Principal Investigator
Brunilda Balliu
Bruna is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Computational Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Before that, she was an Independent Fellow in the Department of Computational Medicine. She did her postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Stephen Montgomery, focusing on methods to understand the role of inherited variation on molecular and complex traits, and her Ph.D. in Statistical Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands with Prof. Dr. Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Stefan Boehringer. She obtained a BSc. in Statistics from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece. Outside work, she has been obsessed with salsa dancing since she saw these two dancing.
Current Members
Lena Krockenberger, Rotation Ph.D. Student
Lena is a Bioinformatics Ph.D. student at UCLA working on methods for trans-eQTL
mapping in single-cell RNA-Seq and bulk multi-context data.
Jerome Freudenberg, Rotation Ph.D. Student
Jerome is a Bioinformatics Ph.D. student at UCLA working on methods for joint allele-
specific expression and chromatin accessibility analyses in single-cell multiome RNA-
Seq and ATAC seq data.
Stephanie Weber, Master Student
Stephanie is a Master's student in Human Genetics & Genomic Data Analytics at the
Keck Graduate Institute. She is working on dynamic (temporal) cis-eQTL mapping in
single-cell data using allele-specific expression analyses.
Yuxuan Xia, Undergraduate Student
Yuxuan is an undergraduate student in Computational and Systems Biology minoring
in Data Science Engineering at UCLA. She is working in cis-eQTL mapping in single-cell data.
Lab Alumni
Andrew Lu, Rotation Ph.D. student
Andrew is an MD-PhD student in the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training
Program. During his rotation in the lab, Andrew worked on context-specific cis-eQTL
mapping in multi-context genomic studies. The preprint is now available on BioRxiv!
He is currently in Michael Elowitz’s lab at Caltech.