Bernard Thienpont
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
KU Leuven
Dr. Bernard Thienpont is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, where he heads the Laboratory for Functional Epigenetics. He studied cardiogenetics as a graduate student with Koen Devriendt in Leuven, cardiac epigenetics as a Marie Curie fellow with Llew Roderick and Wolf Reik in Cambridge, UK, and cancer epigenetics as an FWO fellow with Diether Lambrechts at the VIB, Belgium.
Recent ASAP Preprints & Published Papers
Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics
The joint analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome from single cells is transforming our understanding of cell biology in health and disease. In less than a decade, the field has seen tremendous technological revolutions that enable crucial new insights into the interplay between intracellular and intercellular molecular…
More of less: Novel multi-ome profiling of single human neurons
Epigenetic modifications to DNA and chromatin interact to influence gene expression and cellular phenotypes, but defining these omics layers in complex tissues is a daunting task. In this issue of Cell Genomics, Luo et al. describe a novel single-cell multi-omic method, simultaneously profiling transcriptome, DNA methylome, and chromatin accessibility, to…
