Faculty and Board 

Faculty members

• Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD, Director
• Bogi Andersen, MD
• Pierre Baldi, PhD
• Tallie Baram, MD, PhD
• Bruce Blumberg, PhD
• Emiliana Borrelli, PhD
• Xing Dai, PhD
• Timothy Downing, PhD
• Enrico Gratton, PhD
• Peter Kaiser, PhD
• Fabio Macciardi, MD, PhD
• Selma Masri, PhD
• Ali Mortazavi, PhD
• Suzanne Sandmeyer, PhD
• Yongsheng Shi, PhD
• Joan Steffan, PhD
• Leslie Thompson, PhD
• Marcelo Wood, PhD
• Qin Yang, MD
• Kyoko Yokomori, PhD, DVM
• Xiaolin Zi, PhD

External Members

• Ruslan Afasizhev, PhD, Boston University
• Roberto Coppari, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Axel Imhof, PhD, Adolf-Butenandt Institut University of Munich, Germany
• Sarkis Mazmanian, PhD, California Institute of Technology
• Giuseppe Servillo, MD, PhD, University of Perugia, Italy
• Valerio Orlando, PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Administration

Wen Ding

Assistant to the Director
Phone: 949-824-2961
Fax: 949-824-2078

Board of Advisors

C. David Allis, PhD
Professor
Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
The Rockefeller University, New York

Johan Auwerx, MD, PhD
Professor
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
Lausanne, Switzerland

Shelley L. Berger, PhD
Professor
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Ronald M. Evans, PhD
Professor
Gene Expression Laboratory
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego

Peter A. Jones, PhD
VARI Chief Scientific Officer
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Epigenetics
Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI