Chemistry of Life Theme: leader of WG 1 – Structure, function and dynamics of macromolecular complexes, LINXS Fellow

Cyril Dominguez, Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester

Dr Dominguez is a structural biologist interested mainly in protein-RNA interactions involved in the regulation of alternative splicing. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Aix-Marseille (France) and a PhD at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). After his PhD in 2004 he joined the laboratory of Fred Allain at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) where he studied the interaction between the splicing factor hnRNP F and G-tract RNAs. In 2010 he obtained an MRC Career Development Award Fellowship to initiate his own research programme at the University of Leicester. In 2015 he became a lecturer and in 2018 an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester.