2014 Laureate
Current Position
Institute Director and Professor
Host Institution
Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Munich, Germany
torres-padilla@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Male (left) and female (right) chromosomes during the first mitosis after fertilisation.
Research in Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla’s laboratory focuses on understanding how early mouse development is regulated by chromatin-mediated changes in gene regulation, that is, by epigenetic information. In particular, we are interested in understanding how the transitions in cell potency and cell fate are regulated by chromatin-mediated processes.
• 2002 : Ph. D. , Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, Mary C. Weiss' lab, Analysis of the expression and functional characterisation of HNF4α isoforms
• 2002-2006 : Postdoctoral (EMBO Long-term) fellow, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz' lab, Regulation of early mammalian development
• 2006-2008 : Senior Scientist, IGBMC, Strasbourg, France, Laszlo Tora's lab
• 2008 : Appointed Group leader at the IGBMC
• 2016 : Lab move at the Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Cells, Munich, Germany
• Selected as 'Young Scientist' by the World Economic Forum, 2016
• EMBO Member, 2015
• EMBO Young Investigator, 2011
• Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), 2011
• Elected RISE1 Member of EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence, 2011
• Prize Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) Alsace, 2009
• Avenir Grant, Inserm, 2009-2011
May 2014
Starting embryonic transcription for the first time
May 2017, Nat. Genet.
Higher chromatin mobility supports totipotency and precedes pluripotency in vivo
May 2014, Genes Dev
Live visualization of chromatin dynamics with fluorescent TALEs./a>
Nov 2013, Nat Struct Mol Biol.