Coordinator: Juan Valcárcel

The interests of the program span from mechanisms of gene expression and epigenetic regulation to the molecular basis of cellular decisions involved in tissue homeostasis and cancer.

Mechanistic studies of gene regulation include the organization and evolution of the regulatory genome (Dr. Guillaume Filion), chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation mediated by steroid hormones (Dr. Miguel Beato), epigenetic mechanisms in leukemia and stem cells (Dr. Luciano Di Croce), regulation of alternative splicing (Dr. Juan Valcárcel) and cytoplasmic polyadenylation and mRNA translation (Dr. Fátima Gebauer), gene function (Dr. Susana de la Luna) and epigenetic reprogramming in embryogenesis and the germline (Dr. Bernhard Payer). Stem cell studies include differentiation and transdifferentiation in the hematopoietic system (Dr. Thomas Graf), and somatic cell reprogramming and tissue regeneration (Dr. Maria Pia Cosma) .

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: The program’s retreat, November 2016 (pictures)

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: The program’s retreat, October 2013 (pictures)