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.