Selin Jessa

Selin Jessa is a computational biologist interested in the genetic regulation underpinning brain development, and how these processes are perturbed in disease. As a postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Dr. William Greenleaf and Dr. Anshul Kundaje, she is applying deep learning methods to large-scale datasets single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic datasets in the context of normal fetal development, as well as neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, to study the logic of cis and trans gene regulation.

Selin's previous work as a graduate student in Dr. Claudia Kleinman's laboratory at McGill University focused on identifying candidate cell-of-origin in several subtypes of deadly pediatric brain tumors. Selin is also an advocate for scientific reproducibility and data sharing in genomics, and has developed tutorials, resources, and code repositories to promote bioinformatics reproducibility.