Laura Gauthier

Laura is a computational biologist jointly based in the MacArthur lab and the Broad Institute Data Sciences and Data Engineering (DSDE) platform. She works on the development of variant-calling pipelines for rare disease samples. […]

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Julia Goodrich

Julia is a postdoctoral fellow in Daniel MacArthur’s group. She completed her Ph.D. in Genetics in 2016 at Cornell University, examining the role of host genetics in shaping gut microbiome composition. For her postdoctoral work, she is broadly interested in developing methods to improve the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases. Currently, she is focused on […]

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Kristen Laricchia

Kristen is an associate computational biologist who works on the preliminary analyses and management of datasets for the Exome Aggregation Consortium and novel gene discovery for Mendelian diseases. […]

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Irina Armean

Irina is a postdoctoral scientist interested in the functional annotation of protein-truncating variants and their impact on human biology. She studied protein function annotation via protein complexes during her PhD at the University of Cambridge, and worked on de novo genome assembly and gene annotation at European Bioinformatics Institute before joining the lab.   […]

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Harindra Arachchi

Harindra is part of the Engineering team at the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics at ATGU. Prior to that, he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and was with the Cancer group at the Broad Institute of MIT. He works on developing software tools and methods that help study rare genetic diseases. He has […]

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Samantha Baxter

Samantha is the clinical project manager at the Broad Institute’s Center for Mendelian Genomics. She is a genetic counselor who has worked in the area of cardiovascular genetics and now focuses on the management and sharing of both clinical and genetic data. […]

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Katherine Chao

Katherine is a computational biologist conducting exome analyses for families with rare disease. Before joining the Broad, she worked in the NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program. […]

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Beryl Cummings

Beryl is a research fellow supervised by Daniel MacArthur and Mark Daly. Her research focuses on the integration of functional genomics, specifically transcriptome sequencing into genetic variant interpretation. She received her PhD from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard Medical School working in the Medical and Population Genetics program and ATGU. twitter handle […]

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Dan Birnbaum

Daniel worked as a computational analyst focused on investigating the impact of loss-of-function (LoF) variation in healthy humans and developing quantitative methods for assessing the veracity of splice site annotations. He is now a graduate student at Harvard. […]

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Matthew Aguire

Matt is an undergraduate student at Harvard who worked on developing machine learning methods for variant filtration. […]

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