Alistair Boettiger
Associate Professor
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlistair Boettiger is an Associate Professor in Developmental Biology at Stanford who combines quantitative high-resolution imaging, transgenic manipulation, and minimalist physics-based modeling to reveal how 3D genome organization controls gene expression and cell fate. With a PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and postdoctoral training in the Zhuang Lab at Harvard, he has built a lab that integrates single-molecule imaging in vertebrate cells and Drosophila embryos with high-throughput image analysis software. Over nine years of faculty experience, he has translated mechanistic insights into scalable computational tools that drive hypothesis generation across datasets. Notably, his work pairs elegant experimental design with simple, predictive mathematical models—an approach that often exposes regulatory principles not apparent from sequencing alone. Based in Palo Alto, he maintains an active lab website and a research profile that bridges physics, computation, and developmental genetics.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at University of California, BerkeleyAB, Physics, AB, Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (4)
segmentation6
hal4
python3
pyqt1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BoettigerLab/model-transcription-looping
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 1 push, 2 tags in 3 years 7 months
BoettigerLab/protocols
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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