Michał Dąbrowski (Nencki Institute, Poland)

Speaker: Michał Dąbrowski, PhD (Nencki Institute, Poland)

Talk: Analysis of global transcriptional regulation in brain starting from genomic and expression data

Time: April 11, 2014, 9:00

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of UG&MUG, Kładki 24, Gdańsk, lecture hall B

Category: Invited seminar

Michał Dabrowski, biographical note

Physician by education, PhD in experimental molecular biology, about 10 years’ experience in bioinformatics, mainly analysis of global gene expression and regulatory genomics data.
Employment history (main places): Nencki Institute, Szpital Specjalistyczny w Kościerzynie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Currently: Nencki Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, head: prof. Bożena Kamińska.
Key scientific achievements: demonstration of cell-autonomous regulation of differentiation of hippocampal neurons, identification of transcriptional regulators common to stroke and seizures, demonstration that matrix attachment region binding protein modulates transcriptional activation, identification of key proteins stimulating host microglia to promote tumor growth, creation of the first regulatory genomics database for the rat.
Ongoing projects: a bioinformatics project of creation of a portal with tools for regulatory genomics, and a (starting) experimental project utilizing very high-throughput next generation sequencing to identify TFs involved in microglia reeducation by glioma.