Prof. Dr. Nicola Iovino
Focus of research
- Investigation of epigenetic inheritance and its role in regulating adaptive gene expression in response to environmental stimuli, with the aim of elucidating the fundamental mechanisms of biological diversity and evolution.
CV
- Since 2024, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
- 2014–2024, Independent Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
- 2007–2013 Postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and at the IGH-CNRS, Montpellier, France
- 2003–2007 Ph.D. at Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- 1997–2002 Studied biology at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Honours
- 2017 EMBO Young Investigator
- 2018 ERC Consolidator grant
Publications
- Chromatin landscape at cis-regulatory elements orchestrates cell fate decisions in early embryogenesis (2025) Cardamone F., Piva A., Löser E., Eichenberger B., Romero-Mulero M.C., Zenk F., Shields E.J., Cabezas-Wallscheid N., Bonasio R., Tiana G., Zhan Y., Iovino N. Nature Comm.
- Inheritance of H3K9 methylation regulates genome architecture in Drosophila early embryos (2024) Atinbayeva N., Valent I., Zenk F., Loeser E., Rauer M., Herur S., Quarato P., Pyrowolakis G., Gomez-Auli A., Mittler G., Cecere G., Erhardt S., Tiana G., Zhan Y., Iovino N. Embo Journal, 2024 Jul;43(13)
- CBP and Gcn5 drive zygotic genome activation independently of their catalytic activity. (2023) Ciabrelli F., Rabbani L., Cardamone F., Zenk F., Löser E., Schächtle M., Loubiere V. and Iovino N. Science Advances 9, Issue 16
- HP1 drives de novo 3D genome reorganization in early Drosophila embryos. (2021) Zenk F., Zhan Y., Kos P., Löser E., Atinbayeva N., Schächtle M., Tiana G., Giorgetti L., Iovino N. Nature 593, 289–293
- Germ line–inherited H3K27me3 restricts enhancer function during maternal-tozygotic transition. (2017) Zenk F., Loeser E., Schiavo R., Kilpert F., Bogdanović O., Iovino N. Science 357, 212-216