Francesco Neri, Phd
Aging
Fritz Stephan GmbH Medizintechnik
Germany
Biography
Francesco Neri obtained PhD in Biotechnology in Siena (Italy) working on embryonic stem cells epigenetics. Then he worked as Postdoc between Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF) in Torino (Italy) and the Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen (Netherlands) where specialized his research on the DNA methylation specific epigenetic mark on stem cell, differentiation and colon cancer. During this period, he characterized new mechanisms of gene transcriptional regulation, developed new genome-wide methods and identified the role of the intragenic methylation. Since 2016, he is the Group Leader of the “Epigenetics research group” at the Fritz Lipmann Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI) in Jena (Germany).
Research Interest
His current research is supported by the Sofja Kovalevskaja starting grant of the von Humboldt foundation, and it is focused on the aging-dependent epigenetic aberrations occurring in adult stem cells promoting colon cancer.
