MJB is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, a director of the WNYSTEM Stem Cell Sequencing/Epigenomics Facility, a co-director of the UB Genomics and Bioinformatics Core, and an adjunct faculty for the Cancer Genetics Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He has extensive experience with chromatin accessibility assays and bioinformatics analysis of related data. He is currently the head of an active laboratory focused on epigenomic profiling and the detection of key determinants for gene regulation, disease development and progression. MT is a senior research scientist/project leader in MJB’s laboratory involved in a number of studies on epigenetic regulation.