Karen Lipkow

Karen Lipkow is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. She works at the Babraham Institute in the Nuclear Dynamics group and is affiliated with the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery.

• Email: kl280@cam.ac.uk
• Office: +44 (0)1223 496508 | Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT

Research Interests

Dr. Lipkow’s research focuses on the three-dimensional organisation of eukaryotic genomes, combining computational modeling, quantitative live-cell microscopy, and techniques like chromatin conformation capture (3C, Hi-C) with functional genomics and proteomics. Her lab investigates:

• Temporal and condition-dependent changes in genome structure
• Molecular and biophysical mechanisms driving structural dynamics
• Biological consequences of altered genome organisation
• Spatial aspects of signaling in bacterial chemotaxis systems

She aims to uncover universal principles linking genome architecture to gene expression regulation.