A CNRS researcher within the Genome Integrity and Cancer unit (IGC – Univ. Paris-Saclay/Gustave Roussy/CNRS), Nataliya Petryk leads the Genome and Epigenome Replication team (Réplication du génome et de l’épigenome). The European Research Council awarded her a grant for her project REGEM (“REvealing the mechanisms linking Genome replication and Epigenome Maintenance”). The ERC-funded REGEM project aims to uncover how cells coordinate the copying of their DNA with the preservation of their epigenome, the additional layer of information that controls gene activity and determines each cell’s identity and function.
Nataliya graduated the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) with a MSc in Biology and Genetics in 2006. She then moved to France to pursue her PhD training at the L’Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie (IGM) and gained her PhD from the Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) in 2010. She continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the The École normale supérieure – PSL (France), Biotech Research and Innovation Center (BRIC, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Université de Paris (France), and became a tenured researcher at the CNRS in 2021. In May 2022 Nataliya Petryk became a Principal Investigator and since then she leads the Genome and Epigenome Replication team (Réplication du génome et de l’épigenome).
The ERC Consolidated Grants program provides funding for research projects with a maximum budget of €2 million over a period of up to five years. This prestigious award is designed to support exceptional researchers who wants to consolidate their independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe. In this round the success rate was approximately 11,2%.
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