Institute of Molecular Health Sciences
ETH Zurich
Otto-Stern-Weg 7
8093 Zurich
Switzerland
 | awutz@ethz.ch |
Epigenetic Regulation and Cell Identity control
For successful development, the information stored in the genome needs to be precisely regulated. During differentiation, each individual cell uses an ever-changing repertoire of epigenetic mechanisms to achieve proper control of gene expression. Our research focuses on understanding how the cell nucleus specifies the identities of the different cell types in the body, and how changes of cell identity are regulated in development.
Biography
Anton Wutz is Professor of Genetics at the Institute of Molecular Health Sciences at the ETH Zurich. He received his PhD from the Technical University of Graz in 1997 based on his work performed at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria. After postdoctoral work with Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA) he joined the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology as a group leader in 2001. In 2009 he moved to the University of Cambridge (UK), where he has been a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research from 2009 to 2013 His current research activities focus on nuclear mechanisms that regulate changes of cellular identity during stem cell differentiation and specify the diverse cell types of the body. His laboratory has contributed to the development of new genetic strategies for studying mammalian pathways.
