Ana Pombo
Imagine a huge library - not just a storehouse of millions of books, but an active system that decides which book to open and read at any time. This is how our cell nucleus works: two metres of DNA, precisely folded and organized like a living archive.
Ana Pombo and her team have developed groundbreaking methods to visualize the three-dimensional structure of DNA in individual cells. Could decoding this "hidden logic" enable new therapies that reverse pathological cell changes at a very early stage?
Ana Pombo, biochemist and cell biologist, conducts research at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin and as a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 2025, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her groundbreaking research.
Language: English
Details:
Date: 25.10.2025
Time: 20:00
Type:
The living archive
How the cell nucleus organizes and controls our genes
Event type:
Geist Heidelberg In dialogue
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