Daniela Rhodes
Director, Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Daniela Rhodes has spent all of her scientific career at the world-renowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. After obtaining her PhD in 1982 under the guidance of Nobel Prize winner, Aaron Klug, she was appointed Group Leader in 1983, obtained tenure in 1987 and was promoted to Senior Scientist in 1994 (equivalent to Full Professor). Between 2003 and 2006 she served as Director of Studies. She has also been Visiting Professor at both “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy and the Rockefeller University in NY, USA. She joined the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University as professor in September 2011. Her professional experience includes evaluating research grants and fellowships for national and international funding bodies including the UK Royal Society UK, the US National institute of Health, the European Research Council, the Human Frontiers of Science Programme and the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). She chairs EMBO Council since 2009.
Research Interest
chromosome biology
Publications
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Nucleosome repeat length and linker histone stoichiometry determine chromatinfiber structureRouth, A., Sandin , S. and Rhodes, D.(2008) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 105: 8872-7.
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30 nm chromatin fibre decompaction requires both H4-K16 acetylation and linker histone evictionRobinson, P.J., An, W., Routh, A., Martino, F., Chapman, L.,Roeder, R.G. and Rhodes, D.(2008) J. Mol. Biol. 381: 816-25.
