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We are interested in how cells in the nervous system make decisions to turn genes on or off, and how those decisions are remembered in processes such as development and plasticity, or neurological disease and injury. The goal of the Meffert lab is to gain a…

Greg Newby is an Assistant Professor in the McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine and jointly affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.His research interests include the development of efficient genome editing tools to correct genetic disease mutations as well as studying the regulatory landscape of…

Research Interests: Genome biology, gene regulation, neuroepigenetics, addiction, neurodevelopmental disorders, genome architecture, single cell genomics, early mammalian development, spatial genomics.