KikuË Tachibana-konwalski

Biography

"EDUCATION 2001-2005 PhD in DNA replication, Ron Laskey lab, University of Cambridge, UK 1997-2000 BA Hons, Natural Sciences, Genetics (Class 1), University of Cambridge, UK AWARDS 2017 Walther Flemming Award 2016 EMBO Young Investigator (YIP) 2014 Young Academy (JK) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2005 MRC Career Development Fellowship 2004 Magdalena College Bye-Fellowship 2001-2004 MRC Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 2017 INVITED MEETINGS 1. Int’l Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology, Leipzig, Germany 2. EMBO Workshop Awakening the Genome, Dresden, Germany 3. EMBO YIP Annual Meeting, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany 4. GRC Epithelial Differentiation & Keratinization, Il Ciocco, Italy - declined 5. GRC Chromosome Dynamics, Il Ciocco, Italy 6. SMC Workshop, Yamagata, Japan 7. GRC Genome Architecture in Cell Fate and Disease, Hong Kong, China - declined 8. EMBO Meiosis Conference, Hvar, Croatia 9. EMBO at Basel Life, Basel, Switzerland 10. Stem Cell Symposium, CSHL, USA 11. 3D Genome Organization, Gif-sur-Yvette, France – declined 12. Single Cell Genomics, Weizmann Institute, Israel - declined 13. Harvard PQG Conference, Boston, USA 14. MitoCheckSys, Nice, France"

Research Interest

Totipotency, chromatin structure, maternal age effect, mammalian oocyte-to-zygote transition