{"result":[{"lastName":"Cherry","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4249&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mike Cherry","firstName":"J. Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/J. Michael_Cherry","researchInterest":"My research involves identifying, validating and integrating scientific facts into encyclopedic databases essential for research and scientific education.  Published results of scientific experimentation are a foundation of our understanding of the natural world and provide motivation for new experiments.  The combination of in-depth understanding reported in the literature with computational analyses is an essential ingredient of modern biological research."},{"lastName":"Snyder","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13465&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Snyder","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Michael_Snyder","researchInterest":"We are presently in an omics revolution in which genomes and other omes can be readily characterized. Our laboratory uses a variety of approaches to analyze genomes and regulatory networks. Our research focuses on yeast, an ideal model organism ideally suited to genetic analysis, and humans.\r\n\r\n1) Transcriptomes\r\nTo annotate genomes, we developed RNA sequencing for annotation the yeast and human transcriptomes. We discovered that the eukaryotic transcriptome is much more complex than previously"},{"lastName":"Fraser","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15112&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hunter Fraser","firstName":"Hunter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Hunter_Fraser","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Shah","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19142&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD","firstName":"Nigam","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Nigam_Shah","researchInterest":"My research group studies ontology-based approaches to annotate, index, integrate and analyze unstructured information available in biomedicine for the purpose of enabling data-driven analytics in medicine and health care."},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23896&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jingjing Li","firstName":"Jingjing","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Jingjing_Li","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Pringle","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7022&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John R. Pringle","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/John_Pringle","researchInterest":"Much of our research exploits the power of yeast as an experimentally tractable model eukaryote to investigate fundamental problems in cell and developmental biology such as the mechanisms of cell polarization and cytokinesis.  In another project, we are developing the small sea anemone Aiptasia as a model system for study of the molecular and cellular biology of dinoflagellate-cnidarian symbiosis, which is critical for the survival of most corals but still very poorly understood."},{"lastName":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald W. Davis","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Ronald_Davis","researchInterest":"We are using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. We have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion."},{"lastName":"Roskin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21093&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Krishna Roskin","firstName":"Krishna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Krishna_Roskin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Collins","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10605&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sean Collins","firstName":"Sean","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Sean_Collins","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Skotheim","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Chemical and Systems Biology"},{"appointment":" (By courtesy),Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10452&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jan Skotheim","firstName":"Jan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Jan_Skotheim","researchInterest":"A central aim of the burgeoning field of systems biology is to understand the principles governing genetic control networks. I believe finding the principles underlying genetic circuits will occur through detailed studies and then comparisons of several natural systems. Due to its extensive development as an experimental system, our favorite model, the budding yeast cell cycle, is poised to become central to this enterprise."},{"lastName":"Rubin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"Imaging informatics"},{"focus":"Biomedical informatics"},{"focus":"Quantitative Imaging"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10416&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Rubin","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Daniel_Rubin","researchInterest":"My research interest is imaging informatics--ways computers can work with images to leverage their rich information content and to help physicians use images to guide personalized care. Work in our lab thus lies at the intersection of biomedical informatics and imaging science."},{"lastName":"Araya","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23129&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carlos L. Araya","firstName":"Carlos","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Carlos_Araya","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sidow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4393&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Arend Sidow","firstName":"Arend","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Arend_Sidow","researchInterest":"We are interested in the systems biology of molecular phenotypes, and how genetic variation affects them. The lab combines experimental approaches in developing mouse embryos as well as human cancers with computational analyses. Our main data engine is high-throughput sequencing. Please refer to our web site for more information:  http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/index.html"},{"lastName":"Montgomery","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23650&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen B. 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See our website at http://montgomerylab.stanford.edu/"},{"lastName":"Berg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,SoM Dean's Office Administrative Units - Dean's Office Operations"},{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6263&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Berg","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Paul_Berg","researchInterest":"For about 10 years until 2000, my lab's research activities were focused on the mechanism of recombinational repair of double-strand breaks in DNA. We focused our efforts on two model systems:  one involved the repair of restriction enzyme cleavages at specific mammalian chromosomal loci and the second explored the biochemical properties of purified yeast Rad51 protein, an essential catalyst for synapsing the broken ends of DNA with an intact homologue of that sequence.  We also explored the ro"},{"lastName":"Musen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Biomedical Informatics Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4164&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Musen","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mark_Musen","researchInterest":"My laboratory investigates the use of distributed, component-based software architectures to build intelligent computer systems. Emphasis is on knowledge modeling and knowledge reuse. Our goals are to enhance methodologies that faculitate building and maintaining electronic knowledge bases that can drive useful biomedical computer systems. Current work concentrates on automation of clinical practice guidelines and clinical-trial protocols, and surveillance for potential episodes of bioterrorism."},{"lastName":"van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Matt_van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Wei","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Biochemistry - Stanford Genome Technology Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Biochemistry - Stanford Genome Technology Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29094&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wu Wei","firstName":"Wu","href":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/Wu_Wei","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Das","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5918&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amar K. Das","firstName":"Amarendra","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Amarendra_Das","researchInterest":"My research focuses on informatics methods to study outcomes and biomarkers in longitudinal data sets."},{"lastName":"Dill","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8061&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Dill","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/David_Dill","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tilgner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23131&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hagen Tilgner","firstName":"Hagen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Hagen_Tilgner","researchInterest":""}]}