Dr. Chris Gregg, PhD
I completed my PhD in Canada with Gairdner Award winner, Dr. Samuel Weiss (University of Calgary), who discovered adult neural stem cells in the brain. In 2004, I participated in the founding of a biotechnology company called Stem Cell Therapeutics, which developed treatments for Stroke & Multiple Sclerosis. Following this, I was awarded a Human Frontiers Fellowship and moved to Harvard University to train as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Catherine Dulac (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and was among the first to develop RNASeq for allele-specific expression analysis. I was awarded the 2010 Eppendorf & Science Prize and became a New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson-Neuroscience Investigator. Currently, I am a tenured professor at the University of Utah in Departments of Neurobiology & Human Genetics. My research is focused on understanding how gene regulatory mechanisms shape brain functions and complex behavior patterns in health and disease. I love ideas, discovery and working with and mentoring creative people!
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy and Human Genetics University of Utah School of Medicine
Scientists in my laboratory are developing novel technologies to understand genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in the brain that influence brain function and disease. We have developed novel approaches that allow us to study differences in the behavior and function of the gene copies we inherit from our mother compared to our father. The lab is highly interdisciplinary. Computer scientists focus on the development of new software and data analysis and visualization technologies to analyze genome-scale data and high-throughput behavior data. Bench scientists in the lab are developing novel behavioral screens, as well as molecular biology, genome engineering and imaging approaches to study brain function and behavior. We have particular interests in feeding and motivated behaviors, and in autism, addiction and eating disorder research.
Postdoctoral Fellow - Catherine Dulac Laboratory
Harvard University
As a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Catherine Dulac in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at Harvard University, my research focused on the development of novel genomics approaches based on high throughput sequencing technology to understand how genes influence sexually dimorphic brain functions and behaviors.
PhD - Neuroscience
University of Calgary
PhD was performed in neural stem cell biology under the supervision of Dr. Samuel Weiss. Dr. Weiss is best known for his discovery of adult neural stem cells in 1992 and the development of the neurosphere culture system.