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Elph\u00e8ge Nora<\/strong> – Principal investigator<\/h5>\nelphege.nora_at_ucsf.edu<\/strong>
Not sure how to pronounce my name?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nElph\u00e8ge \u00a0obtained his Ph.D. from the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud in France after doing research on X-chromosome inactivation in the laboratory of Pr. Edith Heard<\/a> at the Curie Institute. He then moved to San Francisco for a post-doctoral training with Pr. Benoit Bruneau<\/a> at the Gladstone Institute, where he applied genome engineering to study the functions of proteins involved in chromosome organization and gene regulation in embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\nSince 2019 he leads a research group in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California in San Francisco. The goal of the group is to decipher and engineer the molecular processes used by cells to organize their genome in the nucleus, and understand how this enables the regulation of gene activity in developmental and disease contexts. Read his work here<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Erika Anderson<\/strong> – Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h5>\nerika.anderson_at_ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nErika\u00a0 joined summer 2019. She graduated from Indiana University, where she studied the control of meiosis in fungi in the laboratories of Mimi Zolan<\/a> and Soni Lacefield<\/a>. She then completed her PhD with Pr. Barbara Meyer<\/a> at the University of California, Berkeley, where she investigated how chromatin folding influences X chromosome dosage compensation, as well as aging, in\u00a0<\/span>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em>. In her free time, Erika enjoys playing the carillon, running, and hiking.\u00a0<\/span>Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/h5>\nrini.shah_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nRini joined fall 2020. She obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, where she investigated the mechanisms governing transcriptional regulation of human XIST in the laboratory of Pr. Sanjeev Galande<\/a>. Prior to joining the Nora Lab, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Pr. Frederick Alt<\/a> at the Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, focusing on the molecular aspects of antibody class-switch recombination. Her broad research interest is to understand the dynamics and impact of genome architecture in the context of development. When not thinking about loop extrusion, Rini enjoys reading books, exploring restaurants, running, and hiking. \u00a0Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/noralab.ucsf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6321-1-scaled.jpg\")
Fernanda Vargas-Romero – Postdoctoral Scholar<\/h5>\n
Fernanda.vargasromero_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nFernanda joined our team in Spring 2023. She received her Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she discovered her passion for understanding the molecular mechanisms that control stem cell fate decisions. She furthered her research interest by completing her PhD at KAUST (Saudi Arabia), under the supervision of Pr. Wolfgang Fischle<\/a>, where she focused on investigating the roles of linker histones in regulating transcriptional programs and their effect on stem cell differentiation processes. When she is not in the lab, Fernanda enjoys exploring new restaurants, hiking, painting and spending quality time with her dogs. Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/noralab.ucsf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Karissa_cropped-1.jpg\")
Karissa Hansen – Graduate Student<\/h5>\n
karissa.hansen_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nKarissa joined spring 2020. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BS in Biology. Prior to joining the DSCB graduate program at UCSF, she worked as a research associate in the lab of Pr. Licia Selleri<\/a> at UCSF studying genomic control of craniofacial development. The first of her projects used mouse transgenesis to validate and describe orthologous human and chimpanzee cranial neural crest enhancers that were predicted to have species-specific activity. Additionally, she worked on elucidating the gene regulatory networks underlying the outgrowth of the upper jaw and related fusion of the secondary palate using mouse, chicken, and pig as diverse models of this process. Outside of lab she spends her time at local music venues, camping, and baking.\u00a0Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/noralab.ucsf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Paddy.jpg\")
Peize (Paddy) Liu<\/strong> – Graduate Student<\/strong><\/h5>\npeize.liu_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nPaddy joined fall 2024. Prior to joining the Tetrad graduate program at UCSF, he received his Bachelor\u2019s degree from University of Chicago where he worked in the laboratory of Pr. Alexander Ruthenburg<\/a>, building a dCas9-based system for artificially inducing long-distance contacts between chromatin loci to understand the effect of enhancer-promoter proximity on transcription initiation. Outside of lab, Paddy enjoys calisthenics, cooking, listening to music, and exploring new ideas in books and YouTube videos.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Annie Adachi<\/strong> – Research Specialist<\/h5>\nannie.adachi_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\nAnnie joined in summer 2022. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelors in molecular cell biology, neurobiology. While at Berkeley, she developed an interest in neurobiology and neurodegenerative research. She has also participated in organ-on-a-chip research at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles. Outside of the lab, Annie enjoys drawing, baking, and listening to music.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/noralab.ucsf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhoIsThis.jpg\")
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<\/strong><\/h5>\nEmily Arnold<\/b>– \u00a0Staff Research Associate 2019-2022
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next position: Master 2 at the European Magistere of Genetics (Paris, France)<\/p>\nKaite Zhang<\/strong> – rotation student (Tetrad) spring 2023
next position: graduate student in the group of Vijay Ramani (UCSF)<\/p>\nDavid Wen <\/b>– rotation student (DSCB) winter 2023
next position: graduate student in the groups of Christina Theodoris & Seth Shipman (Gladstone Institutes\/UCSF)<\/p>\n
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Kevin Chen<\/strong> – rotation student (DSCB) spring 2022
next position: graduate student in the group of Dan Wagner (UCSF)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Kenya Bonitto <\/strong>– rotation student (Tetrad) winter 2022
next position: graduate student in the group of Davide Ruggero (UCSF)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Yashodara (Yash) Abeykoon<\/strong> – rotation student (BMS) spring 2020
next position: graduate student in the group of Alex Pollen (UCSF)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Ali Palla<\/strong> – rotation student (Tetrad) spring 2020
next position: graduate student in the group of Danica Galoni\u0107 Fujimori<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Deani Lyons <\/strong>– high school intern (CURE program) summer 2022
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Kevin Lin <\/strong>– undergraduate volunteer summer 2021
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Elph\u00e8ge \u00a0obtained his Ph.D. from the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud in France after doing research on X-chromosome inactivation in the laboratory of Pr. Edith Heard<\/a> at the Curie Institute. He then moved to San Francisco for a post-doctoral training with Pr. Benoit Bruneau<\/a> at the Gladstone Institute, where he applied genome engineering to study the functions of proteins involved in chromosome organization and gene regulation in embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\n Since 2019 he leads a research group in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California in San Francisco. The goal of the group is to decipher and engineer the molecular processes used by cells to organize their genome in the nucleus, and understand how this enables the regulation of gene activity in developmental and disease contexts. Read his work here<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n erika.anderson_at_ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Erika\u00a0 joined summer 2019. She graduated from Indiana University, where she studied the control of meiosis in fungi in the laboratories of Mimi Zolan<\/a> and Soni Lacefield<\/a>. She then completed her PhD with Pr. Barbara Meyer<\/a> at the University of California, Berkeley, where she investigated how chromatin folding influences X chromosome dosage compensation, as well as aging, in\u00a0<\/span>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em>. In her free time, Erika enjoys playing the carillon, running, and hiking.\u00a0<\/span>Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n rini.shah_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Rini joined fall 2020. She obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, where she investigated the mechanisms governing transcriptional regulation of human XIST in the laboratory of Pr. Sanjeev Galande<\/a>. Prior to joining the Nora Lab, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Pr. Frederick Alt<\/a> at the Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, focusing on the molecular aspects of antibody class-switch recombination. Her broad research interest is to understand the dynamics and impact of genome architecture in the context of development. When not thinking about loop extrusion, Rini enjoys reading books, exploring restaurants, running, and hiking. \u00a0Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n Fernanda.vargasromero_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Fernanda joined our team in Spring 2023. She received her Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she discovered her passion for understanding the molecular mechanisms that control stem cell fate decisions. She furthered her research interest by completing her PhD at KAUST (Saudi Arabia), under the supervision of Pr. Wolfgang Fischle<\/a>, where she focused on investigating the roles of linker histones in regulating transcriptional programs and their effect on stem cell differentiation processes. When she is not in the lab, Fernanda enjoys exploring new restaurants, hiking, painting and spending quality time with her dogs. Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n karissa.hansen_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Karissa joined spring 2020. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BS in Biology. Prior to joining the DSCB graduate program at UCSF, she worked as a research associate in the lab of Pr. Licia Selleri<\/a> at UCSF studying genomic control of craniofacial development. The first of her projects used mouse transgenesis to validate and describe orthologous human and chimpanzee cranial neural crest enhancers that were predicted to have species-specific activity. Additionally, she worked on elucidating the gene regulatory networks underlying the outgrowth of the upper jaw and related fusion of the secondary palate using mouse, chicken, and pig as diverse models of this process. Outside of lab she spends her time at local music venues, camping, and baking.\u00a0Read her work here<\/a><\/p>\n peize.liu_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Paddy joined fall 2024. Prior to joining the Tetrad graduate program at UCSF, he received his Bachelor\u2019s degree from University of Chicago where he worked in the laboratory of Pr. Alexander Ruthenburg<\/a>, building a dCas9-based system for artificially inducing long-distance contacts between chromatin loci to understand the effect of enhancer-promoter proximity on transcription initiation. Outside of lab, Paddy enjoys calisthenics, cooking, listening to music, and exploring new ideas in books and YouTube videos.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n annie.adachi_at_ ucsf.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n Annie joined in summer 2022. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelors in molecular cell biology, neurobiology. While at Berkeley, she developed an interest in neurobiology and neurodegenerative research. She has also participated in organ-on-a-chip research at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles. Outside of the lab, Annie enjoys drawing, baking, and listening to music.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emily Arnold<\/b>– \u00a0Staff Research Associate 2019-2022 \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former rotation students<\/strong><\/p>\n Gabrielle Maillard<\/strong> – Master 1 from the European Magistere of Genetics (Paris, France) spring-summer 2024 Sarina Ehteshamzadeh Ganjbakhsh <\/strong>– rotation student (Tetrad) spring 2024<\/p>\n Tayma Handal <\/strong>– rotation student (DSCB) fall 2024<\/p>\n Iri\u00e9 Carel<\/strong> – Master 1 from the European Magistere of Genetics (Paris, France) spring-summer 2023 Kaite Zhang<\/strong> – rotation student (Tetrad) spring 2023 David Wen <\/b>– rotation student (DSCB) winter 2023 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kevin Chen<\/strong> – rotation student (DSCB) spring 2022 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kenya Bonitto <\/strong>– rotation student (Tetrad) winter 2022 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yashodara (Yash) Abeykoon<\/strong> – rotation student (BMS) spring 2020 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ali Palla<\/strong> – rotation student (Tetrad) spring 2020 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former undergraduate interns<\/strong><\/p>\n Valerie Rodrigues<\/strong> – high school intern (CURE program) summer 2023 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deani Lyons <\/strong>– high school intern (CURE program) summer 2022 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kevin Lin <\/strong>– undergraduate volunteer summer 2021 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are grateful to the past and current funding organizations that are enabling our research, past and current:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n National Science Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Hellman Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Elph\u00e8ge Nora – Principal investigator elphege.nora_at_ucsf.eduNot sure how to pronounce my name? 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next position: graduate student at the University of Southern California with Pr. Derrick Morton<\/a><\/p>\n
next position: Master 2 at the European Magistere of Genetics (Paris, France)<\/p>\n
next position: Master 2 at the European Magistere of Genetics (Paris, France)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the group of Vijay Ramani (UCSF)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the groups of Christina Theodoris & Seth Shipman (Gladstone Institutes\/UCSF)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the group of Dan Wagner (UCSF)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the group of Davide Ruggero (UCSF)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the group of Alex Pollen (UCSF)<\/p>\n
next position: graduate student in the group of Danica Galoni\u0107 Fujimori<\/p>\n
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