Baca Lab Team

People at the Baca Lab

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
Alexis Yang (MEng student): Machine learning approaches to predict impact of non-coding variants in cancer
Ze Zhang, PhD: Cell-type deconvolution from cell-free epigenomic data
Garyoung Lee, PhD: In vivo readouts of transcription factor activity from patient plasma
Razane El Hajj Chehade, MD: Minimal residual disease in kidney cancer
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

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)