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Marisa Bartolomei - F1000 Faculty Member (since 01 September 2005)

Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Assistant Investigator: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY

EDUCATION:
BS, Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
PhD, Biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Cellular & Molecular Biology Training Program

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The research in the Bartolomei laboratory uses the mouse as a model system to study the mechanisms that control genomic imprinting and X inactivation. Both phenomena employ genetic and epigenetic strategies to distinguish and stably inactivate parental alleles or chromosomes.

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