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School of the Biological Sciences

 

 

Group Leader, Department of Genetics 

Michael Imbeault's research is centred on KRAB zinc fingers, a large family of proteins that is silencing mobile elements within the genome and is similarly repurposed later by evolution to epigenetically control their domesticated activity. Learn more. 

 

Research Areas


Gene-regulatory networks
Evolution
Epigenetic silencing
KRAB zinc finger genes
Bioinformatics
 

Techniques


ChIP-seq
Genome editing (CRISPR)
Lentiviral vectors
Bioinformatics
 
 
   

 

Research Theme