
Elena Torlai Triglia
Dr Elena Torlai Triglia is a group leader and lecturer in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology at Queen Mary University of London (UK).
Dr Torlai Triglia trained as a computational and molecular biologist in the group of Prof. Ana Pombo at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany), where she studied gene regulation in stem cells and during neuronal development.
After her PhD, she moved to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (MA, US), where she investigated how healthy cells change during disease development, mentored by Prof. Brad Bernstein and Prof. Aviv Regev. In 2024, she moved to QMUL where her research group studies how the genetic and epigenetic state of a cell influences molecular, cellular and tissue behaviour during disease development, with a particular focus on cancer.
Sessions
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28-Jan-2026Epigenetics Stage