Chromatin Dynamics and Cell Proliferation

Olivier Cuvier


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Team members

  Researcher
  • Olivier Cuvier
  • Stéphane Schaak
  Technical staff
  • Refka Askri
  • Charlène Perrois
  Postdoctoral fellow
  • Robel Tesfaye
  PhD student
  • Naomi Schickele
  • Aurore Benoit

Presentation

We study how chromatin dynamics govern cell fate/proliferation through:

a) Nucleosome-positioning, which controls the accessibility of key genomic features such as gene promoters/bodies or replication origins.

b) Higher-order chromatin folding for the regulation of transcription/replication, which involves DNA looping to mediate long-range interactions between distinct/functional elements.

We investigate how specific chromatin modifiers (Mes-4/NSD, Hypb etc.), regulators (insulator and co-factors), and oncogenes (dref, …) impact transcription or replication through chromatin dynamics.

To this end, we employ biochemistry, molecular genetics, cellular biology combined with computational biology of high throughput sequencing data to tackle key aspects of chromatin organization. 

https://www-lbme.biotoul.fr/uk/equipes/grpcuvier/index.html

 

 

Projets

HiCfeat

G4Hunter

Chromatin-based clonal inheritance

Chromatin dynamics

Publications

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Funding

             

Alumni

Raphaël Mourad (Maître de Conférence)

Jun Liang (Assistant Professor)

Priscillia Lhoumaud (Postdoctoral researcher)

Laurent Lacroix (Chargé de Recherche)

Franck Court (Chargé de Recherche)

Emmanuelle Guillou (Maître de Conférence)

Eldon Emberly (Associate Professor)

Pascal Martin (Ingénieur de Recherche)

Gael Micas

Sophie Queille

Université Paul Sabatier
118 Route de Narbonne

31062 TOULOUSE Cedex
France


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