Dr. Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and of Genetics, a member of Stanford Bio-X, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Rogelio was a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2021. His laboratory works at the interface of mechanistic, synthetic and systems biology to understand and engineer biomedically relevant cellular behaviors.

Dr. Ron Davis's group is using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. They have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion.