Single Cell Seminar Series
Single Cell Seminar Series: Jason Buenrostro
Seminar Series Details:
About Jason Buenrostro (Harvard)
- Associate member, Broad Institute
- Alvin and Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (Harvard)
- Broad Fellows program at the Broad (former)
- Junior fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows
About this Class
The Buenrostro lab is broadly dedicated to advancing our knowledge of gene regulation and the downstream consequences on cell fate decisions. To do this, the Buenrostro lab develops new technologies utilizing molecular biology, microscopy and bioinformatics approaches and applies these tools to study stem cells in normal, ageing and cancer tissues in effort to discover chromatin regulators and their contribution to disease.
ATAC-seq was first developed by Buenrostro and colleagues in 2013 and its use is now ubiquitous in genomics — for example in major efforts like the Human Cell Atlas project to understand and map genome function. As a reflection of the impact of this work, MIT’s Technology Review named Buenrostro as one of its 2019 "Innovators under 35".