Welcome to the Shen laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco!
We are part of the Institute for Human Genetics and the Department of Neurology.
We are a functional genomics lab interested in investigating fundamental mechanisms of transcriptional control underlying cellular function. We utilize human pluripotent stem cells to model development and diseases and innovative genomic and genetic tools to investigate how regulatory elements affect gene expression. Specifically, we focus on elucidating the causal relationship between genetic and epigenetic variations in regulatory sequences (e.g., enhancers) in the context of development and diseases and how these factors interplay to control gene regulation in mammalian cells.
