Eumorphia Remboutsika (Biology)
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Eumorphia Remboutsika leads the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Research Centre in Athens, Greece.
Eumorphia obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Patras in Greece and a PhD in Gene Expression in Gunter Kohlhaw's laboratory in the Biochemistry Department of Purdue University in the USA. She moved on, as a Marie Curie Fellow and then as an FRM Fellow, to do a postdoc in Epigenetics and Cell Biology in Pierre Chambon's laboratory at IGBMC in Strasbourg, France, and then as a TMR and MRC Fellow in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology in Robin Lovell Badge's laboratory at NIMR in London, United Kingdom.
In 2003, she returned to Greece to establish her own group at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Centre in Athens, Greece.
Her group looks at how stem cells acquire and maintain a neural identity by studying stem cells in the embryonic nervous system - the neural stem cells - using mouse as the experimental organism. The group uses a combination of molecular, genetic, cell biology and histological techniques to identify the genetic and epigenetic regulators of stem cell identity and potency that lead to self-renewal, differentiation and reprogramming. Unraveling the molecular mechanisms that govern the birth and self-renewal properties of stem cells is essential, as they represent the most appropriate donor cells in cell replacement therapies.
Eumorphia has one daughter, admittedly her best stem cell experiment.