Douglas Phanstiel
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Phanstiel is an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill with 12 years of experience investigating how long-range DNA loops control gene regulation during human development. Trained as a PhD analytical chemist and with postdoctoral work at Stanford, he combines quantitative sequencing, computational analysis, and genome-editing approaches to map dynamic, cell-type-specific chromatin interactions. His lab focuses on filling key gaps—time-resolved loop datasets, differential loop analysis tools, and improved perturbation methods—to reveal mechanisms behind disease-associated regulatory variants. Based in Chapel Hill and affiliated with the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, he blends rigorous experimental design with software-driven interpretation to make complex 3D genome biology tractable.
12 years of coding experience
PhD, Analytical Chemistry, PhD, Analytical Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, BS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UCSD
Github Skills (34)
cancer-genomics10
r-package9
bedtools9
wrapping9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
genome8
python8
visualization8
journal5
academia4
browser4
angularjs4
creative-commons4
extensible4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dphansti/CORAL
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:132 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 8 months
PhanstielLab/Sushi
Feb 2014 - Aug 2018
Tools for visualizing genomics data
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 4 years 6 months
pythongenomics-datagenomicsbioinformaticsvisualizing
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