Genome regulation during embryonic development, cell fate decisions, transcriptional networks, developmental enhancers, chromatin topology, single cell genomics, heart development

2022 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

2022 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2022

2020+ Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) member for MDC, Berlin, and IGBMC, Strasbourg

2019-23 ERC advanced grant (DeCryPt)

2018+ Elected member to EMBO council

2016 Elected member Academia Europaea

2018+ Steering Committee of Single Cell Omics Germany (https://www.singlecell.de/)

2017+ Founder & co-director with Karsten Rippe of the Single Cell Genomics Centre Heidelberg, with over 25 groups from EMBL, DKFZ and Univ. of Heidelberg (https://single-cell-center-hd.de/)

2013 Elected EMBO member

2013-18 ERC advanced grant (CisRegVar)

1. Ghavi-Helm Y*, Jankowski A, Meiers S, Viales RR, Korbel JO*, Furlong EE*. (2019). Highly rearranged chromosomes reveal uncoupling between genome topology and gene expression. Nature Genetics, Aug;51(8):1272-1282

Cover & News &Views: A genome disconnect. Finn EH & Misteli T, Nature Genetics July 22, 2019 Research Highlight: Toppling TAD tenets, Koch L, Nature Reviews Genetics 31 July, 2019

2. Cusanovich DA, Reddington JP, Garfield DA, Daza R, Aghamirzaie D, Marco-Ferreres, R, Pliner, H, Christiansen L, Qiu X, Steemers FJ, Trapnell C, Shendure J*, Furlong EE*. (2018). The cis-regulatory dynamics of embryonic development at single cell resolution. Nature, Mar 22;555(7697):538-542 * Co-corresponding authors

3. Schor IE, Degner JF, Harnett D, Cannavò E, Casale FP, Shim H, Garfield DA, Birney E, Stephens M, Stegle O*, Furlong EE*. (2017). Promoter shape varies across populations and affects promoter evolution and expression noise. Nature Genetics 49(4):550-558. * Co-corresponding authors

4. Cannavò E, Koelling N, Harnett D, Garfield D, Casale FP, Ciglar L, Gustafson HE, Viales RR, Marco-Ferreres R, Degner JF, Zhao B, Stegle O, Birney E*, Furlong EE*. (2017). Genetic variants regulating expression levels and isoform diversity during embryogenesis. Nature. Jan 19;541(7637):402-406 * Co-corresponding authors

5. Ghavi-Helm Y., Klein FA, Pakozdi T, Ciglar L, Noordermeer D, Huber W, Furlong EE. (2014). Enhancer loops appear stable during development and are associated with paused polymerase. Nature Aug 7;512(7512):96-100