Judith Kribelbauer

Judith Kribelbauer serves as the Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, pioneering high-throughput techniques to decode human gene regulation mechanisms and advance synthetic genomics for therapeutic applications.

Her academic journey includes:

• B.S. in Chemistry from Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg, Germany, researching the structural basis of signal recognition particle targeting complexes in Dr. Irmgard Sinning’s lab.
• Ph.D. from Columbia University, NY (2018), supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute international student fellowship, developing tools to probe transcription factor binding responses to epigenetic modifications and protein interactions under Drs. Harmen Bussemaker and Richard Mann.
• Postdoctoral training as an EMBO and Marie-Curie Fellow at EPFL, Switzerland, devising computational-experimental frameworks to investigate transcription factor cooperative enhancer environments and enhancer-promoter communication in Dr. Bart Deplancke’s lab.

Her research spans Gene Regulation, Synthetic Genomics, Transcription Factors, Epigenetics, Enhancer-Promoter Communication, and Gene Therapy, with her lab engineering minimal gene regulatory modules to dissect expression control in health and disease toward optimizing gene therapy design strategies.

Her scientific contributions have been honored with:

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute international student fellowship
• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

While specific student mentorship details are unreported, her research program leverages interdisciplinary approaches combining molecular engineering, genomics, and computational biology, supported by her faculty appointment and prior prestigious fellowships to advance fundamental and therapeutic insights in gene regulation.