Scott Findlay

Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, 2016, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Scott received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario in Canada for the discovery of genetically-regulated alternative splicing of NODAL, and for generating new tools for precision genome editing workflows. Scott’s PhD thesis can be found here.

Scott is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Burge Lab at MIT working at the intersection of RNA biology, genomics, and population genetics. His main projects have developed computational approaches to quantify levels of negative selection experienced by different classes of non-coding regulatory variation in humans, and a massively parallel reporter assay to screen natural and random untranslated sequences (and genetic variants) for regulatory activity in cells.

To learn more about Scott’s recent work, check out his latest preprint, and the associated Twitter thread!

Scott’s full list of publications on Google Scholar

contact: sfindlay#mit.edu