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Anton Wutz - F1000 Faculty Member (since 10 May 2010)

Department of Biochemistry, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge, UK

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Principle Investigator Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge

EDUCATION:
1993-1997 PhD, Technical University Graz, Austria
1997-2001 Postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our group's interest is in nuclear mechanisms that regulate changes of cellular identity during stem cell differentiation and specify the diverse cell types of the body. Previously, we have used the mammalian dosage compensation process, X inactivation, as an experimentally tractable system for studying the developmentally regulated establishment of silent chromatin. This has put us in a position to apply previously generated tools for studying aspects in stem cell biology.

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