Faculty & Scientific Staff
Background Information
John Ray received his BS in Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology at the University of Washington in 2007 and his PhD in Immunobiology at Yale University in 2014, working in the laboratory of Joe Craft, MD. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the lab of Nir Hacohen, PhD, studying autoimmune disease genetic risk in non-coding regions and epigenetic regulation of immune cell subsets.
Dr. Ray joined the faculty of the Benaroya Research Institute in 2020 and is currently an Assistant Member. Dr. Ray has affiliate appointments at the University of Washington’s Departments of Immunology and Genome Sciences.
Featured Publications
Jun 2022
Systematic identification of genomic elements that regulate FCGR2A expression and harbor variants linked with autoimmune disease.
Hum Mol Genet
Dahlqvist J, Fulco CP, Ray JP, Liechti T, de Boer CG, Lieb DJ, Eisenhaure TM, Engreitz JM, Roederer M, Hacohen N
May 2022
Prioritization of autoimmune disease-associated genetic variants that perturb regulatory element activity in T cells.
Nat Genet
Mouri K, Guo MH, de Boer CG, Lissner MM, Harten IA, Newby GA, DeBerg HA, Platt WF, Gentili M, Liu DR, Campbell DJ, Hacohen N, Tewhey R, Ray JP
May 2021
Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes.
Nature
Nasser J, Bergman DT, Fulco CP, Guckelberger P, Doughty BR, Patwardhan TA, Jones TR, Nguyen TH, Ulirsch JC, Lekschas F, Mualim K, Natri HM, Weeks EM, Munson G, Kane M, Kang HY, Cui A, Ray JP, Eisenhaure TM, Collins RL, Dey K, Pfister H, Price AL, Epstein CB, Kundaje A, Xavier RJ, Daly MJ, Huang H, Finucane HK, Hacohen N, Lander ES, Engreitz JM
Mar 2021
Global discovery of lupus genetic risk variant allelic enhancer activity.
Nat Commun
Lu X, Chen X, Forney C, Donmez O, Miller D, Parameswaran S, Hong T, Huang Y, Pujato M, Cazares T, Miraldi ER, Ray JP, de Boer CG, Harley JB, Weirauch MT, Kottyan LC
