Department: Genetics

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  Fire, Andrew 
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Pathology
  Member,  Child Health Research Institute
  Member,  Bio-X
  Professor,  Genetics
  
  Research Interest

  We study natural cellular mechanisms for adapting to genetic change. These include systems activated during normal development and those for detecting and responding to foreign or unwanted genetic activity. Underlying these studies are questions of how a cells can distinguish information as "self" versus "nonself" or "wanted" versus "unwanted".
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  Ford, James 
  Academic Appointments Associate Professor,  Medicine - Oncology
  Member,  Bio-X
  Member,  Stanford Cancer Institute
  Associate Professor,  Genetics
  Associate Professor (By courtesy),  Pediatrics
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Cancer  >  GI Oncology
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers - Genetics
  Research Interest

  Mammalian DNA repair and DNA damage inducible responses; p53 tumor suppressor gene; transcription in nucleotide excision repair and mutagenesis; genetic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to DNAdamage; genetics of inherited cancer susceptibility syndromes and human GI malignancies; clinical cancer genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer and mismatch repair deficient colon cancer.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Francke, Uta 
  Academic Appointments Professor Emeritus,  Genetics
  Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,  Genetics
  Professor,  Pediatrics - Medical Genetics
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Neurogenetics
  • Clinical Genetics
  Research Interest

  Functional consequences and pathogenetic mechanisms of mutations and microdeletions in human neurogenetic syndromes and mouse models. Integration of genomic information into medical care.

  Practices at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Fu, Xu Hua 
  Academic Appointments Ph.D. Student in Genetics, admitted Autumn 2012
  
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  Fuller, Margaret 
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Developmental Biology
  Member,  Stanford Cancer Institute
  Member,  Bio-X
  Professor,  Genetics
  
  Research Interest

  Regulation of stem cell division and self-renewal Cell type specific transcription machinery and regulation of cell differentiation Developmental regulation of cell cycle progression during male meiosis Molecular dissection of the mechanism of cytokinesis.