Christopher Faulk PhD

Faulk work as an Assistant Professor of Functional Genomics at the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences in the Department of Animal Science School of Public Health. He have expertise in evolutionary genomics, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics with a specialization in environmental epigenetics in mice and mobile elements in primates.

He was currently supported by a competitive K99 Grant through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH). My work focuses on three areas: 1) Developmental lead (Pb) exposure effects on the mouse epigenome over the lifespan, 2) Transposon epigenetics and the evolution of DNA methylation instability in mobile DNA, and 3) Discovery of human epialleles by novel application of next-generation massively parallel sequencing. Through these projects he was integrating the fields of epigenetics, evolution, transposon genetics, and environmental toxicology.