Anne Ferguson-Smith
For the past 25 years, Anne Ferguson-Smith’s team has studied epigenetic inheritance and its role in mammalian development with a focus on genomic imprinting and the epigenetic control of genome function. This work has also contributed more generally to understanding pathways controlling developmental and physiological processes including neurogenesis and metabolism, and to a greater understanding of mechanisms regulating both dynamic and heritable epigenetic states. Most recently her team has identified a repertoire of mammalian epialleles associated with repetitive elements which exhibit inter-individual epigenetic variation. The function, properties and inheritance of these epialleles is currently being investigated.
Anne is the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics and Head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She was elected to EMBO in 2006, to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.
Abstracts this author is presenting:
