User:Samir Ounzain

What I do

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate working in the laboratory of Prof Thierry Pedrazzini in the Experimental Cardiology Unit, University of Lausanne Medical School, Switzerland.

Interests

Gene regulatory mechanisms, gene regulatory networks, cardiac development, cardiac hypertrophy, skeletal muscle biology, non-coding RNA

Projects

Identification of miRNAs and associated regulatory pathways modulating the regenerative response of the heart in zebrafish and mice. A comparative study

Characterizing the roles of novel enhancer associated non-coding RNAs in cardiac development and disease

The expression and roles of the Class IV POU domain transcription factors Brn-3a/POU4F1 and Brn-3b/POU4F2 during cardiac development (ICH, University College London)

Signaling and transcriptional mechanisms governing the development of cardiac hypertrophy in the neonatal and adult ventricular cardiac myocyte (NHLI, Imperial College London)

The role of telomeric transcription in striated muscle differentiation and maturation (William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London)

Regulatory mechanisms governing striated muscle specific expression of myocyte stress 1 (MS1)(University of Leicester) (Title: PhD thesis)