Dr. Philip Beachy's lab studies the function of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis (pattern formation) and in injury repair and regeneration (pattern maintenance). They study how the distribution of such signals is regulated in tissues, how cells perceive and respond to distinct concentrations of signals, and how such signaling pathways arose in evolution. They also study the normal roles of such signals in stem-cell physiology and their abnormal roles in the formation and expansion of cancer stem cells.

Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Tobias Meyer
Talk Title: Genetic Analysis of Endothelial Wound Closure Reveals Distinct Signaling Modules Controlling Would Dependent and Independent Cell Migration
Event: The American Society for Cell Biology 2008

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisors: Hanlee Ji and Emma Brunskill
Talk Title: CrowdVariant: a crowdsourcing approach to classify copy number variants
Event: Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2017
Faculty Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: Graph convolutional networks can encode three-dimensional genome architecture in deep learning models for genomics
Event: 12th Women in Machine Learning Workshop<

Dr. Peter Tass investigates and develops neuromodulation techniques for understanding and treating neurologic conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, dysfunction following stroke and tinnitus. He creates invasive and non-invasive therapeutic procedures by means of comprehensive computational neuroscience studies and advanced data analysis techniques. The computational neuroscience studies guide experiments that use clinical electrophysiology measures, such as high density EEG recordings and MRI imaging, and various outcome measures.