Associate Professor, Human Genetics and Psychiatry; Research Scientist, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics; UCLA
Featured Speaker: Stanley F. Nelson, M.D.
Associate Professor, Human Genetics and Psychiatry; Research Scientist,
Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics; UCLA
Stanley F. Nelson, M.D., is Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received a B.S. in physics from the University of Michigan in 1982, and he graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1987. He trained in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; and while training as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Patrick Brown from 1990 to 1993, Dr. Nelson developed genomic mismatch scanning and initiated the lab development of DNA microarrays for genomic applications.
As a UCLA faculty member since 1993, Dr. Nelson has pursued his ongoing interests in the development of technology and the application of genomics to cancer biology and common human diseases. A central component of his lab is developing novel technologies and methodologies for high throughput genetic analyses. The lab is active in elucidating the genetic susceptibility to autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, vertigo, and ataxia using large-scale polymorphism and sequence analysis. The lab also is dissecting high-grade gliomas, the most common and lethal form of human brain cancer, using genomic technologies to develop molecularly based classification schemes and to provide leads for the development of novel targeted therapeutics for gliomas.
Learning Objectives:
Shape-Encoded Particles for Multiplex Analyses—Stanley F. Nelson, M.D.