ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Propagation of cellular memory through dormancy
Decades of work established the importance of dormant cells in reproduction and regeneration, however, a central unsolved question is how the cell propagates transcriptional memory and cellular identity through dormancy. Current approaches tend to characterize dormancy as a binary on-off switch. In contrast, a highly coordinated and precisely timed set of events are needed to successfully transition cells into dormancy, to maintain dormancy, and to exit it. In DOR-CODE, I will leverage the latest gene editing and genome profiling tools on an inducible and reversible embryonic dormancy model that I spearheaded (Bulut-Karslioglu et al, 2016, van der Weijden et al, 2022) to discover the…
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