Hernan G. Garcia
Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development
Lab Homepage: http://garcialab.berkeley.edu/
Research Interests
In development a single cell goes through a series of repeated divisions and these cells read the program encoded in their DNA in order to become familiar cell types such as those found in muscle, liver or our brains. The goal of our lab is to uncover the rules behind these decisions with the objective of predicting and manipulating developmental programs from just looking at DNA sequence. In order to reach this predictive understanding we combine physics, synthetic biology and new technologies to query and control developmental decisions in real time at the single cell level in the fruit fly embryo.
Selected Publications
Books
Physical Biology of the Cell, 2nd edition, Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot and Hernan G. Garcia, Garland Science, New York, (2013).
Publications
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Photo credit: Mark Hanson at Mark Joseph Studios.
Last Updated 2015-01-28