Carlos Jimenez
- Postdoc, Bienko Group
I am a geneticist and molecular biologist specialized in epigenetics and chromatin biology, working as a postdoc in the Bienko group. Here I am studying the principles of genome and proteome spatial organization within the eukaryotic nucleus, funded by a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. My goal is to develop novel methods to profile the spatial distribution of the different nuclear components, in order to understand its functional meaning, interplay, and role in governing gene expression programming in relevant biological processes, such as developmental lineage determination.
After my undergraduate studies in Genetics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Molecular Biotechnology at Universitat de Barcelona, I obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research. During my PhD I studied the molecular functions of the mSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex in neuroblastoma, a pediatric solid tumor of the nervous system.
My research focus is understanding genome regulation at multiple levels, from spatial genome organization to chromatin accessibility and epigenetics, by developing novel technologies that allow us to comprehend biological processes such as development, and how these are perturbed in diseases such as cancer.
