Postdoctoral Fellows
Nasim Bararpour
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
University of Lausanne
Department of Biology and Medicine, Toxicology Unit of Forensic Science (UFT) and Hospital University of Legal Medicine (CURML) Geneva-Lausanne, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Metabolomics, Computational analysis and Software development, Multi-Omics and Integrative analysis.
Andrew Brooks
Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow, Genetics
Human Genetics and Microbiomics,Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Research interests: focuses on the human gut microbiome, involved in multiple multiomic projects investigating how physiological systems through the human body interact across different lifestyles and health states. Research involving wet and dry lab aspects of multiomics analyses, and two coronavirus research projects including handling of positive SARS-COV-2 samples.
Varuna Chander
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D, Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Baylor College of Medicine
Research Interests: Dr. Varuna Chander is a postdoctoral fellow in the Snyder lab investigating the genomic basis of human diseases, both rare and common using multi-omics and machine learning approaches.
More Dr. Chander received her PhD in Genetics and Genomics from the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Gibbs. As a NLM fellow of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Dr. Chander led projects investigating the molecular causes of rare diseases and also the relationship between somatic mosaicism in blood and cardiovascular disease risk. Alongside, she also led collaborative projects employing the role of structural variation in genetic diseases. Prior to doctoral studies, she gained experience in early-stage NGS research and product development in companies spanning big pharma to start-ups in Boston and San Diego.
Faye Chleilat
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D.,Nutrition, Genetics and Metabolism,
University of Calgary
Research Interests: Nutrition, Microbiome, Epigenome, Multi-omics, Fertility, Precision Medicine
Shubham Gupta
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research interest: Cancer immunotherapy.
Tuhin Guha
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., M.S., Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Canada
Research Interests: Dr. Tuhin Guha is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Snyder lab, where he is using highly multiplexed imaging modalities, such as CODEX and Nanostring to understand the precancer/tumor microenvironment from Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) More patient samples. His doctoral work involved biochemical characterization of DNA cutting enzymes (Meganuclease) and designing ‘on/off’ switch for temporal regulation of ‘molecular scissors’ for efficient genome editing. Previous postdoctoral training involved modified CRISPR-Cas system for increasing the efficiency of gene editing in mammalian cells/Xenopus embryos and alternative gene therapy approach to treat various muscle disorders using the diseased mouse models.
Hirotaka Ieki
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Medicine
M.D., The University of Tokyo, Medicine
Research Interests: Dr. Hirotaka Ieki is a physician-scientist specializing in cardiovascular disease. He has completed an internal medicine residency and is a board-certified cardiologist with 10 years of clinical experience in Japan. His research focuses on genomics in cardiovascular disease and machine learning.
More Dr. Ieki joined Snyder lab in 2023. His project is realizing precision medicine in heart disease by combining genome, omics, and wearable big data using statistical and machine learning techniques.
Brian Johnson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Maya Kasowski
Clinical Instructor, Pathology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Residency and Pathology Fellowship
Stanford University
Linda (Yu-Ling) Lan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., Immunology
University of Chicago
Research interests: Linda is interested in how immune functions work as a system in response to vaccination/infection. Her current study explores how cardiorespiratory fitness affects immune cell populations, T cell and antibody repertoire diversity, and humoral immune responses post-influenza vaccination.
Petra Mamic
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Genetics
Harvard Medical School, M.D.
Internal Medicine Residency
Stanford University
Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University
Research interest: Gut microbiome in cardiovascular disease.
Tim MacKenzie
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Genetics
Fellow in Genetics
Chemistry, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Caleb Mayer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics
University of Michigan
mayercl@stanford.edu
Research interests: Pardis Miri, PhD, is focused on building technology to facilitate mental well being..
More With a PhD in computer science and years of training in area of affective science (under the supervision of Professor James J. Gross), Pardis has assembled a unique team (see http://wehab.stanford.edu) to not only run clinical studies to evaluate their efficacy in changing emotion, mood, and stress but also build product-ready technology. Pardis is the principal investigator of a large multi-disciplinary project (FAR) to design, build, and evaluate a wearable system tailored to the needs of children with emotion dysregulation, especially children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. FAR aims to empower them to manage their problem behaviors in a more adaptive way. The FAR project involves collaborations between the departments of Computer Science, Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Pardis is being advised by Professors Micheal Snyder in the Genetics Department at Stanford University School of Medicine, Professor Keith Marzullo at the University of Maryland iSchool, whose research is on distributed systems, and by Professor James Gross, whose research underlies much of what we now know about emotion regulation. She is also working with Professor Antonio Hardan of the Stanford School of Medicine, whose research is on children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Tejaswini Mishra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics Project Lead for iPOP, hPOP, and the COVID-19 Wearables Study
Cell and Developmental Biology, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Longitudinal Data, Multi-Omics, Wearables Sensors, Space Biology, Systems Biology.
Bio: Tejaswini’s research interests lie at the intersection of biomedical research, More precision medicine, and bioinformatics. She previously led the Snyder lab arm of the NASA Twins Study, and currently leads the iPOP, hPOP and COVID-19 Wearables studies within the lab. Her work revolves around using longitudinal biomedical data (omics and wearables) to understand physiological variation across individuals, to establish personal healthy molecular profiles, to study individual metabolic dysregulation patterns, and to identify changes associated with lifestyle, illness, and space travel (NASA Twins Study), with the ultimate goal of predicting diseases early and using personalized medicine to manage health.
Research Interests: Interests: computational mass spectrometry, algorithms for huge data sets in computational biology, multiomics in relation to maternal and cardiovascular health, multiomics in relation to drug response.
Before this Mihir received a PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, a masters of applied math at Stanford, and a bachelors of electrical engineering at Rice University. More During his PhD he developed the state of the art computational routines for processing mass spectrometry data in the field of metabalomics. In his postdoc he hopes to use his data science skills to extract biologically meaningful insight that could translate to the real world.
Research interests:focuses on multi-omics and epigenomics of aging and rejuvenation at Sebastiano Lab (Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) and Snyder Lab (Department of Genetics).
Bio: Mahdi Moqri, PhD is an NLM Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics as well as an academic graduate student at Stanford. He served as an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Iowa State University, developing large-scale machine learning models for predicting patients’ outcomes, before joining Stanford.
Michael Nshanian
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology UCLA
Research interest: Histone epigenetics, chromatin biology, integrated multi-omics. Specifically, understanding the regulatory effects of short-chain acyl-lysine histone modifications and their effect on chromatin structure and gene expression.
Daniel Panyard
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: Molecular epidemiology, complex disease, genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, statistics, bioinformatics
Ekanath Srihari Rangan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
M.B.B.S., Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
Research interests: Wearable medical systems for non-invasive and pervasive health monitoring in cardiovascular and critical care contexts; Correlation of genomic aspects of disease with phenotypic data from electronic health records; Informatics and machine learning for precise detection and early warning of infectious diseases; Preemptive protocols for managing disease More severity trajectories; And IoT based Telemedicine. Ekanath's current research involves large scale study of resting heart rate, clinical symptoms and daily activities as they relate to COVID-19, as well as their time series big data analysis for risk stratification.
Morteza Roodgar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Shiraz
Comparative Pathology, Ph.D., Unversity of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Research interests: applications of genomics in comparative medicine and animal models (primates).
Sophia Miryam S. Rose
Instructor, Genetics
Fellowship, Stanford School of Medicine/Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Spinal Cord Injury
Intern and Resident, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, General Surgery
Population Health Sciences, Ph.DP
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research interests: Understanding the biological effects of the exposome using multiomics profiling. The areas of the exposome I am most interested in include lifetime stress and adversity and environmental chemical exposures
Xiaotao Shen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Doctor of Philosophy,
Chinese Academy Of Sciences
Research interests: Metabolomics, Multi-omics, Biostatistics, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics, and their application in healthcare.
Xiaotao's research focuses on the development of bioinformatic algorithms and tools for large-scale metabolomics as well as its application in discovering new biomarkers related to human diseases. He has developed several algorithms and tools. The first algorithm was MetNormalizer, which is a machine learning-based algorithm for data normalization and integration of large-scale metabolomics. Then he developed a web-based tool, MetFlow, aiming to provide a comprehensive pipeline for data cleaning and statistical analysis of large-scale metabolomics. The most important algorithm he has developed is MetDNA, which is a novel algorithm for metabolite identification and dysregulated pathway analysis in untargeted metabolomics.
Mahasish Shome
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
PhD in Molecular Biology,
Arizona State University
Research Interests: Dr. Mahasish Shome is interested in understanding the underlying mechanism of disease progression. He uses various omics profiling to identify biomarkers relevant to the disease. He studies antibodies, cytokines, proteins and metabolites profile to decipher the connection of disease with markers. This helps in early diagnosis, understanding disease state and drug/vaccine effectiveness.
Research Interests: Female athlete research, exercise physiology, human performance, multi-omics, interventions
Meng Wang
Basic Life Research Scientist, Genetics
Statistics, Ph.D. Basic Life Research Scientist, Genetics
Statistics, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Research interests: statistical method development and analysis, machine learning, -omics data integration, system biology.
Yue Wu
Research interest: Metabolomics, time series, dynamics, machine learning. Yue extracts knowledge from biological time series. He connects biological states from omics data and infers functional variations related to biochemistry, disease, and clinical application.
Allison Xinyue Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Doctor of Philosophy,
University of Kansas
Research interest: Exposome and how environmental exposures affect your health.
Bingqing Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Doctor of Science,
EMBL, Ruprecht Karl Universitat Heidelberg
Research interests: transcriptional regulation in health and in disease.
Xin Zhou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Genetics and Genome Science, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Research interests: employing new methods to better understand the moving interactions between the human immune system and the environmental factors such as the microbiome.