Rasmus Siersbæk Følg Rasmus
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark
Biografi
Associate Professor Rasmus Siersbæk has headed a research group at SDU since 2019. He received his PhD from SDU in 2012 and stayed on as a postdoc at SDU until 2015. He then moved to Cambridge (UK) to do a 4-year postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Carroll at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge. He started his independent research group at SDU as an assistant professor in 2019 and was promoted to associate professor in 2022.
Research in Rasmus’ group focuses on the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms controlling cell function in the context of breast cancer. Transcription factors and their associated co-regulatory proteins function as key determinants of the cellular phenotype by specifying the active gene programmes in the cell. Rasmus’ group uses an integrated omics-approach involving both genomics and proteomics technologies to investigate the mechanisms through which these proteins work together to define cell function.