Dr Joanna Jachowicz

IMBA, Vienna Biocenter, Austria

Joanna Jachowicz is a Group Leader at IMBA, Vienna Biocenter, Austria since August 2022. Joanna is originally from Poland and obtained her BS and MS degrees in Biology and Psychology from University of Warsaw. She did her PhD studies in IGBMC, France and completed her postdoctoral studies in the lab of Prof. Mitch Guttman at Caltech, USA. In her research, she has been investigating how transposons and non-coding RNA regulate genome functions during early mammalian development. Her group aims to understand how the cell-specific transcription program and 3D genome architecture arise, are controlled, and interplay to determine the fate of each individual cell in a developing embryo. They use embryonic stem cells and early mouse embryos as model systems and employ novel, genome-wide technologies that allow to simultaneously measure 3D nuclear organization and transcriptome in single cells.