Dan Wagner
Assistant Professor at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Wagner is an Assistant Professor and investigator at UCSF and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub who leverages eight years of postdoctoral and faculty experience to dissect genetic programs of vertebrate development using zebrafish. His lab blends in vivo imaging, CRISPR genetics, and single-cell transcriptomics with custom bioinformatics to connect gene function to developmental phenotypes and disease mechanisms. Trained at MIT and Harvard with HHMI and K99/R00 fellowships, he combines deep experimental rigor with quantitative analysis and hands-on mentorship in single-cell methods. Based in San Francisco, he is known for translating high-resolution embryology into tractable genetic models and for teaching practical single-cell sequencing workshops that bridge wet-lab and computational practice.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Biology, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Biology, Chemistry at Haverford CollegePostdoc, Postdoc at Harvard University
Github Skills (9)
rna-seq9
datamaps8
gene-expression8
sequencing7
python-scripts7
bioinformatics7
graph5
time-series4
rust1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wagnerde/STITCH
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Assembles a graph manifold from time series single-cell RNAseq data
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year
graphrna-seqtime-series
WagnerLabUCSF/scToolsRNA-py
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:278 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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