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Epigenetic Events in Cancer

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Since its formation in May 2003, our group has focused its research efforts on understanding how epigenetic modifications and chromatin changes are established and, once in place, how they affect gene expression, cell differentiation and transformation. Gene expression and differentiation are mainly investigated in mouse embryonic stem cells, which can be induced to differentiate into embryoid bodies and neuronal precursors. Leukemia is the primary cancer model system studied in our lab, and we use either mouse models that recapitulate human leukemia or primary samples from human leukemic patients to investigate the links between epigenetic alterations and the tumorigenesis processes.

Luigi Aloia, Postdoctoral Fellow
Cecilia Julia Ballaré, Laboratory Technician
Malte Beringer, Postdoctoral Fellow
Santiago Demajo, Graduate Fellow
Arantxa Gutiérrez, Laboratory Technician
Payal Jain, Graduate Fellow
Lluís Morey, Postdoctoral Fellow
Paola Pisano, Graduate Fellow
Joana Ribeiro, Graduate Fellow
Alexandra Santanach, Graduate Fellow
Elisabeth Simboeck, Postdoctoral Fellow
Sophia Teichmann, Graduate Fellow

Latest publications

The dynamic interactome and genomic targets of Polycomb complexes during stem-cell differentiation.

27294783 - 2016-06-14
Nat Struct Mol Biol 2016 Jun 13;
Kloet SL, Makowski MM, Baymaz HI, van Voorthuijsen L, Karemaker ID, Santanach A, Jansen PW, Di Croce L, Vermeulen M

Editorial overview: Cancer genomics: Darwin meets Waddington: the interplay between cancer genomes and epigenomes.

27160922 - 2016-05-11
Curr Opin Genet Dev 2016 May 5;
Di Croce L, Shilatifard A

Emerging roles for Polycomb proteins in cancer.

27151431 - 2016-05-07
Curr Opin Genet Dev 2016 May 2;36:50-58
Pasini D, Di Croce L

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News flash

Missing link in epigenetics could explain conundrum of disease inheritance

08-07-2016 - All News

The process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation in an unexpected part of...

Epigenetic switch for obesity

08-02-2016 - All News

Obesity can sometimes be shut down It is well known that a predisposition to adiposity lies in our genes. A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology...