Ana Pombo

Past Members

Ana Pombo

Humboldt University, Berlin Professor

Genome ArchitectureGene RegulationChromatin Organization

2000–2002

Group Head, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (CSC), London, UK

2002–2013

MRC Programme Leader, CSC, London, UK

2002–2007

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London (ICL), UK

2007–2011

Honorary Reader, ICL, UK

2011–2012

Honorary Professor, ICL, UK

2012–2015

Professor, ICL, UK

2013–

MDC Group Head, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Germany

2013–

Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin

2007

Robert Feulgen Prize 2007, Society for Histochemistry

1998 – 2002

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, University of Oxford and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, UK.

1997 – 2000

Hayward Junior Research Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford, UK.

2017

Beagrie RA, Scialdone A, Schueler M, Kraemer DC, Chotalia M, Xie SQ, Barbieri M, de Santiago I, Lavitas LM, Branco MR, Fraser J, Dostie J, Game L, Dillon N, Edwards PA, Nicodemi M, Pombo A. Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by genome architecture mapping. Nature. 2017 Mar 23;543(7646):519-524.

2016

Beagrie RA, Pombo A. Gene activation by metazoan enhancers: Diverse mechanisms stimulate distinct steps of transcription. Bioessays. 2016 Sep;38(9):881-93.

2015

Fraser J, Ferrai C, Chiariello AM, Schueler M, Rito T, Laudanno G, Barbieri M, Moore BL, Kraemer DC, Aitken S, Xie SQ, Morris KJ, Itoh M, Kawaji H, Jaeger I, Hayashizaki Y, Carninci P, Forrest AR; FANTOM Consortium., Semple CA, Dostie J, Pombo A, Nicodemi M. Hierarchical folding and reorganization of chromosomes are linked to transcriptional changes in cellular differentiation. Mol Syst Biol. 2015 Dec 23;11(12):852.

2015

Dias JD, Rito T, Torlai Triglia E, Kukalev A, Ferrai C, Chotalia M, Brookes E, Kimura H, Pombo A. Methylation of RNA polymerase II non-consensus Lysine residues marks early transcription in mammalian cells. Elife. 2015 Dec 19;4. pii: e11215.

2015

Pombo A, Dillon N. Three-dimensional genome architecture: players and mechanisms. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2015 Apr;16(4):245-57.