# Faculty Students may choose from BIG/AIM faculty labs or anyone in HILS if appropriate and with prior approval. [See HILS faculty directory here. chevron\_right](https://instructors.my.harvard.edu/) Sort & Filters close ## Filters AIM or BIG Faculty expand\_more - AIM Faculty (11) - BIG Faculty (87) Faculty research type expand\_more - Computational (44) - Experimental (13) - Hybrid of computational and experimental (22) Biological/Medical Focus expand\_more - Aging/neurodegeneration (3) - Infectious disease/pathogens (4) - Transposon (1) - New measurement technologies (3) - Neurodevelopment (9) - Mendelian disease (9) - Immunology including autoimmune (9) - Cancer biology (23) - Immunology and aging (2) - Genetics of human disease (4) - Gene regulation (11) - Evolutionary, population and statistical genetics (2) - Evolution of cells or populations (10) - Diabetes or other endocrine disorders (1) - Development (5) - Complex disease (22) - Chemical biology and/or drug development (5) - Cardiovascular disease (4) Methodological Focus expand\_more - Epigenetics (8) - Regulatory Genomics (2) - Statistical methods (8) - Transcriptomics (13) - Synthetic biology (1) - Single cell profiling (17) - Genome analysis (45) - Proteomics (2) - Modeling/theory (11) - ML/AI (20) - Microbiome and/or metagenomics (5) - Metabolomics (2) - Integration of clinical and genomic data (3) - Imaging analysis (6) Primary affiliation expand\_more - BCH (10) - Joslin (1) - MIT (5) - MGH (19) - HSPH (2) - BWH (12) - HMS (Genetics/SysBio) (7) - Main campus (3) - HMS (DBMI)/DFCI (1) - DFCI (11) - HMS (DBMI)/HSPH (1) - HMS (DBMI) (11) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 87 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Last Name A-ZLast Name Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 87 results [### Martin Aryee ](/people/martin-aryee) Associate Professor of Pathology We develop computational and statistical methods for extracting signal from noisy genomic datasets, with a focus on cancer epigenomics. Our group members' interests range from understanding the basic epigenetic mechanisms underlying human disease, to... ![aryee_martin.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/aryee_martin.jpg?itok=zj9s-6y9) [### Paul Avillach ](/people/paul-avillach) [Paul\_Avillach@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:Paul_Avillach@hms.harvard.edu)Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics The Avillach Lab, led by Paul Avillach, M.D., Ph.D., focuses on translational bioinformatics, specifically in integrating multiple heterogeneous sources of clinical and genomic data in a meaningful way. We are passionate about combining data across... ![paul_avillach_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/paul_avillach_0.jpg?itok=T1o1dF5N) [### Sylvan Baca ](/people/sylvan-baca) Assistant Professor of Medicine Our lab develops and applies computational methods in an emerging space we call “translational epigenomics”. This space encompasses efforts to advance precision oncology by deeply characterizing cancer epigenomes. By examining epigenetic changes in... ![baca_sylvan.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/baca_sylvan.jpg?itok=a6tYBTkq) [### Michael Baym ](/people/michael-baym) Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Our research crosses a broad spectrum of areas, centered around microbial evolutionary genomics and antibiotic resistance. Our projects are curiosity-driven and range from fundamental evolutionary questions, to genetic arms races, to algorithmic and... ![baym_michael.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/baym_michael.jpg?itok=ogIRXewe) [### Bonnie Berger ](/people/bonnie-berger) Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Faculty Bonnie Berger is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT, and head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. After beginning her career working in algorithms at MIT, she was one of the pioneer... ![berger_bonnie.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/berger_bonnie.jpg?itok=eZis0kKD) [### Rameen Beroukhim ](/people/rameen-beroukhim) [rameen\_beroukhim@dfci.harvard.edu](mailto:rameen_beroukhim@dfci.harvard.edu)Associate Professor of Medicine The Beroukhim laboratory focuses on understanding the somatic genetics of cancer, primarily in identifying alterations in chromosomal structure (including copy-number gains and losses and loss of heterozygosity) that contribute to tumor growth, and... ![beroukhim_rameen.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/beroukhim_rameen_1.jpg?itok=ODp3k7Jb) [### Jason Daniel Buenrostro ](/people/jason-daniel-buenrostro) [jason\_buenrostro@harvard.edu](mailto:jason_buenrostro@harvard.edu)Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Our laboratory seeks to advance our understanding of gene regulation biology using single-cell methods. To do this, we develop new technologies that integrate molecular biology, microscopy, and large-scale bioinformatics. These efforts include new methods... ![buenrostro_jason.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/buenrostro_jason.jpg?itok=0DpyS90e) [### Martha Leonia Bulyk ](/people/martha-leonia-bulyk) Professor of Medicine Although numerous eukaryotic genomes have been sequenced, much still remains to be understood about how the genes in those genomes are regulated. The interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and their DNA binding sites are an integral part of the... ![bulyk_martha.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/bulyk_martha_2.jpg?itok=H36cYfPw) [### Tianxi Cai ](/people/tianxi-cai) John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences Tianxi Cai is a major player in developing analytical tools for mining EHR data and predictive modeling with biomedical data. She provides statistical leadership on several large-scale projects, including the NIH-funded Undiagnosed Diseases Network at... ![cai_tianxi.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/cai_tianxi.jpg?itok=bH6wSYoK) [### Christopher Cassa ](/people/christopher-cassa) Assistant Professor of Medicine Our research group studies the statistical genetics of Mendelian disorders. We focus on two major application areas: methods to assess the pathogenicity of genomic variants and the clinical application of predictive algorithms in genomics. These... ![cassa_christopher.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/cassa_christopher.jpeg?itok=QvkyrKty) [### Kaifu Chen ](/people/kaifu-chen) Associate Professor of Pediatrics We are a bioinformatics lab developing computation technology to model how cell identity is established during differentiation. We develop bioinformatics methods to understand genetic, epigenetic, and molecular signaling mechanisms in cell identity... ![chen_kaifu.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/chen_kaifu.jpg?itok=0-wmxgKI) [### George Mcdonald Church ](/people/george-mcdonald-church) Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics Our research focuses on new technologies for genomic & proteomic measurement, synthesis and modeling of biomedical & ecological systems -- in particular, personal genomics and biofuels. We have developed next-generation sequencing methods to analyze the... ![church_george.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/bigphd/files/church_george_0.jpg?itok=GLRP30Vr) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 8 ](?page=7 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")