Congratulations to Dr. Daniel McKay, Assistant Professor of Biology and Genetics and Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Studies (iBGS), who was Awarded an Early Stage Investigator MIRA Award (R35). This 5-year Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA)from the NIH was given for his project titled “Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Developmental Gene Regulation”. McKay’s proposed studies will investigate how the transcriptional programs underlying tissue identity are deployed in the proper temporal sequence during development.