Barbara Engelhardt

Appointment

Fellow

CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human

Connect

About

My research builds models to find structure and patterns hidden in noisy biological data, and uses those patterns to generate hypotheses about the dysregulation in genes and cells that leads to disease.

Awards

Caltech Merkin Distinguished Visiting Professorship (2022-2024)
ISCB Overton Prize, 2021
NSF CAREER Award (2018-2022)
Sloan Faculty Fellowship (2016-2018)
Walter M. Fitch Prize from Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2004)

Relevant Publications

Townes, F.W. & Engelhardt, B.E. (2023). Nonnegative spatial factorization for spatial genomics. Nature Methods, 20, 229--238. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01687-w
Jones, A. & Townes, F.W. & Li, D. & Engelhardt, B.E. (2023). Alignment of spatial genomics and histology data using deep Gaussian processes. Nature Methods (accepted) bioRxiv:475692
Dumitrascu, B. & Villar, S. & Mixon, D.G. & Engelhardt, B.E. (2021). Optimal marker gene selection for cell type discrimination in single cell analyses. Nature Communications, 12:1186. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21453-4

Institution

Gladstone Institutes

Stanford University

Department

Biomedical Data Science

Education

PhD (EECS), University of California, Berkeley
MS (Computer Science), Stanford University
BS (Symbolic Systems), Stanford University

Country

United States

Support Us

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is a globally influential research organization proudly based in Canada. We mobilize the world’s most brilliant people across disciplines and at all career stages to advance transformative knowledge and solve humanity’s biggest problems, together. We are supported by the governments of Canada, Alberta and Québec, as well as Canadian and international foundations, individuals, corporations and partner organizations.

Donate Now

Follow Us