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Renato Paro is Professor of
Molecular Biology at the Center for Molecular Biology
Heidelberg (ZMBH) and at the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Heidelberg. In 1982 he received his PhD
degree from the University of Basle, Switzerland. As a
postdoctoral fellow he spent one year in the Department
of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh and
three years in the Department of Biochemistry, Stanford
University Medical School. Since 1987 he is at the ZMBH
where he is currently acting as the Director of the institute.
During his postdoctoral stay he became interested in mechanisms
of cellular memory. He demonstrated that proteins regulating
chromatin structures are involved in stably and heritably
maintaining HOX gene expression patterns. His group developed
the chromatin immunoprecipitation protocol (ChIP), now
a widely used technique in chromatin research. He characterized
chromosomal elements conferring epigenetic inheritance
and demonstrated that chromatin-encoded epigenetic marks
can be transmitted through the germ line into the next
generation. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology
Organisation and of the Academia Europaea. |
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