Melissa Gymrek

Melissa Gymrek

Associate Professor of Medicine and Computer Science and Engineering
Website
https://gymreklab.com/
Email
mgymrek@ucsd.edu

Teams and Collaborators
Vineet Bafna
Vikas Bansal
Matteo D’Antonio
Alon Goren
Kelly A. Frazer
Abraham Palmer
Jonathan Sebat
Approaches
Bioinformatics, high-throughput sequencing, computational biology

Our overall goal is to understand complex genetic variants that underlie human disease. We are particularly interested in repetitive DNA variants known as short tandem repeats (STRs) as a model for complex variation.