Angela Depace

Angela Depace is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, specializing in Gene Regulation, Cis-Regulatory Elements, and Quantitative Developmental Biology. Her research integrates experimental and computational approaches to study how transcription factors and enhancer sequences control gene expression in Drosophila embryos, with implications for evolutionary biology and synthetic biology.

• B.S., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
• Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco (advisor: Jonathan Weissman)
• Postdoctoral Research, University of California, Berkeley (advisor: Michael Eisen)

Her work focuses on unraveling the kinetic roles of transcriptional activators, the evolution of regulatory sequences, and the computational modeling of gene networks. Recent publications explore mechanistic principles of enhancer function, transcriptional synergy, and developmental precision.

Scientific contributions include the NSF CAREER Award and co-authoring Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers. Her lab emphasizes collaborative research, mentoring, and innovative teaching in systems biology graduate courses.