Rate My Professor Alistair Forrest

In 2007, he relocated to RIKEN in Yokohama, Japan, on a CJ Martin Fellowship, rising to senior positions and coordinating the FANTOM5 project, an international consortium of over 250 scientists from 20 countries that produced comprehensive maps of mammalian promoters and enhancers using single-molecule sequencing. This effort yielded landmark publications, including 'A promoter level expression atlas' (Nature, 2014), 'An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues' (Nature, 2014), and 'An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends' (Nature, 2017). Returning to Perth in 2015 with support from the Cancer Research Trust Senior Cancer Research Fellowship, Forrest now applies next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and systems biology to investigate transcriptional regulatory networks, non-coding RNA biology, pan-cancer biomarkers, mesothelioma, and tissue-specific drug targets. His contributions have earned him Fellowship in the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2020), the Eureka Prize for Excellence in International Scientific Collaboration (2016), the Lorne Genome Millennium Science Award (2016), and a Letter of Appreciation from the RIKEN President (2017).