Dr. Jim Davie received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia. His post-doctoral training was with Dr. Ken van Holde at Oregon State University. Dr. Davie is presently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. He serves on several Editorial Boards of journals publishing in Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology and is Editor of the journal Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He has served as Chair and panel member on Peer Review Committees. He directs the Manitoba Next Generation DNA Sequencing platform, which provides state-of-the-art genomic DNA sequencing to Manitoba researchers. His research interests include epigenetic regulation of gene expression in normal and diseased cells, signal transduction pathways, and biomarkers in the detection of disease. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Chromatin Dynamics. Dr. Davie is a Councillor of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences. In 2015, he was inducted as a Fellow into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.