Future leader to watch – Nathan Harmston

First Person is a series of interviews with the authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Nathan Harmston is last author on ‘ The importance of considering regulatory domains in genome-wide analyses ­– the nearest gene is often wrong!’, published in BiO. Nathan is Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at Yale NUS College, Singapore, investigating the rules and features of how gene expression is regulated in both development and disease.