Dr. Julia Zeitlinger’s long-term research goal is to understand and predict gene regulation based on DNA sequence information and genome-wide experimental data. She discovered that paused RNA polymerase II is frequently found at developmental control genes, developed ChIP-nexus to map transcription factor binding at high-resolution, and identified modes of cooperative binding between transcription factors with the help of deep learning. Julia obtained her Ph.D. at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany, trained with Rick Young at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.