Michael A. Beer BSE, MA, PhD

Dr. Michael Beer is an associate 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 and how regulatory variation contributes to diseases. His lab recently develops machine-learning techniques where computers algorithms detect regulatory sequences in intergenic DNA.

Dr. Beer received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He earned his 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.