Kathrin Plath

Humboldt University, Berlin Germany

Kathrin Plath earned her doctorate degree in cell biology from Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), performed her postdoctoral studies at UCSF and the Whitehead Institute at MIT, and then joined the faculty at the University of California Los Angeles. Her lab uses differentiation and reprogramming processes from and to the pluripotent state as models for studying the molecular mechanisms underlying cell fate changes and cellular specification with a particular emphasis on enhancer selection, genome organization, and the role of long-noncoding RNAs in X chromosome dosage compensation. She serves on the editorial board of Cell, Science, and other journals, supports the International Society for Stem Cell Research in various roles, and has been selected as HHMI Faculty Scholar.