About Korf Lab

Contact

shahrame@stanford.edu

Shahram Emami

Genetics Graduate Student

Biography

I completed my PhD on "Computational and Molecular Studies of Intron- Mediated Enhancement (IME) of Gene Expression in A. thaliana". IME refers to increase in gene expression via mRNA accumulation that is caused by inclusion of an intron close to the start of the transcription unit. IME is NOT a classical enhancer effect. To find out more about IME read:

Rose A.B., Emami S., Bradnam K., Korf I.F. (2011) Evidence for a DNA-based mechanism of intron-mediated enhancement, Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics 2:98

Research interests

Very broadly speaking, my current professional interests are in: synthetic biology, systems biology, complexity science, applications of machine learning algorithms in mining high-throughput "omics" data and entrepreneurship.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford. My current project is to use machine learning and synthetic biology techniques to characterize cis-regulatory elements in A. thaliana.

Publications

  • Rose A.B., Emami S., Bradnam K., Korf I.F. (2011) Evidence for a DNA-based mechanism of intron-mediated enhancement, Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics 2:98
About Korf Lab

Korflab in the news


Jan 28, 2013: A Haldane's Sieve Blog Post by Keith Bradnam that discusses the Assemblathon 2 pre-print


Nov 12, 2012: a feature on Danielle Lemay by the Calfifornia Dairy Research Foundation


Mar 23, 2011: A Nature news article about genome assembly, with an interview of Ian Korf.

Contact Us

For questions or comments about the website, please e-mail:

korflab AT ucdavis DOT edu

Contact information for specific members of our lab can be found on their personal pages.