Welcome
We are a discovery-driven research group working at the interface between organismal biology, bioengineering, and statistical physics. We combine quantitative imaging, functional genomics, and physical modeling to understand the fundamental rules that control collective cell behaviors to optimize tissue regeneration, adaptation, and evolution.
Watch an introductory video about a model system and some problems we work on.
Group Updates
Sept. 2024. Chew Chai is named a Siebel Scholar. (read more)
Sept. 2024. The Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program funds two of our collaborative projects: to develop engineered protein sensors for neural circuit discovery with Xiaojing Gao and Alice Ting, and to understand deer antler regeneration to enhance human bone repair with Peter Yang and Stanley Qi. (read more)
May 2024. Dania Nanes Sarfati's work on the regeneration of a photosymbiotic acoel is published in Nature Communications and featured by Stanford Report (read more | video about the system). Her work is also highlighted in Scientific American.
Aug. 2023. Our work on Expansion Spatial Transcriptomics is published in Nature Methods and highlighted by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. (read more)
Jul. 2023. Yuhang Fan's work on systemic regeneration responses is published in Cell and highlighted in Stanford News. (read more)
Jun. 2023. Souradeep Sarkar is awarded a Stanford School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Support
We thank our sponsors (current and past): Beckman Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Bio-X, Baxter Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Human Frontier Science Program, Hellman Fellows Fund, NIH, NSF, Volkswagen Foundation, Woods Institute, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.