James Galante

PhD Student, Department of Genetics, Stanford University

About

I study gene regulation — designing Perturb-seq experiments and building models that map enhancers to genes. Interested in understanding regulatory mechanisms through mechanistic interpretability.

Publications

An unbiased survey of distal element-gene regulatory interactions with direct-capture targeted Perturb-seq (2025) Paper PDF
An encyclopedia of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome (2024) — Nature Paper
Enhancer-targeting CRISPR screens at coronary artery disease loci suggest shared mechanisms of disease risk (2025) Paper
Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function (2024) — Nature Paper PDF
Mapping enhancer-gene regulatory interactions from single-cell data (2024) — Nature Genetics Paper

Art

Connectome neuron meshes rendered in Blender — a side project for fun