The Myers laboratory uses genetic, genomic and computational techniques to study a variety of problems concerned with understanding the molecular bases of human inherited traits, including diseases, the regulation of gene expression at a genome-wide level, and, more recently, evolution. These projects are done at the Medical School campus and at the Stanford Human Genome Center, another laboratory directed by Dr. Myers, in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Of note:

The MyersLab is moving! Rick is moving his lab and the Stanford Human Genome Center to Huntsville Alabama in July 2008 to the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. A portion of the Genome Center will remain at Stanford until December 2008. Detailed new contact information will appear here and at hudsonalpha.org.

ChIP-Seq The Myers Lab collaborated with Barbara Wold and her lab to develop ChIP-Seq, in which DNA fragments bound to specific proteins are immunoprecipitated from chromatin and then sequenced to great depth by next-generation sequencing technology. The paper appeared in Science 316: 1497-1502. Fields-Stan-ChIPSeq Perspective-2007.pdf Johnson-ChIPSeq-Science-2007.pdf

MyersLab ChIP Protocol: The pdf describes the Myers Lab's procedures for performing chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). ChIP Protocol-Myerslab-112607.pdf

Our recent human population genetics study The Myers Lab collaborated with Hua Tang, Greg Barsh, Marc Feldman, Luca Cavalli-Sforza and their labs to genotype 650,000 SNPs in almost 1,000 people from 51 different populations. This study of the Human Genome Diversity Panel provides a detailed analysis of human relationships based on genetic variation. The paper was published in Science 319: 1100-1104. LiAbsher-Science-HGDP.pdf LiAbsher-SOM-HGDP.pdf

See Rick Myers's Stanford Academic Profile at: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=facProfile&fid=4253