Dr. Michael Beer is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding how gene regulatory information is encoded in genomic DNA sequence. His research lab recently developed “machine-learning” techniques where computers were taught to identify regulating gene sequences in DNA.
Dr. Beer received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He earned his masters degree and Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. Dr. Beer joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2005.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Beer was the Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.
Dr. Beer was recognized with the Simon Ramo Award for his theses in plasma physics. He also was awarded the DOE Fusion Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Computational Physics, Experimental Physics, Nuclear Physics, Computational Biology
