Charlotte Brannon

PhD Student

Stanford University, Dept. of Biology

Hi!

I am a PhD candidate at Stanford University studying cell, molecular, and organismal biology. I work in the Prakash Lab, where I am funded by the NIH/NIGMS Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. I study collective cell behavior in simple multicellular systems.

I graduated from Yale University in May 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and in English Literature. During my time at Yale, I had the opportunity to work with Thierry Emonet, Martin Ackermann (at ETH Zurich), and Mark Gerstein. Through these research experiences, I developed an interest in collective cell behavior, along with skills in experimental biology, computational genomics, and mathematical modeling.

Publications

Charlotte Brannon, Manu Prakash (2025). Cilia-driven epithelial folding and unfolding in an early diverging animal. In PNAS.

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Graham S. Erwin, Gamze Gürsoy, Rashid Al-Abri, Ashwini Suriyaprakash, Egor Dolzhenko, Kevin Zhu, Christian R. Hoerner, Shannon M. White, Lucia Ramirez, Ananya Vadlakonda, Alekhya Vadlakonda, Konor von Kraut, Julia Park, Charlotte Brannon, Daniel A. Sumano, Raushun A. Kirtikar, Alicia A. Erwin, Thomas J. Metzner, Ryan K. C. Yuen, Alice C. Fan, John T. Leppert, Michael A. Eberle, Mark Gerstein, Michael P. Snyder (2022). Recurrent repeat expansions in human cancer genomes. In Nature.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Eduardo Chielle, Charlotte Brannon, Michail Maniatakos, Mark Gerstein (2022). Privacy-preserving genotype imputation with fully homomorphic encryption. In Cell Systems.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Charlotte Brannon, Sarah Wagner, Mark Gerstein (2022). Storing and analyzing a genome on a blockchain. In Genome Biology.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Tianxiao Li, Susanna Liu, Eric Ni, Charlotte Brannon, Mark Gerstein (2021). Functional genomics data: privacy risk assessment and technological mitigation. In Nat Rev Genet.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Prashant Emani, Charlotte Brannon, Otto A. Jolanki, Arif Harmanci, J. Seth Strattan, J. Michael Cherry, Andrew D. Miranker, Mark Gerstein (2020). Data Sanitization to Reduce Private Information Leakage from Functional Genomics. In Cell.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Charlotte Brannon, Fabio C P Navarro, Mark Gerstein (2020). FANCY: fast estimation of privacy risk in functional genomics data. In Bioinformatics.

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Gamze Gürsoy, Charlotte Brannon, Mark Gerstein (2020). Using Ethereum blockchain to store and query pharmacogenomics data via smart contracts. In BMC Med Genomics.

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Alma Dal Co, Charlotte Brannon, Martin Ackermann (2018). Metabolism: Division of labor in bacteria. In eLife.

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