Sierra Nishizaki, Ph.D.

Boyle Lab Ph.D. alumnus

Sierra Nishizaki, Ph.D.

Human Genetics Ph.D. Student

Boyle Lab history

  • Human Genetics Ph.D. student January 2015–September 2020

Research

Research areas

  • Non-coding variation
  • Zebrafish models
  • Gene Regulation

Training

Education

  • B.S.San Francisco State University

Recognition

Honors and awards

  • Genome Science Training Program
  • Rackham Merit Fellow
  • Rackham Summer Award
  • Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (candidate)

Biography

Background

Sierra Nishizaki’s PhD research focuses on expanding our knowledge of the non- coding genome. To do this they are both working with zebrafish to identify and characterize new regulatory elements from the human genome and designing software to predict disease-relevant variation within these regions.

Research output

Boyle Lab publications

4 publications