Nicolas Brancucci

Main Topic of PhD and Supervisor

  • “Identification and characterisation of epigenetic factors regulating antigenic variation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum”, supervised by Prof. Till Voss

Current Research Projects

  • Functional characterisation of var gene promoters
  • Identification of specific regulatory factors involved in var gene regulation
  • Description of chromatin composition at var loci and repetitive genomic sequences
  • Functional characterisation of PfHP1