Eileen Furlong

Gene Expression & Developmental Biology programmes
EMBL,
Heidelberg, Germany
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The Furlong lab is interested in understanding how transcriptional networks drive transitions states during development.  Over a decade of genetic studies in Drosophila have identified many essential and conserved factors involved in mesoderm specification. By using a time-course of ChIP-on-chip experiments and expression profiling experiments, the furlong group has constructed a global transcriptional network during successive stages of development.

In the context of this EvoNet ITN, the Ph.D. student will extend this network further by producing a high-resolution map of the binding profiles for two additional transcription factors (Brachyury and MyoD).  The post-doctoral fellow will integrate the network data for Drosophila and cross-compare the mesoderm network with the ortologous data in other species, as a collaboration between the groups within the ITN.