"My name is Guy Nir.
We are right now in the Ting Wu lab at Harvard Medical School in the Genetics Department.
I'm a new post doc here.
Just got here like a month ago.
Doing research that involves the durations in the chromatin states through development.
So my background is biophysics.
I guess when I grew up I was interested both in physics and biology.
I come from Israel so fortunately one of the universities had a special degree, bachelor
degree in biophysics.
I became very interested with some basic phenomena like basic physical forces that govern our
every day gravity, electricity and other forces and at the same time I was very interested
in our bodies, in our surroundings.
And also I felt if I'm going to go into science then yeah, I'm probably, hopefully I can do
something, give back something to a community.
After you've reached 18 and you feel like you got so much from the environment, all
the technology and the like, know their medical equipment that we have.
And you want to give something back.
So I think that science hopefully allows you to do so.
Because I just started here so it's kind of tough for me to know exactly what I'm going
to do.
But definitely I'm going to, I know that I'm going to use microscopy tools, try to use
how structure for genome affects genomic outputs.
For example how does the durations and the confirmations of our genome affects transcription,
gene regulation.
And genomes go through lots of regulation in order that it wouldn't develop into some
disease then the regulation has to be precise and it had to be very robust and the, of course
the confirmation of our DNA is of course highly important for many basic procedures inside
a cell.
So I feel that studying those alterations and understanding how they actually interfere
with every basic biological phenomenon is highly important if we want to know how to
avoid some decision, how we can correct the decisions.
The way I see it is the only place that you can actually be yourself and it's the only
place that you can do whatever you want to do.
And there's so much to study.
So I guess that my advice just, start slowly, start with your bachelor degree and then see
how it goes from there, right?"