Marta Koblowska
University of Warsaw, Poland
Biography
Marta Koblowska is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw. Since 2008, she is the Head of the Laboratory of Microarray Analysis, in the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests focus around chromatin function in regulating gene expression changes in plant adaptation to stress conditions. Her group recently showed that plant specifi c histone deacetylase HD2C interacts with BRM-containing SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex and both are involved in mediating the heat stress response in Arabidopsis.