William Greenleaf (American scientist)

William J. Greenleaf
William J. Greenleaf
Born	William James Greenleaf; December 24, 1979; Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (A.B.); Trinity College, University of Cambridge (Dip. Comp. Sci.); Stanford University (Ph.D.);
Known for	ATAC-seq
Awards	NIH Director's Pioneer Award, Damon Runyon Fellowship
	Scientific career
Fields	Genomics, Epigenomics, Biophysics
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	High-resolution, single-molecule measurements of transcription and RNA folding (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Steven Block
Other academic advisors	X. Sunney Xie
Website	Greenleaf Lab

William J. Greenleaf (born December 24, 1979) is an American molecular biologist, biophysicist, and inventor who is a professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research focuses on high-throughput sequencing and optical microscopy methods for studying gene regulation and chromatin structure. Greenleaf is a co-inventor of ATAC-seq, a widely-used epigenomic method developed in his lab.