Stephen Watt

Senior Staff Scientist

My main research interests lie in how genetic variation influences transcriptional regulation and gene expression programs.

To fulfil this goal I am currently in the group of Professor Nicole Soranzo. Here we study the effects and consequences of genetic variation on epigenetic and transcriptional regulation at a population level. Using immune cells as our model, I am primarily involved in large scale data acquisition and analysis of ChIP-seq experiments for transcription factors essential to myeloid cell function.

My timeline

• Staff Scientist, Human Complex Traits laboratory, WTSI

• Senior Scientific Officer, Regulatory systems biology laboratory, CRUK

• Senior Research Assistant, Fission Yeast Functional Genomics Group, WTSI

• Research Assistant, Cancer Genome Project, WTSI

• Human Genome Project Sequencing team, WTSI

• Bsc Biology, University of Paisley