Matteo Pellegrini

Biography

Matteo Pellegrini is a biophysicist who has served on the UCLA Life Sciences Division faculty since he joined the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology in 2005. Dr. Pellegrini earned his B.A. in Physics at Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, where he worked on computational biology. Following his postdoctoral studies, Dr. Pellegrini co-founded a start-up company and later worked for the pharmaceutical company, Merck, before returning to UCLA. His laboratory research focuses on the development of novel computational approaches to analyze large-scale genomic data. His present focus is on data produced using the latest generation of high-throughput sequencers for which he is developing suites of tools for the analysis of methC-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and Chromatin Conformation Capture seq. He joined the BMC Systems Biology editorial board in 2012.

Research Interest

Molecular Biology, Cell Biology