BOMB - Key Persons
Donna Bond is a Research Fellow working in the Department of Anatomy, at the University of Otago. During her PhD and Post-doctoral training her research focussed on understanding various epigenetic mechanisms in plants. Epigenetics is her research passion and she is now investigating its role in a variety of different vertebrate models.
Luca Schelle is an ambitious young scientist in the late stage of his master's degree at the University of Stuttgart. Works best while listening to nice reggae vibes.
Sven Höhn is doing his MSc in Technical Biology in Stuttgart. He is co-developing a new generation of CRISPR-based epigenetic editing tools and uses them to study the molecular underpinnings of the epigenetic system.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy
Tim Hore is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy, at the University of Otago (New Zealand). His research team is working to understand how epigenetic memory in the form of CG methylation evolved in vertebrates and its potential for defining cellular identity and passing on long term biological information throughout life and between generations. As such his team are working diverse models going from cultured stem cells to the iconic fillet in New Zealand fish-n-chips, the Elephant Shark.
Job Titles:
- Junior Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Tomasz Jurkowski is a Junior Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Epigenetics in the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. In his research he and his team are aiming to elucidate the molecular principles of epigenetic regulation by using CRISPR-Cas9-based epigenetic editing as well as biochemical approaches. We further employ the gained knowledge to epigenetically program cell's differentiation state and function (synthetic epigenetics).