Team • Harsha MAHABALESHWAR, Postdoctoral Fellow • MA Jiajia, Research Assistant Assistant Professor Tom Carney is an Assistant Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, and Co-Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB, A*STAR). Previously, he held the position of Assistant Principal Investigator (PI) at IMCB from 2008, and was promoted to Co-PI in 2013. Before moving to Singapore, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Matthias Hammerschmidt at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany, from 2004-2008 through a Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1999, he was awarded a British Council ORS Award to pursue a PhD degree under the supervision of Robert Kelsh from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK. Asst Prof Carney’s research career is focused on the developmental program of derivatives of the non-neural ectoderm, namely the neural crest and the epidermis. This work has exploited the advantages of the zebrafish system for in vivo genetic and cellular analyses, and has led to publications in numerous international journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, Current Biology, EMBO Reports, eLife, American Journal of Human Genetics, PLoS Genetics, Development, and Nature Neuroscience.