Mission

Cellular events are governed not only by genomic sequences, but also by epigenomic programming. Understanding the relationship between epigenomic programming and global gene expressions provide critical insights on cellular processes. For example, healthy cells will have different epigenomes compare with diseased cells, knowing the differences in their epigenomes allow us to evaluate the importance of epigenetic changes in health and diseases.

Our mission is to produce reference epigenomes of relavent human cell types, which will be valuable assets for dissecting important cellular mechanisms and developing novel clinical approaches targeting various human diseases. In doing so, we hope to set the field of epigenomics in motion for researchers with various research interests.