{"result":[{"researchInterest":"We are investigating several interrelated phenomena in a primitive chordate, the ascidian Botryllus schlosseri. The lab is located at Stanford\u0092s Hopkins Marine Station on the Monterey Peninsula, where we are studying: 1) allorecognition and the evolutionary origins of different components of the vertebrate immune system; 2) pluripotent, parasitic stem cells; 3) the molecular mechanisms which underlie complete asexual regeneration in this organism.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6429&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anthony_De Tomaso","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Anthony","primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","displayName":"Anthony De Tomaso","lastName":"De Tomaso"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6234&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dmitri_Petrov","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Dmitri","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Dmitri Petrov","lastName":"Petrov"},{"researchInterest":"Chromatin structure and function:\r\n- packaging of DNA\r\n- regulation of transcription\r\n- epigenetic signals affecting functional state of chromatin\r\n- statistical methods for analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10035&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anton_Valouev","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Anton","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","displayName":"Anton Valouev","lastName":"Valouev"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6454&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wing_Wong","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"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Wing","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Statistics","displayName":"Wing Wong","lastName":"Wong"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6220&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marcus_Feldman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Marcus","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Marcus Feldman","lastName":"Feldman"},{"researchInterest":"I refer you to my web page for detailed list of interests, projects and publications.  In addition to pressing the link here, you can search \"Russ Altman\" on http://www.google.com/","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4706&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Russ_Altman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Medical Informatics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Russ","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Bioengineering","displayName":"Russ B. Altman","lastName":"Altman"},{"researchInterest":"Genetic regulation of animal development and human disease. We use mice and flies to study Hedgehog/Patched signaling and its links to brain cancer, development of the neural tube and cerebellum, planar cell polarity genes, a neurodegenerative disease called Niemann-Pick syndrome that affects intracellular organelle movements, chromatin proteins in embryonic stem cells, and genetic control of body size.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4165&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matthew_Scott","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Matthew","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","displayName":"Matthew Scott","lastName":"Scott"},{"researchInterest":"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\".","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3989&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Fire","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Andrew","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","displayName":"Andrew Fire","lastName":"Fire"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15112&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hunter_Fraser","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Hunter","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Hunter Fraser","lastName":"Fraser"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6603&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Atul_Butte","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"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Atul","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","displayName":"Atul Butte","lastName":"Butte"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Davis","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Ronald","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","displayName":"Ronald Davis","lastName":"Davis"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14794&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hui_Jiang","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Statistics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Hui","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Statistics","displayName":"Hui Jiang","lastName":"Jiang"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5864&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gavin_Sherlock","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Gavin","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics","displayName":"Gavin Sherlock","lastName":"Sherlock"},{"researchInterest":"Functional consequences and pathogenetic mechanisms of mutations and microdeletions in human neurogenetic syndromes and mouse models: Williams-Beuren syndrome, a heterozygous 1.6 megabase deletion; Rett syndrome, caused by mutations in the X-linked methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Mechanisms of genomic imprinting: Prader Willi syndrome","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4281&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Uta_Francke","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Genetics"},{"focus":"Neurogenetics"}],"firstName":"Uta","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","displayName":"Uta Francke","lastName":"Francke"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10895&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mikhail_Lipatov","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Mikhail","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Mikhail Lipatov","lastName":"Lipatov"},{"researchInterest":"I specialize in Bioinformatics. Had worked on post-transcriptional regulation (microRNAs) for 5 years during PhD under the mentor ship of Prof. Samir Brahmachari at IGIB, India. Now focusing on building gene regulatory networks using high-throughput genomics and proteomics datasets. Analysis of genomic variations is also a research focus. Currently working with Mike Snyder.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14095&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Manoj_Hariharan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Manoj","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","displayName":"Manoj Hariharan","lastName":"Hariharan"},{"researchInterest":"I am interested in applying population-genetic theories to modern molecular genetic data. I develop various statistical tests and computational tools to understand the processes shaping genome variability patterns within and between species.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10025&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jing_Cai","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Jing","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Jing Cai","lastName":"Cai"},{"researchInterest":"The research of Elizabeth Hadly probes how perturbations such as climatic change influence the evolution and ecology of Neogene vertebrates.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6644&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Elizabeth_Hadly","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Elizabeth","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Elizabeth Hadly","lastName":"Hadly"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4116&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yahli_Lorch","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Structural Biology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Yahli","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Structural Biology","displayName":"Yahli Lorch","lastName":"Lorch"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4078&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sheau-Yu_Hsu","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Sheau-Yu","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Sheau Yu Teddy Hsu","lastName":"Hsu"},{"researchInterest":"Is it possible to understand the molecular structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids in enough detail to make accurate predictions about structure and function? We are mounting a two-pronged attack on this problem using both molecular dynamics simulation and molecular modeling.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4494&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Structural Biology","displayName":"Michael Levitt","lastName":"Levitt"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4249&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/JMichael_Cherry","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"JMichael","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics","displayName":"Mike Cherry","lastName":"Cherry"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4220&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Laura_Lazzeroni","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Laura","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","displayName":"Laura C. Lazzeroni, Ph.D.","lastName":"Lazzeroni"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9027&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tianyun_Liu","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Tianyun","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","displayName":"Tianyun Liu","lastName":"Liu"},{"researchInterest":"My laboratory uses a variety of genetic, cellular, and molecular approaches to study skeletal development in humans, mice, and  fish. Many of our studies begin with naturally occuring genetic traits that alter skeletal development. By isolating the genes responsible for these traits, it has been possible to identify key pathways that control creation of skeletal tissue, repair of fractures, susceptibility to arthritis, and dramatic modifications of skeletal morphology during vertebrate evolution","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4193&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Kingsley","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","displayName":"David Kingsley","lastName":"Kingsley"}]}