant
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Director, Clinical Data Warehouse
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- Head of Research, New York Structural Biology Center
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- Medical Student, Cornell University / Research Staff / Dean Steuer
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- Computer Science Graduate Student
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( MD / PhD ) Research Staff
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- Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology
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- Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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- Postdoctoral Fellow ( Co - Advised With Prof. Sam Sternberg )
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- Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Senior Computational Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Student, University of Utah
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- Undergraduate Student, Mathematics
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- Graduate Student, Chemistry
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- Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Director of Biointerpretation, Celmatix, Inc
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- Director, Single Cell Core and Columbia Genome Center
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- Pathology & Cell Biology Graduate Student
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Lead Bioinformatician / Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Senior Experimental Scientist / Honig - Shapiro Lab
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- Research Scientist, CRUK, Cambridge University
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- Data Scientist, Expedia Inc
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- Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research
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- Executive Director, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Langone Medical Center
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Research Associate, Jon Maris Lab, Children 's Hospital of Philadelphia
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- Research Scientist
- Senior Experimental Scientist / Honig - Shapiro Lab
Goran Ahlsen is a research scientist, working in the joint group of Barry Honig and Lawrence Shapiro. His research is focused on applying biophysical methods, mainly analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC), in order to understand especially homophilic binding properties between protein molecules and to determine the strength of these bindings. The goal of his research is to gain insight in the binding mechanisms between interacting cell adhesion molecules on the molecular level, using this information to understand the behavior of cells in the processes of development, morphogenesis, and remodeling of tissue. Prior to joining the Honig/Shapiro group, Goran Ahlsen was a postdoctoral scientist in the group of Jonas Blomberg in the Department of Medical Virology, Uppsala University. Goran Ahlsen obtained his PhD from Uppsala University, studying binding and inhibitory properties of a large number of experimental HIV-1 protease inhibitors in the group of Helena Danielson.
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor of Physics, Baptist College of Health Sciences
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- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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- Associate Research Scientist and Head, Cellular Assays, High - Throughput Screening, Columbia Genome Center
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Professor of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology
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- Interim Chair, Department of Systems Biology / Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Helena Rubinstein Professor, Department of Chemistry
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- Graduate Student / Research Staff
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, Rutgers Cancer Institute
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- Senior Computational Scientist / Research Staff
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- Research Associate, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Senior Principal Research Fellow, Beijing Genomics Institute - Shenzhen
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Medical Student ( PhD to MD Program )
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Executive Director, Research Operations
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Sloan Kettering Institute
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- Graduate Student, Chemistry / Research
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- Associate Research Scientist, Department of Dermatology, Columbia University
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- Student / Department Administration
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- Research Associate, McGill University / Research
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- Graduate Student / Research Staff
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- Graduate Student, Eric Greene Lab, Columbia Unviersity
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- Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Research Staff Member
- Staff Associate I
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- Senior Computational Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of California, San Francisco
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
- Assistant Professor of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center Director, Genome Engineering CoLab
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- Junior Informatics Associate, LabAnswer
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student
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- Bioinformatics Scientist, BioMicro Center, MIT
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- Professor, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Research Staff
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research
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- Associate, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
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- Scientific Staff Member
- Undergraduate Researcher
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, CMO Innovation Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Research Scientist, Columbia University Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology
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- Completing MD Portion of Columbia MD / PhD Program
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Senior Experimental Scientist / Honig - Shapiro Lab
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Medical Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Research Staff Member
- Senior Lab Manager
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Senior Experimental Scientist / Honig - Shapiro Lab
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- Senior Consultant, Campell Alliance / Research
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- Associate Research Scientist / Research
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- Programmer, Goldman Sachs
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- Executive Director, Scientific Operations
- Scientific Coordinator
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- Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Biological Sciences
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- Manager, Human Resources and Faculty Affairs
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Researcher / Administration
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- Department Administrator / Department Administration
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Chief Scientific Officer, DarwinHealth
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- Student, Tulane University
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- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
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- Research Scientist
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Martin Carballo-Pacheco is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Systems Biology working in the Vitkup Lab. Before Columbia, he was a postdoc in the deparment of physics and astronomy of the University of Edinburgh, UK. He received a PhD from RWTH Aachen University and the Research Center Jülich in Germany working on simulations of protein aggregation. He is interested in understanding the physics behind living systems and the application of quantitative modeling to biomedical problems including cancer metabolism and the evolution of antimicrobial resistance.
M. Carballo-Pacheco, A.E. Ismail, B. Strodel, On the applicability of force fields to study the aggregation of amyloidogenic peptides using molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 14, 6063-6075 (2018).
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Student / Research
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- Professor, Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology, and Systems Biology
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- Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
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- Associate Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Scientist II, Celgene Corporation
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
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- Vice President, Psychogenics
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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- Lab Manager, Weill Cornell Medicine
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- Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
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- Undergraduate Student, Columbia School of General Studies
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Data Scientist, Taliaz Diagnostics
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Programmer Analyst / Research
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- Senior Experimental Scientist / Honig - Shapiro Lab
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- Professor, Department of Biological Sciences / Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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- Executive Director, Columbia Genome Center
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- Software Engineer, Google
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Clinical Pharmacologist Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Student, College of Physicians & Surgeons
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- Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Student / Research Assistant / Research
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan / Research
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
Included in the Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies PhD Program at CUIMC, with a focus on Cancer Biology. Under the guidance of her co-mentors, Drs. Peter Sims and Peter Canoll, I Abby uses single-cell technologies to study drug treatment effects in brain tumors
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health and Broad Institute
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine
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- Student, Kuriyan Lab, UC Berkeley
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research Staff
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Rzhetsky Lab, University of Chicago
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Scientific Staff Member
- Senior Desktop Administrator
- Senior Desktop Administrator / Research Staff
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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- Senior Lecturer, Ben Gurion University
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- Professor, Department of Genetics and Development
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Associate Director of Operations, Columbia Genome Center
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- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
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- Staff Associate, Operations Manager, Columbia Genome Center
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology ( in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics )
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- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Computer Science Undergraduate Student / Department Administration
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Student, Chemistry
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- Associate Research Scientist / Head, Functional Genomics, High - Throughput Screening, Columbia Genome Center
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Lecturer, the Open University of Israel
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Student, Weill - Cornell Medical Center
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- Senior Computational Scientist
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- Research Staff Member
- Project Manager / Administration
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- Graduate Student, Julio Fernandez Lab
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Research Staff Member
- Staff Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Yale University
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- Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Account Manager, GE Healthcare
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- Adjunct Associate Professor of Systems Biology
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- Department of Biochemistry
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- Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student
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- Helena Rubinstein Professor, Department of Chemistry
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research
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- Graduate Research Assistant
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- Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student / Research Staff
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- Research Associate, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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- Senior Staff Associate I / Lab Manager
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- Data Scientist, Next - Generation Sequencing, Columbia Genome Center
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Director of Systems Pharmacology, DarwinHealth
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- Bioinformatics Scientist, Waksman Genomics Core Facility, Rutgers University
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Graduate Research Assistant ( DSB )
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- Internist, Roger Williams Hospital
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- Medical Student, Tel Aviv University
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- Research Staff Member
- Associate Research Scientist / Research Staff
Alexander Kitaygorodsky is a PhD student in Yufeng Shen's lab. He is interested in the relationship between genetics and human disease, as well as the use of next-generation sequencing techniques to determine damaging variants. His current focus is on implication of structural noncoding variants in birth defects such as congenital heart disease and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The overall goal is a better knowledge of the genetic mechanisms of these diseases, as well as discovery of specific new genetic targets that could be critical in future treatment and prevention.
Prior to working with Dr. Shen, Alexander completed his Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto, studying computer science and molecular genetics. During this time, he also worked in Elisabeth Tillier's lab on using coevolution analysis to discover novel protein-protein interactions, and in Philip M. Kim's lab on prediction of harmful drug combinations.
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research Staff
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- Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Associate
- Research Scientist