Northern lights and plough/big dipper over Hawick, Scotland tonight

From Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to California 🇺🇸 and Stanford University working on rare variants underlying extreme molecular and disease phenotypes in differentiated tissues (GTEx), development (i2QTL) & in rare diseases (UDN, Stanford Center for Undiagnosed Diseases). Also happy memories hiking the Sierra Nevada.

The journey begins in the Scottish Borders, a rural area of rolling fields and rugged peaks which is often windy and rainy but always beautiful.

Then north to Edinburgh University working on bioinformatics pipelines and statistical methods for large-scale biological data.