Rudolf Jaenisch
Professor
BIOLOGY
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
United States of America
Biography
Jaenisch received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Munich in 1967. Before coming to Whitehead, he was head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute at the University of Hamburg. He has coauthored more than 375 research papers and has received numerous prizes and recognitions, including an appointment to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003
Research Interest
pigenetic regulation of gene expression epigenetic mechanisms for certain types of cancer and for brain development, studying how conditions such as Rett Syndrome occur
Publications
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Boyer, L. A., Lee, T. I., Cole, M. F., Johnstone, S. E., Levine, S. S., Zucker, J. P., ... & Gifford, D. K. (2005). Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human embryonic stem cells. cell, 122(6), 947-956.
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Bernstein, B. E., Mikkelsen, T. S., Xie, X., Kamal, M., Huebert, D. J., Cuff, J., ... & Jaenisch, R. (2006). A bivalent chromatin structure marks key developmental genes in embryonic stem cells. Cell, 125(2), 315-326.
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Jaenisch, R., & Bird, A. (2003). Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals. Nature genetics, 33(3s), 245.
