Fields of Research

Early embryogenesis in cattle and other mammals:

• Oogenesis and folliculogenesis

• Fertilization

• Epigenetic reprogramming and embryonic genome activation

• Cell division, cell differentiation and cell death

• Embryo-maternal communication

Molecular cytogenetics and molecular histology in animals

The evolution and large-scale organization of vertebrate genomes

Main Methods

• Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)

• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

• Immunostaining

• Reporter gene approaches

• Quantitative RT-PCR

• DNA FISH, RNA FISH