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Jagannath Padmanabhan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Bio Jagannath (Jagan) Padmanabhan, PhD is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Geoffrey Gurtner?s laboratory in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. He is a bioengineer by training (PhD, Yale University 2016) and his research interests lie at the interface of bioengineering and surgery, exploring the role of mechanotransduction in foreign body reaction and fibrosis. He uses single cell transcriptomics, bioinformatics, bioengineering tools, small animal surgical models and clinical specimens to interrogate fibrotic events at the biomaterial-tissue interface and during wound healing.
Jagan is also interested in science education and science communication. He recently taught a course on ?Nanobiomaterials? for high school students at the Stanford Summer Institute (June-July 2016). He also runs a blog for scientists, seekers and skeptics at www.sciencers.org.
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Feng Pan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests I intend to contribute to a better understanding of the genetic basis of cancer, with a specific focus on the role of epigenetic regulators or epigenetic marks in the pathogenesis of AML. I will also undertake basic work in defining the landscape of mammalian epigenome in both normal and malignant states, and the molecular mechanisms by which integration of all these data establish a 3D regulatory network. I am especially interested in identifying and characterizing the biological mechanisms of cancer stem cells from an epigenetic perspective through which the mechanistic and biological relevance of many epigenetic regulators will be unraveled and connected.
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Victoria Parikh
Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Bio Dr. Parikh is cardiologist specializing in the care of patients with inherited cardiovascular diseases. She completed clinical cardiology fellowship at Stanford School of Medicine and her medical residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Funded by research grant from the NIH, she currently studies multiple causes of cardiomyopathy in the laboratory. She has a particular clinical and scientific interest in inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, which are an increasingly recognized disease entity. Dr. Parikh is currently using patient cohort genetics, high throughput molecular biology and human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to study variant pathogenicity in this disease.
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Jung In Park
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Informatics
Bio Jung In Park is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Her research area and interests have focused on clinical research informatics using electronic health records and machine learning. She is especially interested in patient-outcomes research that investigates the comparative effectiveness of treatment and interventions.
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Sameera Peraramelli
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hematology
Bio I am Dr. Sameera Peraramelli, a PhD graduate in Biochemistry at University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. I hail from Indian which is culturally very rich. I did my schooling in Delhi and bachelors in biochemistry at Delhi University which is one of the most prestigeous universities in India. After my bachelors I went to the number one research institute of India, Indian Institute of Science for my masters in Biological sciences. After successful completion of my masters I moved to Netherlands to pursue my PhD. I published 5 first author papers during my PhD and received awards for scientific excellence and young investigator award. I have presented my work during my masters and PhD at national and international level. I now joined the reputed Stanford university for my postdoctoral research.
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Todd Peterson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Bio After receiving my Bachelors (2006) and Masters (2010) degrees at the University of Wisconsin ? Milwaukee, I obtained my PhD at Southern Illinois University in 2013. My current research focuses on the central nervous systems response to insult.
I am interested in understanding the complex cellular and molecular interactions that comprise the neuroinflammatory response to neural injury in an effort to develop therapeutic treatment options that produce the most optimal response to multiple types of neural insult and other neurobiological disorders. The World Health Organization reports that neurological disorders are one of the greatest threats to public health. Of the hundreds of these disorders, some of the most common are traumatic brain injury, stroke, and degenerative disorders. Although these disorders are initiated through different causes, the common underlying factor in all of these neurodegenerative diseases is neuroinflammation. The acute response is characterized by glial cell activation, oxidative stress, and edema, all of which lead to increased tissue damage. Chronic neuroinflammation is a sustained, self-perpetuating response that persists long after the onset of neural insult. There is a complex interaction between resident immune cells like microglia and astrocytes and infiltrating immune cells including neutrophils, macrophages, and T lymphocytes. This complicated response to neural injury is a defense mechanism to remove harmful agents and promote recovery, but when over active, it can contribute to further damage. My current objective is to identify the underlying mechanisms of the neuroinflammatory response in multiple different animal models of injury and neurobiological disorders. Ultimately my goal is to steer a group that is running preclinical trials on cellular and molecular compounds designed to reduce the harmful features of the neuroinflammatory response but to harness the beneficial aspects. -
Milos Pjanic
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Bio Research statement:
My major fields of interest are computational biology and bioinformatics, coupled with the passion for the next-generation sequencing technologies, and a profound scientific interest in genomics, transcriptomics, regulation of gene expression, specificity of binding of transcription factors to the genome, histone modifications, nucleosome positioning, long-range genomic interactions and compartmentalization of the genome. My research lies on the frontier of the contemporary computational genomics, with the emphasis on development and testing of scripts and algorithms for the analysis of human genome and transcriptome. My focus is the improvement of methods for the various applications of the next generation sequencing, such as chromatin - immunoprecipitation sequencing or ChIP-Seq, RNA-sequencing or RNA-Seq, and probing open chromatin, DNase-Seq/ATAC-Seq, in order to answer key biological question that will ultimately help us understand better the underlying mechanisms of life. As a postdoc at Stanford?s Cardiovascular Institute, I am elucidating complex networks of interactions of transcription factors in human cardiac and vascular tissues, and molecular mechanisms that explain how cardiovascular disease risk-associated genomic loci confer disease risk. I am also employing allele specific computational pipelines to the existing next generation sequencing techniques, i.e. ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq, in combination with the generation of eQTL data for human arterial smooth muscle cells (primary cell type of atherosclerotic lesions) to identify the causal variants that underlie disease susceptibility. In addition, I am modeling vascular SMC tissue-specific open chromatin with ATAC-Seq and DNase-Seq to understand the underlying mechanisms for cardiovascular disease causal variants. I am also active as a blogger, started a blog www.genomicscode.org and continually post UNIX and R related tips and resolve computational problems that can be applied to genomics.
