This message was sent to members of the Dept. of Molecular Genetics on behalf of Dr. Trevor Young, Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions.
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the that the Agenda Committee of the Academic Board has approved the appointment of Professor Tim Hughes as Chair and Graduate Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics, for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2022.
Professor Hughes holds appointments in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research and the Department of Molecular Genetics, where he has served as Interim Chair since March 2021 and holds the John W. Billes Chair of Medical Research. He previously served as Associate Graduate Coordinator and Graduate Chair, as well as Head of Graduate Admissions in Molecular Genetics. He obtained a B. Music and BSc. Engineering at the University of Iowa and a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. He was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Rosetta InPharmatics.
He currently holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Decoding Gene Regulation and is a past recipient of the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, the Terry Fox Young Investigator award, and an HHMI foreign scholarship, among other awards. He has authored or co-authored more than over 180 peer reviewed publications. His research focuses on deciphering how cells interpret DNA and RNA sequence in order to regulate genes. His lab employs diverse technologies to identify, study and map properties and relationships among individual functional units in the genome. Projects central to the lab are aimed to improve sequence-based models of gene regulation, comprehensive views of protein-DNA and protein-RNA recognition and dissecting the evolution of gene regulation mechanisms.
Please join me in thanking Professor Hughes for his leadership over the past year and congratulating him on this appointment.
