Nick Haghani, grad student

Education

• Ph.D. student, Integrative Genetics and Genomics graduate group, UC Davis (2022-current)

• B.S. Cell and Developmental Biology / Minor in Scientific Communication, UCSB (2021)

Professional Experience

• Research Assistant, Jesse Dixon Lab at Salk Research Institute (2021-2022)

• Undergraduate Researcher, Ryoko Oono Lab at UCSB (2018-2021)

Interests

• Translational Genetics and Genomics

• CRISPR gene-editing tools

• Zebrafish

• Genome Organization

Hobbies

• Track and Field

• Soccer

• Reading

Recent Publications

• Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer. Xu, Z., Lee, D.S., Chandran, S., Le, V.T., Bump, R., Yasis, J., Dallarda, S., Marcotte, S., Clock, B., Haghani, N., Cho, C.Y., Akdemir, K.C., Tyndale, S., Futreal, P.A., McVicker, G., Wahl, G.M., Dixon, J.R. Nature. 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05504-4

Contact: nkhaghani [at] ucdavis.edu