Tatjana Sauka-Spengler

Professor of Developmental Genomics and Gene Regulation

Tatjana Sauka-Spengler is Professor of Developmental Genomics and Gene Regulation at the University of Oxford. She runs a multidisciplinary research group at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and is a Principal Investigator at Stowers Insitute for Medical research. Prof Sauka-Spengler has interdisciplinary background and training in both physics and biology, and her research is guided by a profound interest in understanding network organisation of gene regulatory programmes underlying developmental processes and their modification in human disease. One of the main focuses of her lab is on deciphering gene regulatory circuitry that orchestrates development of vertebrate neural crest cells and cardiac cell types.