Itai Yanai is a Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and the Philosophy of Science and his PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University. His lab is a pioneer of the single-cell RNA-Seq approach and its application to the functional study of development, host-pathogen interactions, and cancer cell states. The Yanai lab has used computational and experimental approaches to make contributions to diverse fields including the evolution of developmental gene expression programs, cellular plasticity and developmental constraint in tumor progression and drug resistance, and bacterial genome regulation.
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