Faculty Expert Profile

Michael Beer, a professor in biomedical engineering, focuses on understanding how gene regulatory information is encoded in genomic DNA sequence and how regulatory variation contributes to diseases. His lab develops machine-learning techniques in which computer algorithms detect regulatory sequences in intergenic DNA.

Dr. Beer's lab is located in the McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, which has long been a leader in the development of rigorous quantitative modeling of biological systems, and is a natural home for graduate studies in bioinformatics and computational biology at Johns Hopkins, including research in genomics, systems biology, machine learning, and network modeling.