Doug defends his thesis on gene expression / disease mediation and efficient perturbational screens! π
Doug Yao successfully defended his thesis in the Harvard Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology (SSQB) program. The thesis builds upon his recent published work:
Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq
D Yao, L Binan, J Bezney, B Simonton, J Freedman, CJ Frangieh, K Dey, K Geiger-Schuller, B Eraslan, A Gusev[+], A Regev[+], Brian Cleary[+]
Nature Biotechnology. 2023
Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels
D Yao, LJ OβConnor, AL Price, A Gusev
Nature Genetics. 2020
Congrats Dr. Yao!