Principal investigator at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Giacomo Cavalli currently works at the Institut de Génétique Humaine, French National Centre for Scientific Research. Giacomo does research in Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology and Cancer Research. His lab focus is on 3D Genome folding and on the function of Polycomb and Trithorax proteins in epigenetic inheritance. Their current project is ‘Epigenetic regulation of development.
Our laboratory is at the Institute of Human Genetics, a major research center of the French CNRS research agency. The Institute is dedicated to excellence in fundamental research and pathology. The principal research interests of the IGH are genome dynamics and epigenetics, developmental genetics, and molecular and cellular pathology. We have an excellent infrastructure with state of the art facilities in genomics, imaging and proteomics, a large animal house for Drosophila and mouse, a very well furnished reagent store and in house services like image publication assistance, informatics, bioinformatics and web support.
