EMBO Member

Alexander Meissner

MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin | Germany

EMBO 2018

DNA methylation in development and disease

Over the past decade, I have pursued two fundamental, but exceedingly complex, questions: how do cellular states change identities and what are the underlying epigenetic principles that guide these stable transitions?

Keywords: Epigenetics / DNA methylation / pluripotency / reprogramming / germ cells

Subject area(s): Chromatin & Transcription | Development | Differentiation & Death | Genomic & Computational Biology