Hamish W King 43rd Lorne Genome Conference 2022

Hamish W King

Hamish King completed his undergraduate and Honours at Flinders University in Adelaide, before moving to the United Kingdom to undertake his PhD training in molecular epigenetics at the University of Oxford with Prof Rob Klose. While there he studied how gene expression is regulated by chromatin-modifying complexes, and how sequence-specific transcription factors cooperate with chromatin remodellers to access and bind the genome. During his postdoctoral training, Hamish was a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, where he studied the transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory networks that determine B cell identity and function in the human immune system using single-cell genomics. As part of his fellowship, Hamish worked closely with Dr Louisa James (QMUL), Dr Sarah Teichmann (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge) and Prof William Greenleaf (Stanford). Hamish will join the Walter and Eliza Hall Institure as a Group Leader in early 2022, where he plans to leverage his cross-disciplinary expertise in experimental and computational functional genomics to interrogate the underlying gene regulatory mechanisms that shape how human B cell fate decisions are made, with the long term goal of understanding how these processes go wrong in human disease.