Prof. Dr. Duncan Odom

Duncan Odom was an undergraduate student at New College of Florida, and obtained his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute / MIT between 2001 and 2006, developing novel genomics tools to explore transcription factor binding in eukaryotes. He established his independent laboratory at the University of Cambridge's Cancer Research UK-Cambridge Institute in 2006. In 2019, his laboratory moved to the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany. His current research interests range from evolutionary genomics to mechanisms underlying cancer genome formation. He dislikes onions and enjoys fire hula-hooping and acroyoga.