Dr Jake Harris
- • Head of Chromatin & Memory
- • Associate Professor
- • Royal Society University Research Fellow
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Jake Harris is Head of Chromatin & Memory at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Previous Positions
2024 to present - Associate Professor - University of Cambridge, England
2021 to present - University Research Fellow - Royal Society, England
2014 to 2021 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2014 to 2021 - EMBO Fellow Postdoctoral Researcher, Jacobsen Lab - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Qualifications
2014 - PhD in Plant Sciences - University of Cambridge, England
2009 - BSc in Biology - University of Oxford, England
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I’m interested in how chromatin impacts gene expression. I employ the standard molecular biology toolkit, as well as CRISPR based precision (epi)genomics and cutting-edge genomic and bioinformatic approaches to assess chromatin dynamics, including ChIP-seq, RNA-seq and ATAC-seq. With these tools, I can survey the chromatin landscape and deposit particular chromatin marks at precise genomic locations, and begin to ask fundamental questions concerning their effect on transcription. An ultimate goal of my research to use this knowledge to impart stress ‘memories’ into naive plants, so that they are primed and ready for challenges such as pathogen attack.