Dr. Carl de Boer
Carl de Boer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He did his PhD in the lab of Tim Hughes at the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Aviv Regev’s lab at the Broad institute until the end of 2019, after which he moved to his current position at UBC. His research group aims to develop genomic and computational tools that will enable us to understand how the genome is regulated so that we can understand and treat disease.
Sessions in which Dr. Carl de Boer participates
Monday 12 June, 2023
Deciphering genome regulation or: How I learned to stop worrying and love random DNA. Gene expression is regulated by transcription factors that work together to read cis-regulatory DNA sequences. A primary aim of my group is to decipher the “cis-regulatory code” - the rules that cells use to determine when, where, and how much genes should be expressed. While cis-regulation has proven to be exceedingly complex, recent advances in our ability to query the activ...