Prof. Marisa Bartolomei University of Pennsylvania, USA

Marisa Bartolomei is the Perelman Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Co-Director of the Epigenetics Institute at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland and then obtained her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.... read moreShe trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Shirley Tilghman at Princeton University. In 1993, Dr. Bartolomei was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1999 and to Professor in 2006. In 2006, Dr. Bartolomei received the Society for Women's Health Research Medtronics Prize for Contributions to Women's Health. In 2011, she received the Jane Glick Graduate School Teaching Award for the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a MERIT award from the NIH. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and was elected Member-At-Large of the Section on Biological Sciences for AAAS (2016-2020 term). Dr. Bartolomei is the recipient of the 2017 Genetics Society Medal from the UK Genetics Society. Her research addresses the epigenetic mechanisms of genomic imprinting and X inactivation, as well as the impact of adverse environmental insults on epigenetic gene regulation using the mouse as a model.