Fides Zenk

Fides Zenk is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of BIO at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of computational neuroscience and biomedical engineering. She teaches courses such as Neuroscience Foundations for Engineers and Practical - Zenk Lab, which involve techniques like chromatin accessibility sequencing and single-cell biology. She is also involved in doctoral program committees in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and neuroscience.

Fides Zenk is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL, specializing in epigenetics and developmental biology. Her research focuses on understanding how chromatin dynamics and epigenetic mechanisms regulate cell fate decisions and genome activation during early development. She investigates the role of histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and epigenetic inheritance in processes such as zygotic genome activation and organoid development. Her work also explores the interplay between epigenetic factors and cellular signaling in disease contexts, including cancer stem cells and regenerative processes. Zenk employs advanced techniques like single-cell epigenomics and chromatin profiling to uncover regulatory networks in developmental and disease models.