Northwestern University
Skokie, Illinois, United States
Debbie Winter graduated from University of Toronto with a B.Sc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. She then completed her Ph.D at Duke University studying the role of chromatin dynamics in gene regulation. As part of her thesis, she worked with the ENCODE consortium and helped to set the standards for analysis of genome-wide sequencing data. For her postdoc, she joined the Immuno-genomics labs of Ido Amit at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Here, she set the foundation of her future research on the gene regulatory networks of macrophages, publishing in high-impact journals such as Cell, Science, and Nature Biotech. She is particularly well-known for her work demonstrating that the enhancer landscape of tissue-resident macrophages is specified by the local cell environment. In 2016, she joined the faculty of the Division of Rheumatology at Northwestern University. There, she established the Winter Lab of Functional Genomics with the goal of using genomic approaches to understand the role of macrophages in health and disease. In addition to using mouse models to study specific disease processes, a main focus of the Winter Lab is to take advantage of functional genomic approaches on patient samples to advance precision medicine.
Monday, October 27, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Central Time
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
