His research focuses on epigenetics. His team is currently engaged in integrating information from genetics, epigenetics and systems biology to decipher the biophysical basis of gene regulation.Dr. Timp earned bachelor degrees in biochemistry, chemistry, physics and electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He then earned his master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked at the Whitehead Institute in Paul Matsudaira’s lab, focusing his thesis work on the study of cellular communication in a 3D microenvironment. After receiving his doctorate, he trained as a postdoc at Johns Hopkins in the labs of Andrew Feinberg and Andre Levchenko, studying the epigenetics of cancer.