Baca Lab Team

Baca Lab Mentees

Gunsagar Gulati, MD, PhD: Methods development and translational applications of cell-free epigenomics

David Osei-Hwedieh, MD, PhD: Circulating cell-free epigenomics of bone cancers

Paulo Da Silva Cordeiro (PhD student): Computational methods development for fragmentomics

Ze Zhang, PhD: Cell-type deconvolution from cell-free epigenomic data

Garyoung Lee, PhD: In vivo readouts of transcription factor activity from patient plasma

Yukun Ou (MS Student): Nucleosome repositioning signals in cell-free DNA

David Jin: Scalable chromatin QTL discovery

Surya Chhetri, PhD: Characterizing genetic risk of cancer with chromatin QTLs

Chris Hemauer (PhD Student): Deconvolution of cell types and states from cfDNA

Siyan Lin (MS Student): Quantitative measurements of chromatin states using cfChIP-seq

Elio Ibrahim, MD: Determinants of circulating tumor DNA levels

Rashad Nawfal MD: Development of liquid biopsy methods for noninvasive inference of tumor gene expression

Lab Alumni

Ziwei Zhang, MS (currently a PhD student at Harvard School of Public Health)

Soumya Zacharia, MS (currently a software engineer at Beebolt)

Jesslyn Goh, MS (currently a software developer at InterSystems)

Talal El Zarif, MD (currently an Internal Medicine resident at Yale)

Brad Fortunato, MS (currently a bioinformatics software developer at BIDMC)

Karl Semaan, MD (currently an Internal Medicine at BWH)

Shahab Sotudian, PhD (currently a senior data scientist at IEEE)

Chris Dall, MD (currently a urologic oncology surgeon at BWH)

Alexis Yang, MEng (currently a Life Sciences consultant at ZS Associates)

Razane El Hajj Chehade, MD (currently a Pediatrics resident at University of Pittsburgh)