Eileen Furlong

Eileen Furlong
Born
Eileen E.M. Furlong
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin (BSc, PhD)
AwardsMember of the Academia Europaea (2016)
EMBO Membership (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsEnhancers
Chromatin topology
Embryonic development
Single cell genomics
Transcription factors[1]
InstitutionsEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory
Stanford University
ThesisTissue-specific regulation of gene expression by the transcription factors Ying-Yang 1 and nuclear factor 1 (1996)
Doctoral advisorFinian Martin[2]
Websitefurlonglab.embl.de

Eileen E. M. Furlong FRS MAE is an Irish molecular biologist working in the fields of transcription, chromatin biology, developmental biology and genomics.[3] She is known for her work in understanding how the genome is regulated, in particular to how developmental enhancers function, how they interact within three dimensional chromatin topologies and how they drive cell fate decisions during embryogenesis.[1][4][5] She is Head of the Department of Genome Biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Furlong was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2013,[6] the Academia Europaea in 2016[7] and to EMBO’s research council in 2018.[8]

  1. ^ a b Eileen Furlong publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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  3. ^ Eileen Furlong publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ^ "Deciphering the regulatory code". EMBL. 4 November 2009.
  5. ^ Niemitz, Emily (2014). "Synthetic modeling of developmental enhancers". Nature Genetics. 46 (2): 99. doi:10.1038/ng.2888. ISSN 1546-1718. S2CID 38520086.
  6. ^ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org.
  7. ^ "Academy of Europe: Furlong Eileen". ae-info.org.
  8. ^ "Council". EMBO. 22 March 2021.