Elena Stoyanova

Elena is a Platform Engineer in Paul Rothwell’s team at Touchlight Genetics, where she is working on developing a novel homology directed repair (HDR) template technology for CRISPR-based genome engineering. She joined the company in August 2020, shortly after finishing a PhD in Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics with Dr. Patrick Varga-Weisz at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK. Her PhD work was focused on the metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone modifications in the mammalian intestinal epithelium. Elena has a BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of York, UK. During her degree, she completed a placement year in the Molecular Microbiology department at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, investigating microbial biosynthesis of bioactive natural products.