Nadav Ahituv, PhD

Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
[email protected]
+1 415 476-1838
Research Description: 

The Ahituv lab is focused on identifying gene regulatory elements and linking nucleotide variation within them to various phenotypes including morphological differences between species, drug response and human disease. In addition, our lab is developing massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) that allow for high-throughput functional characterization of gene regulatory elements and the use of gene regulatory elements as therapeutic targets or disease diagnostic markers.

Primary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Research Summary: 
Gene regulation and human disease
Mentorship Development: 

4/2019 - Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab
4/2019 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) with Sharon Milgram
6/2020 - Your Role in Workplace Diversity
10/2020 - DEI Champion Training
2/2021 - Three Truths & Three Tries: Facing & Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo & Macro Levels

Websites

Publications: 

Association of an estrogen-sensitive Pax1-Col11a1-Mmp3 signaling axis with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Yu H, Khanshour AM, Ushiki A, Otomo N, Koike Y, Einarsdottir E, Fan Y, Antunes L, Kidane YH, Cornelia R, Sheng R, Zhang Y, Pei J, Grishin NV, Evers BM, Yin Cheung JP, Herring JA, Terao C, Song YQ, Gurnett CA, Gerdhem P, Ikegawa S, Rios JJ, Ahituv N, Wise CA

Chromatin compartmentalization regulates the response to DNA damage.

Nature

Arnould C, Rocher V, Saur F, Bader AS, Muzzopappa F, Collins S, Lesage E, Le Bozec B, Puget N, Clouaire T, Mangeat T, Mourad R, Ahituv N, Noordermeer D, Erdel F, Bushell M, Marnef A, Legube G

Best practices for perturbation MPRA-a computational evaluation framework of sequence design strategies.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Liu J, Ashuach T, Inoue F, Ahituv N, Yosef N, Kreimer A

Milk antibody response after 3rd COVID-19 vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 infection and implications for infant protection.

iScience

Golan Y, Ilala M, Li L, Gay C, Hunagund S, Lin CY, Cassidy AG, Jigmeddagva U, Matsui Y, Ozarslan N, Asiodu IV, Ahituv N, Flaherman VJ, Gaw SL, Prahl M

Characterization of enhancer activity in early human neurodevelopment using Massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) and forebrain organoids.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Capauto D, Wang Y, Wu F, Norton S, Mariani J, Inoue F, Crawford GE, PsychENCODE Consortium, Ahituv N, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM