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François Guillemot Biography
François Guillemot was born and grew up in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and graduated from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Biology. He obtained his PhD at the Institut d’Embryologie in Nogent sur Marne, directed by Nicole Le Douarin, working on the development of the immune system and the structure of the major histocompatibility complex in the chick.
From 1989 to 1991, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Constance Cepko at Harvard Medical School where he worked on the role of growth factors in the development of the retina. From 1991 to 1994, he worked with Alex Joyner at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto where he started studying bHLH transcription factors involved in cell fate specification in the mouse embryo.
He then returned to France and established a research group at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire in Strasbourg, where he identified novel proneural bHLH genes and studied their function by gene targeting in mice.
In 2002 he moved to NIMR in Mill Hill, London, taking up a tenured position in the Division of Molecular Neurobiology. He continues to work on the transcriptional control of neurogenesis, expanding its interests to adult neurogenesis and to the epigenetic regulation of gene expression in neural development.
Guillemot group
Recent publications
Research projects
- Elucidating the genetic programmes for neurogenesis and gliogenesis
- Regulating gene expression in neural progenitors
- Using stem cells for neuronal repair
Guillemot biography
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