Bio
Alistair Boettiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a member of Bio-X and the Biophysics Program. As an undergraduate he studied Physics and Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where he had the opportunity to experience lab research under the mentorship of Stas Shvartsman, who introduced him to his abiding interest in quantitative imaging and animal development. He conducted his Ph.D. research under the guidance of Michael Levine at UC Berkeley, where he studied cis-regulatory sequences that modulate the precision and robustness of gene expression (in particular shadow enhancers and paused promoters). As a postdoc in Xiaowei Zhuang's single-molecule imaging group at Harvard University, he studied gene regulation through super-resolution microscopy, multiplexed, error-correcting imaging, and deep sequencing. Dr. Boettiger started his lab at Stanford in 2016.
Honors & Awards
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New Innovator Award, NIH (2018-2023)
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Packard Fellowship, Packard Foundation (2018-2023)
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Beckman Young Investigator, Beckman Foundation (2018-2022)
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Kavli Fellow, NAS/Kavli Frontiers of Science (2018)
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Searle Scholars Award, Chicago Community Trust (2017-2020)
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Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI), Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2016-2021)
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Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (2016-2018)
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Damon Runyon Fellowship Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (2012-2016)
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Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2009-2011)
Professional Education
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Postdoc, Harvard University, Single-molecule Imaging (2016)
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Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Biophysics (2011)
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A.B., Princeton University, Physics (2007)