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Yifan Sun

Yifan Sun

Graduate Student

Program

  • Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences

Contact Information

Biography

Mentor: Constanza Garcia-Keller, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2025
Previous Education: BA, Molecular & Cell Biology and Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Currently interested in functional genomics of non-coding genes, and applying gene editing technology (CRISPRi/a, PE) for screening of potentially pathogenic variation in human iPSC model.

Publications

Ren X, Zheng L, Maliskova L, Tam TW, Sun Y, Liu H, Lee J, Takagi MA, Li B, Ren B, Wang W, Shen Y. CRISPR tiling deletion screens reveal functional enhancers of neuropsychiatric risk genes and allelic compensation effects (ACE) on transcription. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Oct 10:2024.10.08.616922. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.08.616922. PMID: 39416108; PMCID: PMC11483005.

Ren X*, Yang H*, Nierenberg JL, Sun Y, Chen J, Beaman C, Pham T, Nobuhara M, Takagi MA, Narayan V, Li Y, Ziv E, Shen Y. High throughput PRIME editing screens identify functional DNA variants in the human genome. Molecular Cell. 2023 Dec 21;83(24):4633-4645.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.11.021. PMID: 38134886; PMCID: PMC10766087. (*These authors contributed equally.)

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