Tanja Vogel PhD

Prof. Dr. Tanja Vogel was recruited as professor for anatomy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. She studied biochemistry until 1994 at the University of Hannover and acquired her Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the same university working in the Institute of Human Genetics at the Medical School Hannover. Prof. Vogel worked as a postdoc at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh till 2000 and at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In 2005 she joined the Department of Neuroanatomy at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and received the venia legend for Anatomy together with the price for the best habilitation in 2010. Prof. Vogel is the current speaker of the DFG-funded research training group "MeInBio" and heads a research group that explores basic mechanisms of transcriptional control in the specification of neural stem cells. The research focuses specifically on epigenetic mechanisms and transcription factor network activities involved in the development of the central nervous system. To understand how stem cells are instructed to exert transcriptional programs necessary to conduct proper differentiation, the group uses multi-omics and high throughput sequencing data up to the single-cell level. To translate the group's expertise from animal models toward understanding human stem cell specification,