Dr. John Morris is a human geneticist and genome engineer. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biology at the University of Western Ontario, then went on to complete a Ph.D. in Human Genetics at McGill University, in the lab of Brent Richards. His PhD focused on identifying the genetic determinants of osteoporosis through genome-wide association studies of bone traits in large-scale biobanks. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New York Genome Center and New York University, in the labs of Neville Sanjana and Tuuli Lappalainen, where has developed single-cell pooled CRISPR screens to study noncoding GWAS loci. John's postdoctoral work linking GWAS variants to genes and functions, STING-seq, expands our ability to understand mechanisms underlying GWAS loci. John's achievements have been recognized by multiple agencies, as he was awarded both a CIHR Banting Fellowship and NHGRI K99 Fellowship, and was a 2021 winner of the ASHG Charles J. Epstein Excellence Award.