Andreas Pfenning
Associate Professor, Computational Biology Department
Address:
Computational Biology Department, SCS
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Administrative Assistant: Shelly Ossman
Over the last several decades, the genetic revolution has showed us that much of human biology, even complex behavior, is encoded in our genome. Most of the variation in genome sequence that influences neurological disease predisposition and behavioral ability occurs in the vast regulatory regions between genes. The goal of the Pfenning laboratory is to build a set of computational and experimental genomic tools to study how sequence differences in those regions influence neurons, neural circuits, disease predisposition, and behavior. By understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying neural function, we seek to uncover the cell type-specific basis of Alzheimer’s disease and addiction, as well as gain insights into how speech production ability evolved in the human lineage.
Lab Members
Ashley Brown
Lab Manager
Lahari Gadey
Lab Technician
Vijay Cherupally
Research Associate
Heather Harper Sestili
Research Programmer
Ziheng (Calvin) Chen
Ph.D. Student
Irene Kaplow
Lane Fellow
Rajee Ganesan
Ph.D. Student
Mike Leone
Ph.D. Student
BaDoi Phan
MSTP Student
Chai Srinivasan
Ph.D. Student
Cathy Su
Ph.D Student
Spencer Gibson
Masters Student
Tianyu Lu
Masters Student
Amy Zhu
Masters Student
Arian Raje
Undergraduate Student
Ruby Redlich
Undergraduate Student
Daniel Schaffer
Undergraduate Student
Amy Stephen
Undergraduate Student
Andrew Wang
Undergraduate Student