The Madhani lab investigates gene regulation in health and disease

This is what the banner says, but in reality, we work on anything we find cool.  Why?  Because our aspiration is to not only discover new knowledge but also new principles.  Accomplishing this higher goal requires intellectual curiosity, adventurousness, and nimbleness (and a sense of humor!).  The lab is best known for its work on regulation of chromatin, RNA-based regulation, and host-fungal pathogen interactions (see our publications here).  Depending on the question, the lab exploits different model systems, including the opportunistic pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans, which the lab has developed as both a model organism and a model pathogen, as well as mice and haploid human cells.

We are currently actively recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. 

News

July 1, 2024
Patrick Hecht joins the lab as a tech.
Welcome!

March 5, 2024
Tian Tian joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

February 1, 2024
Kyle Cesar joins the lab as a tech. Welcome!

January 5, 2024
Liz Hong joins the lab a postdoctoral fellow and Daniel Darling starts his Winter quarter rotation. Welcome!

December 1, 2022
Sanjita Banerjee joins the lab as a Specialist. Welcome!

September 12, 2022
Em Segraves and Angela Wei join the lab as techs! Welcome!

January 7, 2020
Manning Huang joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

October, 14, 2019
Meenakshi Belekar Joshi joins the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow.
Welcome!

August 1, 2019
Matt Nalley, a student in the Tetrad Program, joins the lab. Welcome!

July 3, 2019
Susan Lei joins the lab as a Staff Research Associate to study innate immunity mechanisms in macrophages. Welcome!

May 1, 2019
Daniela Perry joins the laboratory as a Bioinformatics Programmer. Welcome!

April 8, 2019
Irene Beusch joins the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow to investigate RNA biology. Welcome!

February 1, 2019
Michael Boucher joins the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow to investigate mechanisms of fungal virulence. Welcome!

October 1, 2018
Welcome to our Fall quarter rotation students Yewande Alabi (BMS) and Matt Nalley (Tetrad)!

June 1, 2018
Nebat Ali joins the laboratory as a Summer Research Training Program Student.  Nebat is at San Jose State in the laboratory or Miri Van Hoven, a former UCSF Tetrad Program Student.  We are delighted to have you in the lab!

May 1, 2018
Eric Dang joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the interface between the innate immune system and fungi. Welcome!