Principal Investigator

Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology,

Institute of Genomic Biology,

Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Postdoc      University of California, San Francisco

Postdoc      Johns Hopkins University

M.D./PhD   Temple University Medicine/Biophysics

AB               Princeton University, Physics

I’ve always been a very visual person.  Much of my research has been driven simply by wanting to answer the obvious questions that spring to mind while looking at microscopy images of the cell nucleus.  Recently, our laboratory has ventured into sequencing based methods, but ones we develop and/or modify to better predict and/or interpret what we might actually see looking in the microscope. 

Hobbies/Passion: My main hobby is pretty much trying to come up with ideas for how to answer some of these questions.  My work is everything else needed to implement whatever is needed to answer these questions, including funding, recruiting, and working with the research group that will actually provide the answers to these questions.

Additional hobbies include skiing, fly fishing, playing basketball poorly, and, most recently, trying to get smiles and laughs from my three grandchildren.

Email ID: asbel@illinois.edu