Dario Boffelli

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Assistant Adjunct Professor
School of Natural Sciences
Email 
dboffelli@ucmerced.edu
Website 
www.chori.org/Principal_Investigators/Boffelli_Dario/boffelli_overview.html
Office
Phone 
510-450-7994
Research Interests 
  • Genetic variation and evolution
  • Cytosine methylation as a carrier of heritable information
  • Epigenetics of aging
  • High-throughput sequencing to study the function of the genome
  • Assigning functional significance to non-coding sequence variation in the human genome
Education 
  • Post-doc, 2000 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Post-doc, 1998 — Stanford University Medical School
  • Ph.D., 1996 — Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
  • B.S., 1990 — University of Rome "La Sapienza"