Eric Chow, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics

Eric Chow, PhD is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of the Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) at UCSF. The CAT evaluates and brings new technologies to campus that are available to all UCSF labs and provides guidance for projects. Over the past decade, the CAT has been a hub for new NGS methods, with a focus on single cell sequencing, spatial genomics, and infectious disease detection and diagnostics. He received his BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in Biochemistry studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis with genomic and lipidomic tools at UCSF.

Publications: 

D-SPIN constructs gene regulatory network models from multiplexed scRNA-seq data revealing organizing principles of cellular perturbation response.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Jiang J, Chen S, Tsou T, McGinnis CS, Khazaei T, Zhu Q, Park JH, Strazhnik IM, Hanna J, Chow ED, Sivak DA, Gartner ZJ, Thomson M

Immune modulation with RANKL blockade through denosumab treatment in patients with cancer.

Cancer immunology research

Chang H, Marquez Garcia J, Chen BK, Kim DM, Cheng ML, Liu EV, Yang H, Zhang L, Sinha M, Cheung A, Kwek SS, Chow ED, Bridge M, Aggarwal RR, Friedlander TW, Small EJ, Anderson M, Fong L

Compact CRISPR genetic screens enabled by improved guide RNA library cloning.

Genome biology

Heo SJ, Enriquez LD, Federman S, Chang AY, Mace R, Shevade K, Nguyen P, Litterman AJ, Shafer S, Przybyla L, Chow ED

Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution.

Cell

Yang D, Jones MG, Naranjo S, Rideout WM, Min KHJ, Ho R, Wu W, Replogle JM, Page JL, Quinn JJ, Horns F, Qiu X, Chen MZ, Freed-Pastor WA, McGinnis CS, Patterson DM, Gartner ZJ, Chow ED, Bivona TG, Chan MM, Yosef N, Jacks T, Weissman JS

Estimation of Secondary Household Attack Rates for Emergent Spike L452R Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Variants Detected by Genomic Surveillance at a Community-Based Testing Site in San Francisco.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Peng J, Liu J, Mann SA, Mitchell AM, Laurie MT, Sunshine S, Pilarowski G, Ayscue P, Kistler A, Vanaerschot M, Li LM, McGeever A, Chow ED, Marquez C, Nakamura R, Rubio L, Chamie G, Jones D, Jacobo J, Rojas S, Rojas S, Tulier-Laiwa V, Black D, Martinez J, Naso J, Schwab J, Petersen M, Havlir D, DeRisi J, IDseq Team

SCITO-seq: single-cell combinatorial indexed cytometry sequencing.

Nature methods

Hwang B, Lee DS, Tamaki W, Sun Y, Ogorodnikov A, Hartoularos GC, Winters A, Yeung BZ, Nazor KL, Song YS, Chow ED, Spitzer MH, Ye CJ

XYZeq: Spatially resolved single-cell RNA sequencing reveals expression heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment.

Science advances

Lee Y, Bogdanoff D, Wang Y, Hartoularos GC, Woo JM, Mowery CT, Nisonoff HM, Lee DS, Sun Y, Lee J, Mehdizadeh S, Cantlon J, Shifrut E, Ngyuen DN, Roth TL, Song YS, Marson A, Chow ED, Ye CJ

Estimation of secondary household attack rates for emergent SARS-CoV-2 variants detected by genomic surveillance at a community-based testing site in San Francisco.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Peng J, Mann SA, Mitchell AM, Liu J, Laurie MT, Sunshine S, Pilarowski G, Ayscue P, Kistler A, Vanaerschot M, Li LM, McGeever A, Chow ED, Team I, Marquez C, Nakamura R, Rubio L, Chamie G, Jones D, Jacobo J, Rojas S, Rojas S, Tulier-Laiwa V, Black D, Martinez J, Naso J, Schwab J, Petersen M, Havlir D, DeRisi J

Macrolide and Nonmacrolide Resistance with Mass Azithromycin Distribution.

The New England journal of medicine

Doan T, Worden L, Hinterwirth A, Arzika AM, Maliki R, Abdou A, Zhong L, Chen C, Cook C, Lebas E, O'Brien KS, Oldenburg CE, Chow ED, Porco TC, Lipsitch M, Keenan JD, Lietman TM

Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids.

Nature medicine

Gu W, Deng X, Lee M, Sucu YD, Arevalo S, Stryke D, Federman S, Gopez A, Reyes K, Zorn K, Sample H, Yu G, Ishpuniani G, Briggs B, Chow ED, Berger A, Wilson MR, Wang C, Hsu E, Miller S, DeRisi JL, Chiu CY

Rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing: The CLIAHUB.

PLoS pathogens

Crawford ED, Acosta I, Ahyong V, Anderson EC, Arevalo S, Asarnow D, Axelrod S, Ayscue P, Azimi CS, Azumaya CM, Bachl S, Bachmutsky I, Bhaduri A, Brown JB, Batson J, Behnert A, Boileau RM, Bollam SR, Bonny AR, Booth D, Borja MJB, Brown D, Buie B, Burnett CE, Byrnes LE, Cabral KA, Cabrera JP, Caldera S, Canales G, Castañeda GR, Chan AP, Chang CR, Charles-Orszag A, Cheung C, Chio U, Chow ED, Citron YR, Cohen A, Cohn LB, Chiu C, Cole MA, Conrad DN, Constantino A, Cote A, Crayton-Hall T, Darmanis S, Detweiler AM, Dial RL, Dong S, Duarte EM, Dynerman D, Egger R, Fanton A, Frumm SM, Fu BXH, Garcia VE, Garcia J, Gladkova C, Goldman M, Gomez-Sjoberg R, Gordon MG, Grove JCR, Gupta S, Haddjeri-Hopkins A, Hadley P, Haliburton J, Hao SL, Hartoularos G, Herrera N, Hilberg M, Ho KYE, Hoppe N, Hosseinzadeh S, Howard CJ, Hussmann JA, Hwang E, Ingebrigtsen D, Jackson JR, Jowhar ZM, Kain D, Kim JYS, Kistler A, Kreutzfeld O, Kulsuptrakul J, Kung AF, Langelier C, Laurie MT, Lee L, Leng K, Leon KE, Leonetti MD, Levan SR, Li S, Li AW, Liu J, Lubin HS, Lyden A, Mann J, Mann S, Margulis G, Marquez DM, Marsh BP, Martyn C, McCarthy EE, McGeever A, Merriman AF, Meyer LK, Miller S, Moore MK, Mowery CT, Mukhtar T, Mwakibete LL, Narez N, Neff NF, Osso LA, Oviedo D, Peng S, Phelps M, Phong K, Picard P, Pieper LM, Pincha N, Pisco AO, Pogson A, Pourmal S, Puccinelli RR, Puschnik AS, Rackaityte E, Raghavan P, Raghavan M, Reese J, Replogle JM, Retallack H, Reyes H, Rose D, Rosenberg MF, Sanchez-Guerrero E, Sattler SM, Savy L, See SK, Sellers KK, Serpa PH, Sheehy M, Sheu J, Silas S, Streithorst JA, Strickland J, Stryke D, Sunshine S, Suslow P, Sutanto R, Tamura S, Tan M, Tan J, Tang A, Tato CM, Taylor JC, Tenvooren I, Thompson EM, Thornborrow EC, Tse E, Tung T, Turner ML, Turner VS, Turnham RE, Turocy MJ, Vaidyanathan TV, Vainchtein ID, Vanaerschot M, Vazquez SE, Wandler AM, Wapniarski A, Webber JT, Weinberg ZY, Westbrook A, Wong AW, Wong E, Worthington G, Xie F, Xu A, Yamamoto T, Yang Y, Yarza F, Zaltsman Y, Zheng T, DeRisi JL

Robust Sequence Determinants of α-Synuclein Toxicity in Yeast Implicate Membrane Binding.

ACS chemical biology

Newberry RW, Arhar T, Costello J, Hartoularos GC, Maxwell AM, Naing ZZC, Pittman M, Reddy NR, Schwarz DMC, Wassarman DR, Wu TS, Barrero D, Caggiano C, Catching A, Cavazos TB, Estes LS, Faust B, Fink EA, Goldman MA, Gomez YK, Gordon MG, Gunsalus LM, Hoppe N, Jaime-Garza M, Johnson MC, Jones MG, Kung AF, Lopez KE, Lumpe J, Martyn C, McCarthy EE, Miller-Vedam LE, Navarro EJ, Palar A, Pellegrino J, Saylor W, Stephens CA, Strickland J, Torosyan H, Wankowicz SA, Wong DR, Wong G, Redding S, Chow ED, DeGrado WF, Kampmann M

High-resolution epitope mapping of anti-Hu and anti-Yo autoimmunity by programmable phage display.

Brain communications

O'Donovan B, Mandel-Brehm C, Vazquez SE, Liu J, Parent AV, Anderson MS, Kassimatis T, Zekeridou A, Hauser SL, Pittock SJ, Chow E, Wilson MR, DeRisi JL

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer.

Nature genetics

Zhao SG, Chen WS, Li H, Foye A, Zhang M, Sjöström M, Aggarwal R, Playdle D, Liao A, Alumkal JJ, Das R, Chou J, Hua JT, Barnard TJ, Bailey AM, Chow ED, Perry MD, Dang HX, Yang R, Moussavi-Baygi R, Zhang L, Alshalalfa M, Laura Chang S, Houlahan KE, Shiah YJ, Beer TM, Thomas G, Chi KN, Gleave M, Zoubeidi A, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte O, Yvonne Kim M, Fong L, Spratt DE, Morgan TM, Bose R, Huang FW, Li H, Chesner L, Shenoy T, Goodarzi H, Asangani IA, Sandhu S, Lang JM, Mahajan NP, Lara PN, Evans CP, Febbo P, Batzoglou S, Knudsen KE, He HH, Huang J, Zwart W, Costello JF, Luo J, Tomlins SA, Wyatt AW, Dehm SM, Ashworth A, Gilbert LA, Boutros PC, Farh K, Chinnaiyan AM, Maher CA, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Feng FY

ZipSeq: barcoding for real-time mapping of single cell transcriptomes.

Nature methods

Hu KH, Eichorst JP, McGinnis CS, Patterson DM, Chow ED, Kersten K, Jameson SC, Gartner ZJ, Rao AA, Krummel MF

Intratumoral CD4+ T Cells Mediate Anti-tumor Cytotoxicity in Human Bladder Cancer.

Cell

Oh DY, Kwek SS, Raju SS, Li T, McCarthy E, Chow E, Aran D, Ilano A, Pai CS, Rancan C, Allaire K, Burra A, Sun Y, Spitzer MH, Mangul S, Porten S, Meng MV, Friedlander TW, Ye CJ, Fong L

Deep mutational scanning reveals the structural basis for α-synuclein activity.

Nature chemical biology

Newberry RW, Leong JT, Chow ED, Kampmann M, DeGrado WF

FLASH: a next-generation CRISPR diagnostic for multiplexed detection of antimicrobial resistance sequences.

Nucleic acids research

Quan J, Langelier C, Kuchta A, Batson J, Teyssier N, Lyden A, Caldera S, McGeever A, Dimitrov B, King R, Wilheim J, Murphy M, Ares LP, Travisano KA, Sit R, Amato R, Mumbengegwi DR, Smith JL, Bennett A, Gosling R, Mourani PM, Calfee CS, Neff NF, Chow ED, Kim PS, Greenhouse B, DeRisi JL, Crawford ED

Gut microbiome alteration in MORDOR I: a community-randomized trial of mass azithromycin distribution.

Nature medicine

Doan T, Hinterwirth A, Worden L, Arzika AM, Maliki R, Abdou A, Kane S, Zhong L, Cummings ME, Sakar S, Chen C, Cook C, Lebas E, Chow ED, Nachamkin I, Porco TC, Keenan JD, Lietman TM

MULTI-seq: sample multiplexing for single-cell RNA sequencing using lipid-tagged indices.

Nature methods

McGinnis CS, Patterson DM, Winkler J, Conrad DN, Hein MY, Srivastava V, Hu JL, Murrow LM, Weissman JS, Werb Z, Chow ED, Gartner ZJ

Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Iwanaga K, Ly NP, McGarry ME, Church GD, Faricy LE, Rowan CM, Hume JR, Steiner ME, Crawford ED, Langelier C, Kalantar K, Chow ED, Miller S, Shimano K, Melton A, Yanik GA, Sapru A, DeRisi JL

Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning.

Cell

Jaganathan K, Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou S, McRae JF, Darbandi SF, Knowles D, Li YI, Kosmicki JA, Arbelaez J, Cui W, Schwartz GB, Chow ED, Kanterakis E, Gao H, Kia A, Batzoglou S, Sanders SJ, Farh KK

Integrating host response and unbiased microbe detection for lower respiratory tract infection diagnosis in critically ill adults.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Langelier C, Kalantar KL, Moazed F, Wilson MR, Crawford ED, Deiss T, Belzer A, Bolourchi S, Caldera S, Fung M, Jauregui A, Malcolm K, Lyden A, Khan L, Vessel K, Quan J, Zinter M, Chiu CY, Chow ED, Wilson J, Miller S, Matthay MA, Pollard KS, Christenson S, Calfee CS, DeRisi JL

Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.

JAMA neurology

Wilson MR, O'Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, Langelier C, Bryson-Cahn C, Harrington W, Lingappa JR, Shanbhag NM, Green AJ, Brew BJ, Soldatos A, Strnad L, Doernberg SB, Jay CA, Douglas V, Josephson SA, DeRisi JL

Mass Azithromycin Distribution and Community Microbiome: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.

Open forum infectious diseases

Doan T, Hinterwirth A, Arzika AM, Cotter SY, Ray KJ, O'Brien KS, Zhong L, Chow ED, Zhou Z, Cummings SL, Fry D, Oldenburg CE, Worden L, Porco TC, Keenan JD, Lietman TM

Extending chemical perturbations of the ubiquitin fitness landscape in a classroom setting reveals new constraints on sequence tolerance.

Biology open

Mavor D, Barlow KA, Asarnow D, Birman Y, Britain D, Chen W, Green EM, Kenner LR, Mensa B, Morinishi LS, Nelson CA, Poss EM, Suresh P, Tian R, Arhar T, Ary BE, Bauer DP, Bergman ID, Brunetti RM, Chio CM, Dai SA, Dickinson MS, Elledge SK, Helsell CVM, Hendel NL, Kang E, Kern N, Khoroshkin MS, Kirkemo LL, Lewis GR, Lou K, Marin WM, Maxwell AM, McTigue PF, Myers-Turnbull D, Nagy TL, Natale AM, Oltion K, Pourmal S, Reder GK, Rettko NJ, Rohweder PJ, Schwarz DMC, Tan SK, Thomas PV, Tibble RW, Town JP, Tsai MK, Ugur FS, Wassarman DR, Wolff AM, Wu TS, Bogdanoff D, Li J, Thorn KS, O'Conchúir S, Swaney DL, Chow ED, Madhani HD, Redding S, Bolon DN, Kortemme T, DeRisi JL, Kampmann M, Fraser JS

Mapping the Genetic Landscape of Human Cells.

Cell

Horlbeck MA, Xu A, Wang M, Bennett NK, Park CY, Bogdanoff D, Adamson B, Chow ED, Kampmann M, Peterson TR, Nakamura K, Fischbach MA, Weissman JS, Gilbert LA

Metagenomic DNA Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Intraocular Infections.

Ophthalmology

Doan T, Acharya NR, Pinsky BA, Sahoo MK, Chow ED, Banaei N, Budvytiene I, Cevallos V, Zhong L, Zhou Z, Lietman TM, DeRisi JL

UDP-galactose and acetyl-CoA transporters as Plasmodium multidrug resistance genes.

Nature microbiology

Lim MY, LaMonte G, Lee MCS, Reimer C, Tan BH, Corey V, Tjahjadi BF, Chua A, Nachon M, Wintjens R, Gedeck P, Malleret B, Renia L, Bonamy GMC, Ho PC, Yeung BKS, Chow ED, Lim L, Fidock DA, Diagana TT, Winzeler EA, Bifani P

Illuminating uveitis: metagenomic deep sequencing identifies common and rare pathogens.

Genome medicine

Doan T, Wilson MR, Crawford ED, Chow ED, Khan LM, Knopp KA, O'Donovan BD, Xia D, Hacker JK, Stewart JM, Gonzales JA, Acharya NR, DeRisi JL

Determination of ubiquitin fitness landscapes under different chemical stresses in a classroom setting.

eLife

Mavor D, Barlow K, Thompson S, Barad BA, Bonny AR, Cario CL, Gaskins G, Liu Z, Deming L, Axen SD, Caceres E, Chen W, Cuesta A, Gate RE, Green EM, Hulce KR, Ji W, Kenner LR, Mensa B, Morinishi LS, Moss SM, Mravic M, Muir RK, Niekamp S, Nnadi CI, Palovcak E, Poss EM, Ross TD, Salcedo EC, See SK, Subramaniam M, Wong AW, Li J, Thorn KS, Conchúir SÓ, Roscoe BP, Chow ED, DeRisi JL, Kortemme T, Bolon DN, Fraser JS

Subclonal mutations in SETBP1 confer a poor prognosis in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.

Blood

Stieglitz E, Troup CB, Gelston LC, Haliburton J, Chow ED, Yu KB, Akutagawa J, Taylor-Weiner AN, Liu YL, Wang YD, Beckman K, Emanuel PD, Braun BS, Abate A, Gerbing RB, Alonzo TA, Loh ML

A cysteine protease inhibitor rescues mice from a lethal Cryptosporidium parvum infection.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Ndao M, Nath-Chowdhury M, Sajid M, Marcus V, Mashiyama ST, Sakanari J, Chow E, Mackey Z, Land KM, Jacobson MP, Kalyanaraman C, McKerrow JH, Arrowood MJ, Caffrey CR

Genetic and mass spectrometric tools for elucidating the physiological function(s) of cytochrome P450 enzymes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Ouellet H, Chow ED, Guan S, Cox JS, Burlingame AL, de Montellano PR

TB lipidomics--the final frontier.

Chemistry & biology

Chow ED, Cox JS

Mycobacterium tuberculosis CYP125A1, a steroid C27 monooxygenase that detoxifies intracellularly generated cholest-4-en-3-one.

Molecular microbiology

Ouellet H, Guan S, Johnston JB, Chow ED, Kells PM, Burlingame AL, Cox JS, Podust LM, de Montellano PR

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