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Lucy Cornell
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research groups
I am a postdoctoral scientist working with Prof Doug Higgs and Dr Mira Kassouf. My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underpinning enhancer-promoter communication in erythrocytes. I utilise genome engineering, molecular techniques and bioinformatics to probe the syntax of cis-regulatory elements, including boundary elements, promoters and enhancers, to determine their contributions to enhancer-promoter interactions.
EDUCATION
I completed my BSc Hons at the University of Edinburgh and then pursued an MRes at Imperial College London. I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Chromosome and Developmental Biology Studentship to complete my DPhil studies at the University of Oxford.
Recent publications
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Super-enhancers include classical enhancers and facilitators to fully activate gene expression.
Journal article
Blayney JW. et al, (2023), Cell, 186, 5826 - 5839.e18
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The characteristics of CTCF binding sequences contribute to enhancer blocking activity
Preprint
Tsang F. et al, (2023)
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Multipartite super-enhancers function in an orientation-dependent manner
Journal article
Kassouf M. et al, (2022)
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Novel aspects of iron homeostasis in pathogenic bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei
Journal article
Gilabert Carbajo C. et al, (2021), PLOS Pathogens, 17, e1009696 - e1009696