Gill Bejerano
Professor of Developmental Biology, of Computer Science, of Pediatrics (Genetics) and of Biomedical Data Science
Our lab seeks to understand the human genome through vertebrate comparative, functional, and paleo-genomics, including such topics as the functional landscape of the human genome and its evolution, with particular focus on vertebrate gene regulation and its contributions to morphological diversity, development, and human disease; functions, origins, and evolution of proximal and distal cis-acting regulatory elements; the paradoxical existence of ultraconserved elements; co-option of mobile DNA elements (repeats) as a driving force in vertebrate evolution; and the interpretation of ancestral genomes.