Frank Alber

Frank Alber is a Professor in the School of Medicine at UCLA. His research focuses on spatial genome organization, chromosome folding, and proteome mapping within cellular compartments. He holds a PhD from ETH Zürich and completed postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University and UCSF. His work integrates genomics and microscopy to understand nuclear architecture and subcellular dynamics.

• Education: PhD, ETH Zürich; Postdoc, Rockefeller University and UCSF
• Awards: PEW Biomedical Research Scholar, Sloan Research Fellowship, Beckman Young Investigator Award

Research emphasizes dynamic changes in genomic regions relative to nuclear bodies and cytoplasmic proteome spatial distributions. Collaborations include co-authors like Zhou, Xianghong (UCLA) and Sali, Andrej (UCSF).