Prof. Stephen Smale University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Dr. Stephen Smale is a Distinguised Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and Vice Dean for Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has worked in the gene regulation field for 25 years. Stephen received his PhD with Robert Tjian at Berkeley and studied gene... read moreregulation in the developing immune system during his postdoctoral studies with David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute, MIT. Along with Dr. Michael Carey, Stephen co-founded the Eukaryotic Gene Regulation summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and co-wrote the gene regulation strategies book, ''Transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes: concepts, strategies and techniques''.