Bernstein Lab / People

People

Principal Investigator

Bradley E. Bernstein, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Director, Broad Epigenomics Program and Broad Gene Regulation Observatory
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Operations

Raina Williams

Executive Support to the Chair
DFCI
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Ka Thao

Lab Manager
DFCI
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Postdoctoral Fellows

Rony Chanoch-Myers, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Computational Biology, Epigenetic mechanisms driving glioma development and progression, Glioblastoma
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Daniel Solvie, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Computational Biology, Epigenetics, Transcriptional Regulation
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Shelby Roseman, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Epigenetics, chromatin silencing, Transcriptional Regulation
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Eran Hodis, MD/PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Genomics, Computational Biology, Melanoma, Single-cell technologies
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James Morrow, MD/PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Epigenetics, Pediatric Sarcomas, Single-cell technologies, Solid Tumor Metastasis
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Anne van der Leun, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: T cell epigenetics, Tumor Immunology
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Salva Casani Galdon, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
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Justin Becker, MD, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: biomarkers in lung and other cancers, chromatin silencing, transposable elements
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Alba Meira, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Epigenetics, Epigenetic evolution, Single-cell technologies
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Samantha Bevill, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI

Zeyu Chen, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Epigenetics, Technology Development, Tumor Microenvironment
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Jingyi Wu, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Chromatin Regulation in Tumorigenesis, Immunotherapy, Lineage Tracing
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Chadi El Farran, PhD

Research Fellow
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Genomics, Computational Biology, Epigenetics, Transcriptomics
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Graduate Students

Laura Hofman

DFCI
Interests: Cancer Epigenetics, Epigenetic evolution, T cell epigenetics
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Roos Wagensveld

DFCI
Interests: DNA methylation, T cell epigenetics
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Myrthe Smit

Graduate Student
DFCI
Interests: Epigenetic Drivers of Cancer
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Daniel Fridman

Graduate Student
DFCI
Interests: Cancer Genomics, Computational Biology, Epigenetics, Regulatory elements driving cell type changes, Transcriptional Regulation, transposable elements
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Technicians

Carly Abraham

DFCI
Interests: Sarcoma
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Mahesh Natarajan

Research Technician
DFCI
Interests: biomarkers in lung and other cancers, chromatin silencing, transposable elements
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Megan Stewart

Research Technician
DFCI
Interests: Sarcoma, Single-cell technologies
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Carolina Varona Arguelles

Research Technician
DFCI
Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms driving glioma development and progression
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Josh D’Antonio

Technician
DFCI
Interests: epigenetic gene regulation, genome editing, Tumor Microenvironment
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Broad Institute Team

Liz Gaskell, PhD

Associate Director, Epigenomics Operations
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Eugenio Mattei, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Chromatin Regulation in Tumorigenesis, Epigenetics, Single-cell technologies
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Chuck Epstein, PhD

Associate Director, Chromatin state mapping
Broad Institute

Katie Irish

Operations Coordinator
Broad Institute Epigenomics Program
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Noam Shoresh, PhD

Associate Director, Computational biology
Broad Institute

Nina Farrell

Project Coordinator
Broad Institute