Joanna Wysocka

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Joanna Wysocka is a biologist, a professor at Stanford University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She specializes in chemical and systems biology as well as developmental biology.

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Wysocka was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and as a European Molecular Biology Organization international member in 2019. [1]

Early life and education

Wysocka was born in Poland. [2] When she was in university, she spent a summer working with molecular biologist Winship Herr at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and was invited back to do her Ph.D. [3] In 1998, she earned her M.Sc. from Warsaw University in molecular biology and moved to the United States for her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Science (Instytut Biochemii i Biofizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2006, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with David Allis at the Rockefeller University, specializing in chromatin biology. [4] During her postdoc, she discovered the structural fold in human proteins known as PHD fingers.

Research

Wysocka's research focuses on understanding mechanisms of gene regulation. Some of her most notable scientific contributions include the discovery of chromatin signatures in primed enhancer elements. Her group has also developed new tools for visualizing regulatory regions in living cells. [1] Her research has provided insight into how gene expression influences evolution, genomic variation and diseases. [1]

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References

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  2. "Joanna Wysocka | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)". carta.anthropogeny.org. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
  3. Gewin, Virginia (May 2013). "Turning point: Joanna Wysocka". Nature. 497 (7450): 527. doi: 10.1038/nj7450-527a . ISSN   1476-4687. S2CID   176980878.
  4. "Joanna Wysocka's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-30.