Affinity Group IV: Gene-Environment Interactions Affinity Group (GEI)
Affinity Group Leader: Marisa Bartolomei
Group Description
Aim: The mission of the GEI affinity group is to elucidate the interaction of environmental exposures with genotype and epigenotype that underpin phenotypes that affect individual susceptibility to disease, its prevention and treatment. There is increased focus on mechanisms by which environmental exposures alter patterns of gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms.
Gene-Environment Interactions Affinity Group Members
Marisa Bartolomei (Group Leader)
Research Interest: DNA Methylation and Gene Imprinting
Research Interest: Oxidative Stress, Biomarkers of Human Disease
Jason Christie
Research Interest: Acute Lung Injury and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Elizabeth A. Heller
Research Interest: The Causal Mechanisms by which Epigenetic Reprogramming Contributes to Neuropsychiatric Disease
Research Interest: Asthma Genetic Susceptibility
Guo-Li Ming
Research Interest: Understanding the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders with a Developmental Origin
Jason H. Moore
Research Interest: Bioinformatics Methods for Gene-environment Interaction Analysis
Katherine Nathanson
Research Interest: Genetic Susceptibility Testicular Germ Cell Tumors
Trevor Penning
Research Interest: Human-Aldo Reductase (AKR) Genes in Hormonal and Chemical Carcinogenesis
Jennifer Pinto-Martin
Research Interest: Gene-Environment Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Research Interest: The Regulation and Function of Sleep
Research Interest: Gastro-Intestinal Cancers
Research Interest: How UV-irradiation Promotes Skin Cancer
Sarah Tishkoff
Research Interest: African Genetic Diversity
Aalim Weljie
Research Interest: Metabolomics and the Genome
