Eileen Furlong
Eileen Furlong | |
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| Born | Eileen E.M. Furlong |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin (BSc, PhD) |
| Awards | Member of the Academia Europaea (2016) EMBO Membership (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Enhancers Chromatin topology Embryonic development Single cell genomics Transcription factors |
| Institutions | European Molecular Biology Laboratory Stanford University |
| Thesis | Tissue-specific regulation of gene expression by the transcription factors Ying-Yang 1 and nuclear factor 1 (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Finian Martin |
| Website | furlonglab |
Eileen E. M. Furlong FRS MAE is an Irish molecular biologist working in the fields of transcription, chromatin biology, developmental biology and genomics. 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. 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, the Academia Europaea in 2016 and to EMBO’s research council in 2018.