Peter Sudmant
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Dept of Integrative Biology
Faculty URL
Research Group
Email
Phone
510-664-4700
Research Expertise and Interest
genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics
Research Description
The Sudmant Lab uses computational, statistical, and experimental methods to interrogate genetic and molecular phenotypic diversity at both the organismal and cellular level. We are particularly interested in studying the causes and consequences of stress and aging in organisms with a focus on post-transcriptional gene regulation, somatic mutation, and genetic adaption in long (and short) lived species.
In the News
October 7, 2022
Age vs. genetics: Which is more important for how you age?
Amid much speculation and research about how our genetics affect the way we age, a University of California, Berkeley, study now shows that individual differences in our DNA matter less as we get older and become prone to diseases of aging, such as diabetes and cancer.
November 11, 2021
Pacific rockfish and the trade-offs of a longer life
In a study appearing this week in the journal Science, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, compare the genomes of nearly two-thirds of the known species of rockfish that inhabit coastal waters around the Pacific Ocean and uncover some of the genetic differences that underlie their widely varying lifespans.