Principal Investigator
Erez Lieberman Aiden, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: Ambassador for the scientists named below
Area of Work: I am a Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where I direct the Center for Genome Architecture, and a Professor in the Department of Biosciences at Rice University.
Lab Members
Ishawnia Christopher
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: TBD
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.
Alex Ellis
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: TBD
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.
Jiyun Jeong
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: TBD
Natalie Linde
Describe yourself in 6 words: Type 1 diabetic, technically a cyborg
Area of work: Evolutionary analysis of DNA extrusion proteins.
Ragini Mahajan, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: I ask a lot of questions..?
Area of work: All things nuclear architecture across human anatomy.
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.
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.
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.
Mayu Shibata, Ph.D.
Describe yourself in 6 words: TBD
Area of work: TBD
David Weisz
Describe yourself in 6 words: Ask chatGPT.
Area of work: HPC, DNAZoo, ENCODE, and all things compute!