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Hilgers Lab

Group Leader Valérie Hilgers

Valérie Hilgers, born 1982, studied Biology at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. She earned her PhD at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany and the Temasek Life Sciences Institute, Singapore.

From 2010 to 2016, Valérie Hilgers was a Postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley, USA in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Since 2016, Valérie Hilgers is Group Leader of a Max Planck Research Group at Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany.

With her lab in Freiburg she studies the genetics and epigenetics of the nervous system. The team investigates neuron-specific RNA signatures and their role in neuronal development and function by using technologies range from functional Drosophila genetics, behavior studies, and imaging, to RNA biochemistry and transcriptomics approaches.

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