Lisa F. Barcellos, PhD, MPH
- Core Faculty Member, Center for Computational Biology, College of Computing, Data Science and Society
- Director, Undergraduate Public Health Major Program
- Director, Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Laboratory
Biography
Lisa F. Barcellos is a Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty Member of the Center for Computational Biology and the Director of Undergraduate Public Health Major Program. Lisa Barcellos received her PhD in Immunology (emphasis Immunogenetics) and MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow in genetic epidemiology/biostatistics at UC San Francisco. She is a genetic epidemiologist specializing in diseases of the immune system and is working to identify genetic/genomic, environmental and epigenetic factors that predispose people to autoimmune diseases and other health outcomes, and that modulate disease expression and clinical progression.
Much of her research, to date, has centered on multiple sclerosis (MS). She is collaborating with other scientists at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Southern California and UC San Francisco Department of Neurology. She and colleagues at UC San Francisco and NIH/National Genome Research Institute are also leading studies focused on systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren’s disease. She and colleagues at Sonoma Technology, Inc. and Stanford University are collaborating on studies focused on environmental factors such as exposure to wildfire smoke and changes to the epigenome and related health outcomes.
Research Interests
- Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases
- Identification of genetic and environmental risk factors for multiple sclerosis
- Genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and autoimmune disease
- Maternal-child histocompatibility and risk of autoimmune disease
- Epigenetic contributions to autoimmune disease and other health outcomes Impact of environmental exposures on the epigenome
- Application of causal inference methods to autoimmune disease studies
Education
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PhD – Immunology
University of California, Berkeley -
MPH – Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley
Publications
Courses Taught
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- Spring | PB HLTH 150A
- Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Disease
- Spring | PB HLTH 256
- Human Genome, Environment and Public Health
- Fall | PB HLTH H195A/B
- Honors Thesis Program for Undergraduates in Public Health