Susan M. Gasser
Biology
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Switzerland
Biography
2005 Full Professor, Molecular Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland 2004- Director, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 2001-2004 Full Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland 1991-2001 Senior Group Leader, ISREC, Epalinges, Switzerland 1986-1991 Junior Group Leader, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), Epalinges, Switzerland 1983-1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Research Interest
Our goal is to understand how chromosomal integrity is maintained, how cells ensure an accurate propagation of the genome, and how cells regulate the complex pattern of gene expression that occurs during tissue differentiation
Publications
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Hauer, M.H., Seeber, A., Singh, V., Thierry, R., Sack, R., Amitai, A., Kryzhanovska, M., Eglinger, J., Holcman, D., Owen-Hughes, T. and Gasser, S.M (2017) Histone degradation in response to DNA damage enhances chromatin dynamics and recombination rates. Nature Struct. Mol. Biology, doi: 10.1038/nsmb.3347
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Amitai, A., Seeber, A., Gasser, S.M.* and Holcman, D. (2017) Visualization of chromatin decompaction and break site extrusion as predicted by statistical polymer modeling of single locus trajectories. Cell Reports, 18, 1200-1214
