Dr. Minou Nowrousian
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Talk Title
The role of transcription factors and chromatin modifiers in multicellular development in ascomycetes
Biography
Minou Nowrousian earned her diploma and Ph.D. in biology at the Ruhr-University Bochum in the laboratory of Dr. Ulrich Kück working in molecular biology of fungi. During her postdoc at Dartmouth Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Jay Dunlap and Dr. Jennifer Loros, she worked on circadian rhythms in Neurospora. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Botany at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her group combines molecular genetics and bioinformatics to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of fungal development. A focus of her work is the analysis of the role of chromatin modifiers and transcription factors during fungal multicellular development using genomics and transcriptomics, which will be presented at ECFG17.