Irina Solovei

Dr. Irina Solovei is a leading researcher in nuclear architecture and chromatin organization at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Faculty of Biology, Department of Human Biology and BioImaging). Her work focuses on the functional implications of chromatin spatial arrangement, particularly in rod photoreceptor nuclei and its evolutionary significance.

• Key Research Themes: Chromatin segregation, nuclear inversion as adaptive optics, transcription loops, heterochromatin dynamics, lamin interactions, and self-organization of nuclear structures.
• Students: Dr. Yana Feodorova, Dr. Susanne Leidescher, Dr. Katharina Thanisch, Dr. Congdi Song, Dr. Simon Ullrich.
• Publications: 15+ recent works on chromatin mechanics, transcriptional architecture, and evolutionary nuclear design in journals like Cell, Nature, and eLife.