DGAC Bioinformatics Analysis Staff

Dr. Ramesh Nair
Director of the DGAC and the Bioinformatics Director

Ramesh is the Director of Bioinformatics at SCGPM and has led BaaS since its inception in FY16. He was most recently the principal bioinformatician for the CIRM-initiated Center of Excellence in Stem Cell Genomics (CESCG). He brings a diverse engineering and extensive scientific background to solve some of the biggest technical challenges in biotechnology. Prior to joining SCGPM, Ramesh was a Bioinformatics Analyst at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB). Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Senior Scientist at various Biotech firms in the Bay Area, including Cobalt Biofuels, Iconix BioSciences (now Entelos), Lynx Therapeutics (now Illumina), and DuPont. Ramesh has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, an MTech in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, and an MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University.

Meng Wang, PhD
Senior Bioinformatician

Meng is a senior bioinformatician for the BaaS team whose interests are in developing statistical methods and computational tools to better understand the complexity of biology. She was most recently a research scientist with the Snyder Lab and led the algorithm development in several projects. In the GTEx project, she was in charge of proteomics data analysis and integration, and developed several new algorithms in robust normalization and data-adaptive quantification of tissue-specificity (AdaTiSS). In the project to predict the onset of COVID-19 from wearable device data, she developed both offline and online detection algorithms to detect infection-associated heart rate anomalies from smartwatch data. Meng received her PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of California, San Diego.

Lyong Heo, MS
Staff Bioinformatician

Lyong is a staff bioinformatician for the BaaS team whose interests are in population genomics, machine learning, and NGS analysis. Prior to joining the GBSC, he was a Computational Biologist at the Van Andel Institute (VAI) in Grand Rapids, MI, where he performed bioinformatic analyses on patients with pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant in GWAS projects on metabolic diseases in population-based cohorts and Korean Reference Genome (KRG) at Korea National Institute of Health. He also managed multi-omics data at the Center for Genome Science in South Korea. Lyong received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Chungbuk National University.

 

DGAC Sequencing & Library Preparation Staff

Dr. John Coller
Genomics Director of the DGAC

Dr. Coller is the director of the Stanford Genomics Service Center (SGSC) and has been working in the genomics and molecular biology fields since 2001. He is trained as an electrical engineer and experimental particle physicist and has been working at Stanford University in the genomics field since receiving his Ph.D. in 2000. During the past 15+ years, he has been involved in the design, execution, analysis and/or management of hundreds of experiments and genomic research projects conducted within SGSC. Thus, Dr. Coller has extensive experience in the application of microarray technologies and high-throughput sequencing and has developed a number of novel technologies in these areas. Dr. Coller is a collaborator on a number of genomic technology development and research projects that are in current use by other Stanford researchers. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and has provided scientific or technical support for close to 1000 publications. Dr. Coller has the appropriate knowledge, practical experience, and training necessary to oversee NGS in the DGAC.

Nick Addleman
Research Professional

Brooke Enslen
Research Professional

Lucia Ramirez
Research Professional

Eric Wei
Research Professional