Current Personnel

Lisa Hall PhD
Associate Professor 
BA: The Colorado College, Biology
PhD: Univ. California-Davis, Genetics

Lisa Hall is a co-investigator with Dr. Jeanne Lawrence on numerous research projects pertaining to nuclear structure and epigenetic regulation of the genome. Lisa’s main research interest is studying how long non-coding RNAs interact with chromatin, the functional importance of the repeat genome in gene regulation and nuclear structure, as well as our ongoing project silencing the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome patient cells using targeted integration of an XIST transgene. Lisa was also the Assistant Director for the human medical genetics course here at UMass Chan from 2002-2010, and she continues to teach and help administer the course.

	Meg Byron Senior Research Scientist BA: Framingham State College
	Khusali Gupta, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow PhD: University of Massachusetts Medical School MS: University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
	Tingting Huang, PhD Research Specialist PhD: University of Massachusetts Medical School
	Pankti Gosar Bioinformatician MS: Northeastern University
	Eric Larsen Graduate Student BS: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
	Yuanchun Jing Research Associate I BS: Shenyang Institute of Technology