Deplancke lab – Laboratory of Systems Biology and Genetics
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The central research focus of the Laboratory of Systems Biology and Genetics (LSBG) is to understand genome organization, regulation, and variation and is broadly partitioned according to three major research pillars:
Adipo
In the “Adipo” pillar, we are characterizing the regulatory mechanisms driving mesenchymal stromal cell heterogeneity and function in adipose biology and other metabolically relevant processes.
Geno
In the “Geno” pillar, we are examining how variation in the regulatory code affects molecular and organismal diversity.
Techno
In the “Techo” pillar, we are developing novel microfluidic, high-throughput sequencing, single cell omic, and computational approaches, which are used to address biological questions in the other two pillars.
Latest news
28.04.2021
Alithea Genomics wins CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to advance their BRB-seq kit offering and continue to expand the throughput and cost-efficiency of RNA-seq. Congratulations!
15.04.2021
Maria Litovchenko from Bart Deplancke’s group explains how she and her coauthors were able to map circadian gene activity in three tissues of interest and across 140 genomes of Drosophila, by sampling each genotype only once.
11.02.2021
A new lab publication in Science Advances: “Extensive tissue-specific expression variation and novel regulators underlying circadian behavior.”
Read EPFL’s press release related to these breakthrough discoveries: “Genes that dance to the circadian rhythm.”
Discover press article from The Academic Times: “Biological clock varies due to gene expression, fruit fly study reveals.”
Listen to a recent interview on the RTS (in French) about this study.
08.02.2021
Congratulations to Dr. Guido Van Mierlo and Dr. Wouter Saelens on being awarded with the prestigious Marie-Curie fellowships!
Our creations / innovations / inventions
Catalyze4life
Catalyze4life’s mission is to support translational projects and to educate to innovate
Junior European Drosophilia Investigators (JEDI)
The JEDIs are early career scientists working on Drosophila melanogaster in Europe.
Contact
Office Number: SV 3823
Administration: Joanna Rusnok
Office Number: SV 3515