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Founding Director

  • Gene W. Yeo

    Gene W. Yeo

    Gene Yeo, Ph.D., MBA is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), a founding member of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and a member of the UCSD Stem Cell Program and Moores Cancer Center.  Dr. Yeo serves as Co-Director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, an Associate Director of a Genetics T32 training program at UCSD, and Deputy Scientific Director of Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla.

Associate Directors

  • Katherine Rothamel

    Katherine Rothamel

    Katie is an expert in RNA-binding protein dynamics integrating both biochemical, high-throughput, and bioinformatic techniques to functionally profile protein-RNA interactions. As a postdoc, Katie helped develop multiplex CLIP, an innovative technique to simultaneously profile multiple RNA-binding proteins from one sample. 
  • Tao Yu

    Tao Yu

    Tao is an expert in high-throughput sequencing, functional genomics, circRNA biochemistry, RNA base editing, and molecular engineering. As a postdoc, Tao developed circRNA sequencing methods to measure circRNA expression profiles for biomarker discovery and mechanistic studies (manuscript in preparation). Tao is also developing a method to map the binding sites of RNA binding proteins on circRNAs to investigate the function of circRNA-protein interactions. 
  • Stefan Aigner

    Stefan Aigner

    Stefan is a senior RNA biochemist, stem cell biologist, and neuroscientist with extensive experience in funding acquisition and project management.

Staff

  • Brian Yee

    Brian Yee

    Bioinformatics software developer focuses on building tools for large-scale analysis projects such as ENCODE and the U19 metadata database initiative.