Dr Katharina Gapp

Post doctoral fellow

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

Katharina is a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Eric Miska, interested in environmentally triggered psychopathology and the role of epigenetics as a mean of storage of experiences. Her research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms underlying the transmission of acquired traits.

My research explores mechanisms underlying the epigenetic transmission of acquired traits, with a particular focus on inherited disease risk. During my phd studies in Isabelle Mansuy´s lab of neuroepigenetics at ETH Zürich I demonstrated the involvement of sperm RNAs in the transgenerational effects of early life stress. I am now interested in extrapolating these findings to other models.

My timeline

• Dr. sc. ETH Zürich

• Mag. rer. nat University of Vienna

• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Master thesis

• Gymnasium Adolf Pichler Platz Innsbruck, Austria