Guoping Fan is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2001. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Institute/MIT, where he studied the role of DNA methylation and neurotrophins in neural development. Dr. Fan earned his B.S. in Biochemistry at Nanjing University, China and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University. He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers to date in international scientific journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Cell Stem Cell, and Genome Biology. His current research focuses on the actions of DNA methylation and chromatin-remodeling in regulating neural gene expression, neuronal function, and stem cell differentiation and reprogramming.