MICHAEL WERNER

Dr. Werner received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Chicago, where he studied the role of non-coding RNA and chromatin on gene regulation in human cell lines. He continued this line of inquiry but on a larger and more complex scale during his postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. There, he adapted his expertise in chromatin biochemistry to an organismal system that has historically been investigated in an ecological and evolutionary context. Dr. Werner has continued this integrative research program as an assistant professor at the University of Utah starting in September, 2020, where he aims to elucidate the mechanisms of environmental influence on phenotypes. Dr. Werner has also initiated research programs investigating extremophile nematodes in Great Salt Lake, UT, and the evolution or gene-regulation.