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Antoine Hocher leads the MIMIC (Molecular Innovations Microbial Interactions Chromatin) lab in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He completed his Bachelor of Physics and Master of Systems Biology at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, before obtaining his PhD in yeast heterochromatin silencing from the laboratory of Angela Taddei at the Institut Curie, also in Paris. Following his doctoral research, he moved to London to join the lab of Tobias Warnecke at the MRC-London Institute of Medical Sciences. His postdoctoral work has centered on the diversity of prokaryotic chromatin systems, and he is set to establish his own research group in 2024, supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award. His research interests include the constraints associated with using DNA as a carrier of genetic information and the evolutionary relationships among DNA-binding proteins across different species. Hocher's group investigates synthetic chromatin and molecular mimicry, utilizing computational biology, phylogenetics, molecular biology, and directed evolution in their studies.
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