Human Genome

Karen P. Usdin

Research TopicsShort tandem repeat (STR) tracts or microsatellites make up ~8% of the human genome. Small changes in the number of repeats in some of these STRs…

Jurrien Dean

Research TopicsUsing the mouse as a paradigm, we study the developmental biology of gametogenesis, fertilization and pre-implantation embryogenesis. We investig…

Julie Segre

Research TopicsThe Microbial Genomics Section (MGS) explores the full genetic diversity of human-associated microbiota (bacteria, fungi, viruses) which contribu…

Joseph Rodriguez

Research TopicsWe study how the environment influences expression variability at the single cell level and subsequently how this variability influences cell fat…

Joana A. Vidigal

Research TopicsWe focus our work on the use of mouse genetics, one of the most powerful approaches to understand gene function and regulation in vivo. To this e…

Jason Watts

Research TopicsJason Watts M.D., Ph.D., leads the Transcriptional Responses in Disease Group and holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Genome Integrity and…

James Inglese

Research TopicsDr. Inglese's chemical biology laboratory investigates concepts and strategies to identify molecular modalities targeting genes, proteins, a…

Ivan Ovcharenko

Research TopicsThe Ovcharenko Research Group focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI) methods for the functional characterization of noncoding DNA in …

Hong Xu

Research TopicsMendelian principles have been the cornerstone for identifying nuclear genes in biological and diseases processes and ordering these genes into f…

Haiming Cao

Research TopicsThe broad interest of the Cao group is to understand the complex regulation of energy metabolism and uncover its significance in the pathophysiol…