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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\"."},{"lastName":"Schvarzstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9884&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mara Schvarzstein","firstName":"Mara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mara_Schvarzstein","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3853&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Man-Wah Tan","firstName":"Man-Wah","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Man-Wah_Tan","researchInterest":"Genome-wide analysis of host-pathogen interactions using a bacteria-C. elegans pathogenesis model; molecular mechanisms of virulence of bacterial pathogens; regulation of host-pathogen interactions by fatty acids and the nervous system; elucidate the distinctions in the regulation of immunity, stress and longevity."},{"lastName":"Villeneuve","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4035&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anne Villeneuve","firstName":"Anne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anne_Villeneuve","researchInterest":"Mechanisms underlying homologous chromosome pairing, DNA recombination and chromosome remodeling during meiosis, using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an experimental system.  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Role of protease inhibitors in regulating sperm activation."},{"lastName":"Bessler","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jessica Bessler","firstName":"Jessica","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jessica_Bessler","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Clark","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8632&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Damon Clark","firstName":"Damon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Damon_Clark","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9524&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andy Chang","firstName":"Andy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andy_Chang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Goodman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3813&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Miriam B. 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We also collaborate with Pruitt's group in Mechanical Engineering to develop and fabricate novel devices for the study of sensory transduction."},{"lastName":"Yoo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10159&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Yoo","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Yoo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Lamm","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9706&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ayelet Lamm (Margalit)","firstName":"Ayelet-Taly","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ayelet-Taly_Lamm","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Carroll","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9403&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christopher Carroll","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Carroll","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Berlin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9330&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dorit Berlin","firstName":"Dorit","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dorit_Berlin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Qiu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10272&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peng Qiu","firstName":"Peng","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peng_Qiu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sahoo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10888&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debashis Sahoo","firstName":"Debashis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Debashis_Sahoo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pak","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9061&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Julia Pak","firstName":"Julia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Julia_Pak","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pollack","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6066&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jonathan Pollack","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jonathan_Pollack","researchInterest":"Our laboratory uses genomics approaches to explore patterns of gene expression and gene copy number alteration in both human cancer cell line model systems and in tumors, with the goals of better understanding cancer, and developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies."},{"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/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":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"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/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":"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/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":"Brunet","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6012&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anne Brunet","firstName":"Anne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anne_Brunet","researchInterest":"Our lab studies the molecular basis of longevity. We are interested in the mechanism of action of known longevity genes, including FOXO and SIRT, in the mammalian nervous system. We are particularly interested in the role of these longevity genes in neural stem cells. We are also discovering novel genes and processes involved in aging using two model systems, the invertebrate C. elegans and an extremely short-lived vertebrate, the African killifish N. furzeri."},{"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/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":"Mahjoub","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=9545&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mohamed Mahjoub","firstName":"Mohamed","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mohamed_Mahjoub","researchInterest":"Cilia are microtubule-based organelles that provide cells with diverse organization and motility functions. Defects in the assembly and function of cilia lead to a range of human diseases referred to as ciliopathies. The Stearns lab have analyzed the transcriptional profile of tracheal epithelial cells during ciliogenesis, and identified many up-regulated genes. I am investigating the role of Cep120, a potential key player in the processes of centriole biogenesis and ciliogenesis."},{"lastName":"Valenzano","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9499&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dario Riccardo Valenzano","firstName":"Dario","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dario_Valenzano","researchInterest":""}]}