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Liana Lareau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds the Timothy & Karen Guertin Chair in Bioengineering. Lareau's research is centered on Computational Biology and Systems Synthetic Biology, focusing on how a single genome can produce significant diversity in cells and tissues required for human function. Her work aims to comprehend the regulatory layers encoded by gene sequences and how disruptions in these regulatory mechanisms can lead to diseases. To achieve this, her research employs machine learning and computational methods combined with high-throughput experiments to unravel post-transcriptional regulation, ultimately leading to robust and flexible control of gene expression. Lareau earned her PhD in Molecular Cell Biology in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds two SB degrees in Mathematics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completed in 2000. Her previous appointments include Assistant Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow in related institutions, and she has received notable accolades, such as the Shurl & Kay Curci Foundation Faculty Scholar award in 2019 and the Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2009.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering.
California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Distinguished Research Fellow.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry.
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