«David [Baulcombe]'s group developed a number of very
interesting gene silencing systems at the time and Olivier was very good at seeing connections between these and designing elegant experiments to test them,» Hamilton, today a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, writes in an e-mail.
Not exact matches
His current specific
interest is the elucidation of novel mechanisms of drug resistance through the discovery / identification of novel
gene function (s) and phenotypes using RNAi - mediated
gene silencing or cDNA overexpression.
By expressing foreign
genes in target cell types, they hope to be able to specifically
silence or activate cells of
interest.
We are
interested in dissecting the mechanisms of epigenetic
gene silencing and understanding the functional relevance of DNA methylation in diseases.