Dr. Alistair Boettiger

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Alistair Boettiger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine and is a member of the Bio-X Biophysics Program. He studied undergraduate Physics and Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where he developed an interest in quantitative imaging of animal development through mentorship in laboratory research. He conducted his Ph.D. research at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Michael Levine, focusing on how cis-regulatory sequences modulate the precision and robustness of gene expression, particularly in relation to shadow enhancers and paused promoters. In his postdoctoral work in Xiaowei Zhuang's single-molecule imaging group at Harvard University, he explored gene regulation through super-resolution microscopy and deep sequencing techniques. Since starting his lab at Stanford in 2016, Boettiger has aimed to enhance the understanding of how the genome influences cell behaviors in complex multicellular organisms, particularly through innovative imaging approaches that link chromatin structure with gene expression.

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