First person – Fatima Batool

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Fatima Batool is first author on ‘ The combinatorial binding syntax of transcription factors in forebrain-specific enhancers’, published in BiO. Fatima is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Dr Amir Ali Abbasi at the National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, decoding cis-regulatory grammar to establish a framework for discovering tissue-specific enhancers and advancing our understanding of enhancer function.