Maria Suciu, a final year DPhil student in the Higgs/Hughes labs, was awarded the Outstanding Presentation Prize at the 5th Wellcome Trust Conference - Epigenomics of Common Diseases. Maria presented the findings from part of her thesis project on comparing open-chromatin assays DNase-Seq and ATAC-Seq.
The Epigenomics of Common Diseases 2015 Conference brought together leading scientists from the fields of epigenomics, genetics and bioinformatics to discuss the latest developments in this fast-moving area.