Principal Investigator
Erez Lieberman Aiden, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: Ambassador for the scientists named below
Area of Work: I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, where I direct the Center for Genome Architecture, and in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University across the street.
Lab Members
Shibali Patra
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: Research Administrator with a demonstrated history of working in higher education. Skilled in Pre-award and Post-award management with expertise in proposal development, SAP, Financial Analysis, International research collaborations and Team Building.
Mahdi Sadr
Describe yourself in 6 words: Biomedical Engineer. Aspiring future Neurologist/Scientist.
Area of work: I focus mainly on chromatin subcompartments. Either by finding new ways to visualize them or to classify them using ML.
Alyssa Blackburn
Describe yourself in 6 words: Programmer, big data scientist, and root.
Area of work:
Ivan Bochkov
Describe yourself in 6 words: Aspiring human geneticist. Go, do, achieve!
Area of work: Experimental biology. I'm studying three-dimensional DNA structures using genomewide chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
Olga Dudchenko, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: No fan of six word descriptions
Area of work: Spread out somewhere in between biophysics, nonlinear dynamics, telemedicine and molecular genetics.
Ragini Mahajan
Describe yourself in 6 words: I ask a lot of questions..?
Area of work: All things nuclear architecture across human anatomy.
Saul Godinez
Describe yourself in 6 words: Science is just like a dance
Area of work: Wet lab experimentalist. HiC tech development, Data productions for several things. Data analysis.
Huiya Gu
Describe yourself in 6 words: Biochemist, being interested in human genetics
Area of work: I am working on using Hi-C to solve clinical problems.
Xiaxoue Tian
Describe yourself in 6 words: a fan of life
Area of work: An experimenter exploring Hi-C technologies.
Dimos Gkountaroulis, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: Topologist with a taste for biology
Area of work: Applied topology, computational biology and everything in between.
Galina Aglyamova
Describe yourself in 6 words: asking questions, finding answers, irony, friends
Area of work: Trying to understand what and how regulates gene expression.
David Weisz
Describe yourself in 6 words: Ask chatGPT.
Area of work: HPC, DNAZoo, ENCODE, and all things compute!
Suhas Rao, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: Biologist, Applied Mathematician, Boston sports fan
Area of work: I work on understanding how the genome folds, the relationship between chromatin structure and gene regulation, and the disorganization of the genome in various diseases through the intersection of experimental and computational biology.
Moshe Olshanksy, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: POSSUM, Big matrix normalization
Per Aspera Adastra
Describe yourself in 6 words: I work on the small stuff!
Area of work: I work on using genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) to study biological phenomena. I also spend some of my time trying understand mechanisms by which chromatin architecture arises and is maintained.
Adrian Sanborn
Describe yourself in 6 words: Enjoys playing flute, laughing too loudly
Area of work: I focus on understanding the folding tendencies of chromatin using mathematical and physical models.
Muhammad Saad Shamim, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: Programming and medicine. Aspiring Physician Scientist
Area of work: I work on a variety of computational projects ranging from bioinformatics and data visualization to perception and augmented reality.
Ruqayya Khan
Describe yourself in 6 words: Knows too many animal fun facts
Area of work: Experimentalist & JuiceBox Assembly Tools pro for the DNA Zoo assembly team.
Weijie Yao
Describe yourself in 6 words: Dude... this tuna smells fishy ya'll
Area of work: I optimize and utilize high throughput genomic experiments, including Hi-C, to tour the 3-D layout of genomes in various organisms.