Prof Claire Rougeulle

Université Paris Cité, France

Claire Rougeulle is a group leader and the Deputy Director of the Epigenetics and Cell Fate center at Université Paris Cité, France. She is also Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, and Coordinator of the Labex (laboratory of excellence) research consortium “Who Am I?”, which addresses, in a multidisciplinary manner, the question of identity. She obtained her PhD in 1996 from Pierre et Marie Curie University, France, and joined the CNRS in 1999 after her post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School of Boston. She has been working in the field of epigenetics for her entire career, with a strong focus on X chromosome inactivation in mammals, as a paradigm of epigenetic regulation. Her team's work interrogates the role played by non-coding RNAs in this process and in the plasticity of epigenetic regulations in evolution. Her group is currently studying the control of X chromosome activity in relation to cell fate in human and non-human primates.