We are an interdisciplinary research group that combines expertise from physics, genomics, molecular biology and materials science to study complex biological systems with single cell resolution, at very high throughput, and in context of their native environments. We are jointly affiliated with the department of Medicine at UChicago and Center for Nanoscale Systems at ANL.

We develop and apply key technologies that allow single-cell epi-genomic and transcriptomic profiling of as many as 104-105 cells, including mammalian and microbial cells such as bacteria and yeasts, using microfluidics and next-gen sequencing, with applications in basic and translational research.

We also develop tools to study inter-cellular interactions in complex biological systems in context of environment, as well as physical and chemical techniques to systematically perturb them.

We expect our work will help create better taxonomy of cells in complex tissues, relate epi-genomics to transcription at a single cell level, and decipher inter-cellular interactions in healthy and diseased systems. This will help us understand systems-level cellular organization and function as part of complex biological environments.