Aled completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Bath before undertaking a PhD at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, where he studied the epigenetic alterations that characterise cellular senescence and cancer.

He joined the Reik group in 2018 where he aims to understand how the epigenetic landscape is established in the early mammalian embryo, with a particular focus on lineage-specific gene regulation and distal regulatory elements.

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