Speakers

Christel Depienne is Professor of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Essen, Germany.

Positions

• She leads a research group in neurogenetics.
• Her research focuses on solving rare neurological disorders that remain unexplained after routine genetic testing, with a particular interest in non-coding and repetitive regions of the human genome.
• Her group combines short- and long-read genomics, transcriptomics and cellular models to uncover novel disease mechanisms.

Areas of special interest

• Neurogenetics
• Rare neurological disorders
• Non-coding and repetitive genomic regions
• Advanced multi-omics genomics