Luca Giorgetti, PhD

Group Leader

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Maulbeerstrasse 66, CH-4058 Basel
E: luca.giorgetti@fmi.ch

T: +41 61 69 67038
giorgettilab.org

After studying physics, Luca obtained his PhD in Gioacchino Natoli’s lab at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan working on the molecular mechanisms underlying the inflammatory transcriptional response. He then moved to Paris for a postdoc with Edith Heard at the Curie Institute. There he participated to the discovery and characterization of topologically associating domains (TADs), and described the three-dimensional conformation of the inactive X chromosome. Luca has been a group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel since 2015. His group uses approaches at the interface between molecular biology and physics to understand the mechanisms by which chromosome structure and dynamics control transcriptional regulation by enhancers.