TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - Key Persons
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- Research Specialist, 2017 - 2018 )
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- Member of the Admissions Committee
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- Member of the Admissions Committee
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- Emily Fabyanic ( Graduate Student, Pharmacology, 2017 - 2021 )
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- NGG. Merit Review Officer PCORI
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- Program Coordinator
- CAMB Office Administrator
[Arjun](https://arjun-bhattacharya.com/) was jointly mentored with Dr. [Bogdan Pasaniuc](https://bogdan.dgsom.ucla.edu/pages/). Arjun graduated with a PhD in Biostatistics from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020, supervised by Mike Love in Biostatistics and Melissa Troester in Epidemiology. Arjun is interested in developing statistical methods for genetic association and epidemiological studies and implement them to understand how biological heterogeneity influences health outcomes and disparities in cancer and neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- PennPORT Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Career Development Coordinator
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- DRSB. Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard, Ginty Lab, K Award Recipient
Chloe is an MD/PhD student at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. She is conducting her PhD with Jake Gratten and Naomi Wray investigating genomic biomarkers of ASD.
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- Lab Manager
- Research Specialist
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- Bioinformatics PhD Student
Cindy received a BS from Cornell University in Computational Biology and is a member of the UCLA Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary PhD Program. She joined the Gandal UCLA lab in 2020. She is working to comprehensively characterize principles of gene regulation in the developing brain human and its relationship with genetic risk for neuropsychiatric GWAS.
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- Data Analyst
- Research Staff Member
Connor graduated from UCLA in 2020 with a BS in Computational and Systems Biology. He is interested in cloud computing, long read sequencing, and running really really long distances.
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- Chairman
- CAMB Vice Chair & GTV Interim Chair
- Interim Chair, Gene Therapy and Vaccines ( GTV ) Program
- Interim Program Chair
- Vice Chair, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group
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- CAMB Chair
- Chairman, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group
Daniel received his BS in Computational and Systems Biology from UCLA and a Masters in Bioinformatics. Daniel joined the Gandal lab as an undergraduate research assistant and has since stayed on as a full time Data Analyst. He is interested in machine learning, big data approaches to genomics, and living on the reverse light-dark cycle.
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- GTV Vice Chair
- Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Hematology )
- Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Hematology ) Department: Pediatrics / Graduate Group
- Vice Chair, Gene Therapy and Vaccines ( GTV ) Program
- Vice Program Chair
To help first and second year students navigate the program, the following faculty are also available to advise.
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- Member of the Admissions Committee
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- Member of the Lab
- Research Specialist
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- Vice Chair
- Vice Chair, Cancer Biology ( CB ) Program
- Vice Program Chair
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- Chairman of the Admissions Committee
- Chairman of the Curriculum Committee
- Program Chair
- CB Chair
- Chairman, Cancer Biology ( CB ) Program
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Assistant Professor
- UCLA Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division As a Health Sciences Clinical Instructor
Dr. Gil Hoftman recently joined the UCLA Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division as a Health Sciences Clinical Instructor. His goal is to become an independent investigator leading an innovative and prolific research program studying the molecular mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, with an emphasis on understanding the cell and circuit specific developmental trajectories of these key molecular components. The underlying motivation for studying the development and dysfunction of cognitive control in schizophrenia is to improve patients' lives by identifying biologically informed, innovative approaches to treat cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and by ideally preventing or delaying the premorbid developmental lag in cognitive control and the onset of psychosis in people with schizophrenia. In particular, he is passionate about understanding complex brain disorders like schizophrenia by using integrative, complementary approaches. One strategy for understanding the pathophysiology of a multifaceted syndrome like schizophrenia is to study the normal development of affected brain circuitry central to the disorder. At UCLA, he plans to pursue studies of both typical and pathological neurodevelopment by leveraging novel, integrative neurobehavioral genetics and neuroimaging approaches.
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- Member of the Admissions Committee
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- Associate Professor of Genetics
- Representative to CAMB Curriculum Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Chairman
- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine ) Department: Medicine / Graduate Group
Education:
AB (Biochemical Sciences)
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
PhD (Biomedical Sciences)
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 2003.
MD (Medicine)
Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 2004.
MPH (Epidemiology)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 2009.
ML (Law)
Dr. Leanna Hernandez is a neuroscientist investigating how genetic and environmental factors impact neurodevelopmental trajectories and predispose to pediatric/adolescent-onset psychiatric disorders, including autism and schizophrenia. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her postdoctoral research in the Gandal Lab examines how genetic variants associated with cross-disorder psychiatric disease risk affect structural brain development and clinically-relevant phenotypes in >11,000 youth from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD). She employs a variety of methods including statistical genetics, magnetic resonance imaging, and behavioral phenotyping.
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- Member of the Advising Committee
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- Chairman of the Advising Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Advising Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Program Chair
- Chairman, Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology ( MVP ) Program
- MVP Chair
- Professor of Microbiology / Department: Microbiology / Graduate Group
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Program Chair
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- Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor
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- Vice Chair, Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology ( MVP ) Program
- Vice Program Chair
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- Graduate Student ( CAMB - MVP CAMB T32 Training Grant )
Originally from Japan, Emma received a BS and MS in Health Sciences from University of Tsukuba. Emma joined the lab in 2022 and has been working on a large-scale autism biobank GWAS project.
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- Member of the Lab
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023
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- Combined Degree Admissions Chair
- Professor of Neuroscience / Department: Neuroscience / Graduate Group
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- Graduate Student ( CAMB - MVP Diversity Supplement )
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- Research Specialist, 2018 - 2020 )
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- Member of the Lab
- Research Associate Professor, 2022 - )
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- PennPORT Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Program Coordinator
- CAMB Office Administrator
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- CAMB Student Representative
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- CAMB Graduate Student ( DSRB )
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- CAMB Student Representative
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- PennPORT Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Undergraduate Student ( FERBS Fellow )
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- Member of the Curriculum Committee
- Student Rep Resentative
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- Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow
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- Program Chair
- Chairman, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology ( DSRB ) Program
- DSRB Chair
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology / Department: Cell and Developmental Biology / Graduate Group
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- Postdoctoral Fellow ( Co - Mentored With Igor Brodsky )
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- Associate Director
- CAMB Office Administrator
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- NGG. Current Position: Technical Sales Specialist, ThermoFisher Scientific
Miao received her Medicine degree in Sun Yat-sen University, China and her Ph.D. in Medicine from Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Her current research focuses on understanding the susceptibility of cell types to psychiatric disorders in human brain, via integration of large-scale scRNA-seq atlases and population genetics studies. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming.
Michael received in BS in Computational and Systems Biology from UCLA and then matriculated in the MD/PhD Program at UCLA. He is jointly mentored by Dan Geschwind.
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- CAMB. Current Position: Assistant Professor of MCB, Yale University
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- Postdoctoral Fellow ( AHA Fellowship )
Originally from South Korea, Minsoo received a BS in Applied & Computational Mathematics + Bioengineering from Caltech. He matriculated into the MSTP program at UCLA and joined the Gandal Lab in the Fall of 2018 as part of the Genetics and Genomics Program. He is currently interested in investigating the neuro-immune signaling pathway of neurodevelopmental diseases. In his pastime, he watches Tarantino movies while listening to Drake to get inspired.
Pan received his B.S. in Biotechnology from Lanzhou University, China and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China. He is broadly interested in exploring functional genomics data to study the molecular mechanisms through which genetic variants contribute to complex traits. His current research focuses on understanding the link between common genome structural variants and psychiatric disorders. To do so, he mainly uses computational approaches to identify dysregulated endophenotypes at different levels. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and road trips.
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- Member of the Lab
- Research Associate, 2018 - )
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- Graduate Student ( CAMB - MVP Penn Presidential Fellowship )
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- NGG. Current Position: Translational Scientist, INCYTE Pharmaceuticals
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- Member of the Lab
- Research Specialist
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- Member of the Admissions Committee
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- Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
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- Administrative Coordinator
- CAMB Office Administrator
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- CAMB Graduate Student ( DSRB )
Sarah received a B.S. in Biology and Spanish from the University of Michigan. After years of working in industry, she joined the lab in 2023. Outside of her interest in the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders, she also enjoys distance running and studying languages.
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- Graduate Student ( IGG NSF Fellowship )
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- Postdoctoral Fellow ( Co - Mentored With Igor Brodsky )
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- Undergraduate Student ( Vagelos Scholar )
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- Student Representative to CAMB Curriculum Committee
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- Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, University of Arkansas
Timothy A. Evans, Celine Santiago, Elise Arbeille and Greg J. Bashaw: Robo2 acts in trans to inhibit Slit-Robo1 repulsion in pre-crossing commissural axons. eLife. eLife Sciences,(doi: 10.7554/eLife.08407), 1-25, July 2015 Notes: The following authors contributed equally to this work Timothy A. Evans, Celine Santiago
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- Graduate Student ( IGG NSF Fellowship )
Yeda received his MD from Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in China and his PhD in Statistical Genetics at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia under the supervision of Drs. Peter Visscher and Naomi Wray.
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- Member of the Lab
- Visiting Scholar, 2023 - )
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- Member of the Lab
- Research Specialist
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- Chairman
- Program Chair
- Chairman, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Metabolism ( CPM ) Program