Team

Image of Lars Steinmetz principal investigator in the Steinmetz lab.

Lars M. Steinmetz

Principal Investigator

Chair, Department of Genetics
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Endowed Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Co-Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Associate Group Leader, EMBL Heidelberg

larsms [at] stanford.edu

Image of Michelle Nguyen, lab manager for the Steinmetz lab

Michelle Nguyen

Life Science Research Professional

Michelle is our lab manager and the heart of our group. She helps develop new genome editing tools to unravel the genetic basis of complex traits and on our synthetic mitochondria project.

tlnguyen [at] stanford.edu

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Kevin Roy

Research Scientist

Kevin develops and applies CRISPR genome editing technologies to dissect the genetic basis of complex traits.

kevinroy [at] stanford.edu

Image of Xueyi Li, Research Scientist in the Steinmetz lab.

Xueyi Li

Research Scientist

Xueyi is an expert at developing models for studying heart disease. She is leading investigations into epigenetic remodeling in dilated cardiomyopathy and systems to evaluate therapeutic targets.

xueyili [at] stanford.edu

Image of Jielin Yan, postdoctoral fellow in the Steinmetz Lab.

Jielin Yan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jielin is working on understanding the role of genetic variants in dilated cardiomyopathy.

jielin [at] stanford.edu

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Marta Seczynska

Postdoctoral Scholar

Marta uses functional genomic approaches to identify principles by which epigenetic pathways provide long-lasting responses to transient stimuli and maintain cellular memory.

marta.seczynska [at] stanford.edu

Image of Chris Mathy, postdoctoral scholar in the Steinmetz lab

Chris Mathy

Postdoctoral Scholar

Chris is mapping systems and synthetic biology of protein networks.

cjmathy [at] stanford.edu

Image of Chenchen Zhu a research scientist in the Steinmetz lab.

Chenchen Zhu

Research Scientist

Spatial and single-cell genomics for dilated cardiomyopathy and beyond.

czhu5 [at] stanford.edu

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Andreas Gschwind

Research Scientist

Andreas develops and applies novel computational methods to decipher and predict gene regulatory interactions.

andreas.gschwind [at] stanford.edu

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Peter Griffin

Senior Research Engineer

For the past two decades Peter has performed interdisciplinary work at the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) with a particular emphasis on digital microfluidics.

griffin [at] stanford.edu

Julia Bauman

Julia Bauman

PhD student

Building tools to better understand gene regulation.

jrbauman [at] stanford.edu

 

Umberto Aiello

Umberto Aiello

Postdoctoral Scholar

Umberto studies molecular complexes involved in gene expression from the single amino acid resolution to the system biology scale using multiplexed genome editing.

uaiello [at] stanford.edu

Image of Simon Sretenovic, postdoctoral scholar in the Steinmetz Lab.

Simon Sretenovic

Postdoctoral Scholar

Simon works on high-throughput precision genome editing for dissecting complex traits in yeast and human cell lines.

simonsre [at] stanford.edu

Jon Bezney

Jon Bezney

Graduate Student (co-supervised with Stanley Qi)

Jon’s research interests include combinatorial perturbations, multi-omics, machine learning, and algorithmic inspired method development.

jbezney [at] stanford.edu

Lorenzo Magni

Lorenzo Magni

Graduate Student (co-supervised with Stanley Qi)

Lorenzo is working on mitochondrial and organelle engineering to enhance energy related metabolism.

lmagni [at] stanford.edu

Image of Biance Edozie, graduate student in the Steinmetz lab.

Bianca Edozie

Graduate Student (co-supervised with Ron Davis)

Bianca’s research on ME/CFS aims to characterise the cell and molecular underpinnings of the disease and identify biomarkers for diagnosis.

bedozie [at] stanford.edu

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Stefan Bassler

Postdoctoral Scholar (co-supervised with Dmitri Petrov)

Stefan is on a mission to unlock the secrets in ageing using an inter-kingdom approach to map ancient lifespan-regulating pathways from yeast to humans. 

bassler [at] stanford.edu

Alumni:

Marina Granovskaia

EMBL

Fabiana Perocchi

EMBL

Eugenio Mancera

EMBL

Zhenyu Xu

EMBL

Raeka Aiyar

Stanford

Jonathan Landry

EMBL

Aino Järvelin

EMBL

Lin Gen

EMBL

Ishaan Gupta

EMBL

Chenchen Zhu

EMBL

Christophe Chabbert

EMBL

Lars Velten

EMBL

Francesca Briganti

EMBL

Chiara Baccin

EMBL

Kristen Wells

Stanford

Michael Sikora

Stanford

Cosimo Jann

EMBL

Benjamin Story

EMBL

Himanshu Sinha

EMBL

Julien Gagneur

EMBL

Wu Wei

Stanford

Stefan Wilkening

EMBL

Emilie Fritsch

EMBL

Vicent Pelechano

EMBL

Xiaolong Shi

EMBL

Xiaobin Xing

EMBL

Simon Anders

EMBL

Christopher Hughes

EMBL

Lior David

EMBL

Judith Zaugg

EMBL

Leopold Parts

EMBL

Sophie Adjalley

EMBL

Christophe Chabbert

EMBL

Ishaan Gupta

EMBL

Philip Brennecke

EMBL

Bianca Hennig

EMBL

Mariona Nadal-Ribelles

EMBL

William Mueller

EMBL

Yuehan Feng

EMBL

Gozde Durmus

Stanford

Saiful Islam

Stanford

Anya Grozhik

EMBL

Hanice Sun

Stanford

Justin Smith

Stanford

Daniel Schraivogel

EMBL

Sibylle Vonesch

EMBL

Evelyn Lattmann

Stanford

Benedikt Rauscher

EMBL

Balint Csorgo

EMBL

Anne-Maud Ferreira

Stanford

Markus Grosch

EMBL

Bastian Linder

EMBL

Amanda Hughes

EMBL

Annique Claringbould

EMBL

John Hawkins

EMBL

Matilde Bertolini

Stanford

Jarod Rutledge

Stanford

John Hawkins

EMBL

Ye Ning

EMBL

Raquel Tamse-Kuehn

EMBL

Anna-Lynn Wegener

EMBL

Manu Tekkedil

EMBL

Allan Jones

EMBL

Jennifer Milbank

EMBL

Sabine Blum

EMBL

Chelsea Szu Tu

EMBL

Petra Jakob

EMBL

Daniel Leonce

EMBL

Aaron Brooks

EMBL

Sonja Noss

EMBL

Rayomand Kapadia

Stanford

Andreas Johansson

EMBL

Friederike Steudle

EMBL

Marta Rodriquez-Martinez

EMBL

Moritz Kueblbeck

EMBL

Rocio Nieto Arellano

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