Eran Mukamel, PI


Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
contact: emukamel [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Dr. Dominic Burrows


Postdoctoral Fellow
contact: dburrows [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Jo-Fan Chien


Ph.D. Candidate in Physics
University of California, San Diego
contact: jchien [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Mike Cuoco


PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (joint with Gage lab)
University of California, San Diego
Contact: mcuoco [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Mike is interested in the causes and consequences transposable element activity in the developing, healthy, and aging brain. In his current work, Mike uses novel molecular and computational techniques to measure and perturb transposable element activity in neurons.

Alon Gelber


MD-PhD Candidate in Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Contact: agelber [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Alon is interested in the development of computational methods for the analysis of single-cell omics data, and the application of these methods to answer questions about the molecular underpinnings of behavior. He is currently working on transcriptomic sex differences in the cortex.

Abbey Green


PhD Candidate in Neuroscience
University of California, San Diego
Contact: a5green [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Abbey is interested in the field of biomedical informatics and is currently working to elucidate the relationship between aging and mitochondrial DNA methylation in the brain

Dr. Junhao Li


Research Scientist
contact: jul307 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

    Junhao is interested in finding non-coding RNAs related to neuroepigenetics from large-scale next-generation sequencing data, and investigating their implications for neurodevelopment and neurological disorders.

Heng Xu


PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
University of California, San Diego
Contact: hex002 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Heng is engaged in the field of genomics, specifically focusing on DNA methylation. His aim is to unravel the mechanisms that interconnect DNA sequences, epigenomics, and transcriptomes, through machine learning/deep learning techniques.

Alumni

Dr. Fangming Xie


Ph.D. in Physics; currently Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA
University of California, San Diego
contact: f7xie [at] ucsd [dot] edu

    Fangming is interested in differentiating DNAs from their mixture of different tissue origins, with applications to detection of neurodegenerative disease.

Russell Li


High school student,
St. John's School in Houston
Contact: rli [at] sjs [dot] org

Russell is a high school senior at St. John's School in Houston. His research interests include using deep learning to analyze epigenomic sequencing data and uncovering the connection between the patterns and aberrations in such data and various neurological disorders.

Ethan Armand


UCSD Cognitive Science
contact: earmand [at] ucsd [dot] edu

    Ethan is now a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program at UCSD.

Lily Tran


Bioinformatics Programmer
University of California, San Diego
Contact: lit008 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Lily is interested in database engineering and applying machine learning algorithms to next-generation sequencing data.

Aditya Chandrasekar


UCSD BS in Computer Science with specialization in Bioinformatics; Mathematics minor
University of California, San Diego
contact: adc041 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

    Aditya is interested in applying software and bioinformatics tools for understanding large-scale genomic data, as well as the role of the epigenetic profile of the brain in development and disease. He is currently hoping to write software for the lab, especially across web portal development.

Christopher Keown


Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
website: http://www.chriskeown.com
contact: christopher.keown [at] gmail [dot] com

    Chris is interested in examining genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in the brain to understand how methylation markers differ across cell types and the functional implications of this; how changes in methylation may support cognition; and whether methylation differences may be implicated in disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.

Dr. Wayne Doyle


Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Diego
contact: widoyle [at] ucsd [dot] edu

    Now at Active Motif

Krystyna Kolodziej


Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Sciences
University of California, San Diego
contact: kkolodzi [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Han Li


UCSD CSE
University of California, San Diego
contact: h5li [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Dr. Urvashi Bhattacharyya


Shweta Patkar


Research Associate, Summer 2017
contact: shwetapatkar96 [at] gmail [dot] com

Tianhao Xiao


Research Associate, Summer 2017

Diego Zamora Rodriguez


Research Associate, Summer 2017
B.A. candidate, Computer Science
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara (ITESM), Mexico

Michael Hatch


B.S. candidate in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
contact: mjhatch [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Alex Jorjorian


B.S. candidate in Bioengineering Biotechnology
University of California, San Diego
contact: ajorjori [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Tomo Ishihara



Maria Yera


Mingtao Gao


Saieashwar Mukund


Zhaoyi Hou


Yijiu Zhong


Chiin Quah


Hongyi Pan


Zeyun Wu


Jenna Kovsky



Openings for students and post-docs

We are recruiting students and postdocs interested in getting involved with our work on computational analysis and modeling of neural dynamics and epigenomics data sets. If you are interested, email us at lab [at] brainome [dot] ucsd [dot] edu.