Research focus

The overall goal of the Haller laboratory is to identify and characterize genetic variation that leads to various neurosurgical and/or neurological disorders in humans.  By collecting and sequencing large cohorts of patients with the same disorder (CM1, SM, SAH, Hydrocephalus), we identify genes and genetic variants that contribute to the risk of developing these disorders. We then characterize the genes and genetic variants we find associated with these disorders using cell-culture models and by disrupting disease-associated genes in zebrafish.

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Honors & leadership roles

• Children’s Discovery Institute Faculty Scholar Award, 2019
• Director, Random Saturation Mutagenesis Core (RSMC) at The McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University