{"result":[{"lastName":"Maynard","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9842&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nathaniel Maynard","firstName":"Nathaniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Nathaniel_Maynard","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4284&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick O. Brown","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Patrick_Brown","researchInterest":"Dr. Brown's research group uses diverse experimental and computational methods to investigate the logic and mechanisms that control a genome's expression program.  The Brown laboratory is systematically characterizing the genetic scripts that control the expression of our genes, in normal development and physiology and in diseases like cancer, with a particular focus on post-transcriptional regulation. The Brown lab also develops strategies and assays for early detection and diagnosis of cancer."},{"lastName":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Davis","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Ronald_Davis","researchInterest":"We are using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. We 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."},{"lastName":"Fraser","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15112&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hunter Fraser","firstName":"Hunter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Hunter_Fraser","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Falkow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4488&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stanley Falkow","firstName":"Stanley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Stanley_Falkow","researchInterest":"Dr. Falkow is no longer taking students or postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory.  \r\n\r\nPlease contact either Denise Monack (dmonack@stanford.edu) or Manuel Amieva (amieva@stanford.edu)."},{"lastName":"Sherlock","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5864&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gavin Sherlock","firstName":"Gavin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Gavin_Sherlock","researchInterest":"Evolution and the adaptive landscape using yeast as a model; Defining yeast transcriptomes; chromosomal evolution in hybrid yeast species; genome database for Candida albicans; genome database for Aspergilli; the Stanford Microarray Database; The Tuberculosis Database; bioinformatics tools for analysing expression data."},{"lastName":"Hershberg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10299&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ruth Hershberg","firstName":"Ruth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Ruth_Hershberg","researchInterest":"The aim of my research is to investigate the mechanisms, frequency, and consequences of the evolutionary shifts experienced by bacteria. Some more specific areas of research include:\r\n\r\n(1)  Quantifying shifts in the strength of purifying selection and understanding the consequences of such shifts\r\n \r\n(2)  Determining whether shifts in nucleotide content are driven by shifts in mutation or shifts in selection\r\n\r\n(3)  Establishing the mechanisms of shifts in codon usage bias"},{"lastName":"Kalisky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10137&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tomer Kalisky","firstName":"Tomer","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Tomer_Kalisky","researchInterest":"Single cell gene expression, cancer stem cells, biological networks, systems biology"},{"lastName":"Flaherty","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10273&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick Flaherty","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Patrick_Flaherty","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Miyahira","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10641&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrea K. (Perry) Miyahira","firstName":"Andrea","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Andrea_Miyahira","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Butte","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Atul Butte","firstName":"Atul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Atul_Butte","researchInterest":"Translational bioinformatics has been defined as the development of analytic\r\nmethods to help transform increasingly voluminous genomic and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for the clinician.  The long-term research goal of the Butte Lab is to develop translational bioinformatics methods to reason over many available genome-scale measurement and experimental modalities, and apply these methods to study complex disorders in genomic medicine, especially obesity and diabetes."},{"lastName":"Matin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4329&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"AC Matin","firstName":"AC","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/AC_Matin","researchInterest":"1. Improvement of our newly discovered cancer prodrug regimen that permits noninvaisve visualization of drug activation. 2. Tracking tumors & cancer metastases using bacterial magnetite. 3. Molecular basis of bacterial planktonic and biofilm antibiotic resistance on Earth and under space microgravity; 4. Bioremediation."},{"lastName":"Cherry","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4249&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mike Cherry","firstName":"JMichael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/JMichael_Cherry","researchInterest":"The focus of my group is the application of bioinformatics to the collection and dissemination genetic, genomic and cellular  information. We abstracts the published results into our database, SGD. We explore the volumes of information that have been elucidated for the budding yeast S. cerevisiae.  My research is the applied use computers and databases: designing a resource to effectively provide biological information to the research community, and the development of the Gene Ontology."},{"lastName":"Cohen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4481&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stanley N. Cohen, MD","firstName":"Stanley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Stanley_Cohen","researchInterest":"We study the functional and structural signals that govern mRNA decay and gene expression in bacteria, as well as mechanisms affecting aging and the ability of mammalian cells to support the propagation of viruses.  A small bioinformatics team within our lab has developed knowledge based systems to aid in investigations of gene expression on a genome-wide basis."},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Statistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6454&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wing Wong","firstName":"Wing","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Wing_Wong","researchInterest":"Current interest centers on the application of statistics to problems arsing from biology. We are particularly interested in questions concerning gene regulation and signal transduction."},{"lastName":"McAdams","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4403&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Harley McAdams","firstName":"Harley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Harley_McAdams","researchInterest":"Experimental and theoretical analysis and modeling of genetic regulatory circuits, particularly bacterial regulation and with emphasis on global regulation of Caulobacter crescentus. Bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes, of microarray expression patterns, and cross-species genomic analysis. Techniques: gene expression microarrays, fluorescent microscopy, electron microscopy."},{"lastName":"Smith","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7014&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kendric C. Smith","firstName":"Kendric","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Kendric_Smith","researchInterest":"The photochemistry and radiation chemistry of DNA, the genetic control and biochemical bases of the multiple pathways of DNA repair, and the roles of DNA repair processes in radiation and spontaneous mutagenesis. Over 190 papers have been published on these and related topics."},{"lastName":"Tompkins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"hospital epidemiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lucy Tompkins","firstName":"Lucy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Lucy_Tompkins","researchInterest":"Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Helicobacter infection. Molecular epidemiology, hospital epidemiology."},{"lastName":"Yanofsky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6252&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Charles Yanofsky","firstName":"Charles","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Charles_Yanofsky","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Liu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9664&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chih Long Liu","firstName":"Chih","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Chih_Liu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Campbell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6212&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Allan Campbell","firstName":"Allan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Allan_Campbell","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pride","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9162&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Pride","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/David_Pride","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Diehn","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9248&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maximilian Diehn, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Maximilian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Maximilian_Diehn","researchInterest":"My lab focuses on cancer stem cell biology and its implications for cancer therapy. We are interested in developing a deeper molecular understanding of cancer stem cells, including identifying pathways and genes important for proliferation and self renewal. We also study these processes in normal adult stem cells in order to identify differences that could be exploited therapeutically. The goal of our studies is the development of novel therapeutic strategies for eliminating cancer stem cells."},{"lastName":"Relman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4005&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David A. 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Our goal is to define these mechanisms using both molecular genetics and biochemistry."}]}