Regular biography
Assoc. Prof. Melissa Fullwood is an Associate Professor in the Department of BIO at Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include Cancer biology, 3D genome organization, RNA Biology, Artificial intelligence, and Aging and metabolism. Her lab focuses on understanding and therapeutically targeting 3D genome organization, RNA biology, and functional consequences in cancer. The lab also explores artificial intelligence in epigenomics and RNA biology, as well as the development of new wet and dry lab methods to investigate these areas. The lab's main hypothesis is that RNA regulated by aberrant 3D genome organization constitutes a key therapeutic vulnerability in cancer.
Scholar-generated biography
Melissa Jane Fullwood is an Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, specializing in 3D genome organization, Artificial Intelligence in epigenomics, RNA biology, and Cancer and Aging. Her research explores the structural and functional aspects of chromatin interactions, particularly in transcription regulation and cancer. Fullwood's work includes the development of tools like ChIA-PET for chromatin interaction analysis and the investigation of long non-coding RNAs in cancer progression. She has contributed to understanding how chromatin architecture influences gene expression and how these mechanisms are perturbed in diseases such as cancer.