Please join us at 11 a.m. ET in ESB 121 on October 21st, 2024 for a seminar titled “Evolution of transcriptional regulation” with Paul Flicek, DSc.

Paul graduated from Drake University with a BS in Physics and from Washington University in St Louis with a Doctor of Science in Biomedical Engineering focused on computational biology. He moved to Cambridge, England, in 2005 to do a postdoc with Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). He became a member of the EMBL-EBI faculty in 2007, EMBL senior scientist in 2011 and EMBL-EBI Associate Director for Services in 2019. He became the inaugural Chief Data Science Officer at The Jackson Laboratory in 2023. Paul has held leadership positions in multiple large-scale genomics projects including Ensembl, the 1000 Genomes Project, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and the Earth BioGenome Project.

Paul has co-authored over 280 scientific publications. He is also currently Honorary Professor of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge.