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Seth Shipman, PhD
Assistant Professor
What I do
My lab develops molecular biotechnology to overcome technical hurdles that prevent us from effectively understanding and treating disease. We're particularly interested in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.
Departmental research area
Degrees
PhD, University of California, San Francisco, 2012
Biography
Dr. Seth Shipman's research focuses on cellular systems in the midst of change. His lab seeks to better understand how the order of transcriptional events during development can drive changes in cell fate, and to better intervene in diseases characterized by change, like progressive neurodegeneration and cancer. His lab takes a molecular engineering approach, leveraging the versatility of DNA as a programmable biological polymer to gather data without destroying cells, and deliver therapeutics that can modify their effect based on cell context.
Research keywords
Space Perception, Genome, Bacterial, CRISPR-Cas Systems, PDZ Domains, biotechnology, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal, Motion Pictures, Pyramidal Cells, Receptors, AMPA, CA1 Region, Hippocampal, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Gene Editing, synthetic biology, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, Hippocampus