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Christa Bücker is an Associate Professor at the Max Perutz Labs, affiliated with the Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics. Her research focuses on understanding gene regulation mechanisms, particularly the roles of enhancers and promoter-enhancer interactions in cellular processes. She investigates how genomic elements control gene expression during cell fate decisions and development.
Research Interests:
- Epigenetic regulation via enhancer regions
- Stem cell biology and pluripotency maintenance
- Genetic network dynamics in cellular differentiation
Recent Work Trends: Recent publications emphasize enhancer cooperativity, genomic distance effects, and the role of nonsense-mediated decay in gene expression timing. Her studies bridge molecular mechanisms with broader developmental biology contexts.
Grants & Projects: Active in securing research funding, including projects like 'Genome Enhancer Network Exploration' (GENE-TUNE) and 'Systematic dissection of enhancer interdependencies'.
