Postdoctoral scientists
Masako Suzuki
Ph.D.Originally from Kunio Shiota's lab at the University of Tokyo, Masako is involved with the lab's genomic imprinting projects, testing candidate genes for imprinting, and is also studying cytosine methylation changes in cancer. She has also started a series of experiments on the epigenomic regulatory patterns in embryonic stem cells.
Priti Tewari
M.D. Priti is a hematology/oncology clinical fellow who is working on the identification of imprinted genes and epigenomic dysregulation in cancer.
Niru Narayanan
Ph.D. Niru is working on our new structural epigenomics area of research, isolating proteins with interesting DNA-binding characteristics.
Graduate students
Khulan Batbayar
(Ph.D. program)
Khulan is the developer of the HELP assay. She is using it to study spermatogenesis in mouse and in vitro differentiated human embryonic stem cells. Her thesis project is focused on the understanding of the ontogeny of cytosine methylation during spermatogenesis, looking specifically at meiotic sex chromosome inactivation and imprinted domains. She is also studying methylation during differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.
Jacob Glass (MSTP
program)
Jacob is focused on computational biology, and has developed a novel means of defining what are currently called CpG islands. His technique studies CG dinucleotide clustering, and allows a species-specific definition that reveals hitherto unsuspected conservation of these sequence features. His thesis project is focused on the evolution of this sequence feature and its relationship to cytosine methylation patterns generated using the HELP assay. His CG clusters annotations are available through this website.
Reid Thompson
(MSTP program)
Reid is co-mentored with Nir Barzilai, as his research project studies the epigenetic basis of ageing and type 2 diabetes mellitus. He combines molecular studies with bioinformatics, not only performing HELP assays on human samples and rodent models of these phenotypes but also designing the microarrays and developing the techniques required to analyse the HELP data.
Marién Pascual
(University of Salamanca, Spain)
Marién is studying the epigenetics of asthma, atopy and allergies, and is also developing techniques to study cytosine methylation in limited cell populations.
Research Assistant
Edyta
StasiekEdyta works with Masako Suzuki on the imprinting project, but also a separate study to crystallise proteins with epigenetic functions, a collaboration with Steve Almo. These studies form the basis for what we hope to be a broader structural epigenomics program at Einstein.
Collaborating biostatistician
Melissa Fazzari
Melissa's major research interest is the analysis of high-dimensional datasets, using statistical techniques not often employed in biology but of increasing value in this field as our capacity to generate such datasets increases. Her primary focus in terms of her collaboration with this lab is her involvement with our genomic imprinting project.
P.I.
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Former personnel
Mayumi Oda Ph.D.
Mayumi's research focused on the effects of diet and genotype on the epigenome and how these may create a susceptibility to early neoplastic changes. She has also developed a new version of our HELP assay that increases its resolution greatly, and has studied cytosine methylation and its relationship to gene expression.