Luca Pinello

Company: Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Job title: Associate Professor

Bio:

I am a computational biologist studying the role of chromatin structure/dynamics and non-coding regions, including enhancers, promoters, insulators, and their role in gene regulation. The mission of my lab is the integration of omics data to explore and better understand the functional mechanisms of the genome and to provide accessible tools for the community to accelerate discovery in this field. The long-term goal of my research is to develop innovative computational approaches and to use cutting-edge experimental assays, such as single-cell genomics and CRISPR genome editing to systematically analyze sources of genetic and epigenetic variation that affect gene regulation in different human traits and diseases.