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Charalampos Lazaris

Charalampos Lazaris

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Charalampos A. Lazaris completed his Masters in Molecular Biology-Biomedicine at the University of Crete in Greece. He then completed a Masters in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and earned his PhD in Computational and Systems Biomedicine from New York University. At the moment, he is a Bioinformatics Scientist (postdoctoral researcher) at the Young Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is also an Associated Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and he serves as a vice-chair of the NextGen Association for Postdocs and Graduate Students at Broad Institute. He has been trained both as a molecular and computational biologist and his research focuses on nuclear organization and transcriptional dysregulation in cancer with a special focus on hematologic malignancies.

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Mounting evidence suggests that there is an interplay between the three-dimensional (3D) genome structure, nuclear organization, and transcription. Recent studies show that the mammalian genome is highly and hierarchically organized in various levels ranging from A and B compartments to specific enhancer-promoter loops. Aberrations in the 3D genome structure have been implicated in various diseases, including developmental disorders and cancer. However, the role of 3D genome structure in gene regulation remains an open and hotly debated topic as a number of studies suggest a limited effect of chromatin structure alterations on gene expression. Over the last two decades, several research groups have focused on the development of methods to probe the 3D structure of the mammalian genome in an ever-increasing resolution. The original Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) method which was developed to probe physical chromatin interactions between two genomic loci, was later followed by Circularized Chromosome Conformation Capture (4C), Chromosome Conformation Capture Carbon Copy (5C), and genome-wide 3C variations, such as Hi-C. Hi-C 3.0 improves on the original Hi-C protocol, whereas Micro-C overcomes one of the major limitations of Hi-C, offering nucleosome-level resolution. The recently developed Hi-CO also offers nucleosome-level resolution. HiChIP focuses on chromatin interactions mediated by certain proteins. In addition to these methods, multiple imaging techniques have been developed to study genome architecture. Given that some of the aforementioned techniques are challenging, this collection aims to help the scientific community successfully use them and gain new insights into genome biology.

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Mapping Absolute DNA Density in Cell Nuclei using Single-molecule Localization Microscopy
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Mapping Absolute DNA Density in Cell Nuclei using Single-molecule Localization Microscopy

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2025

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Targeted chromosome conformation capture (HiCap)

Pelin Sahlén*1,

Artemy Zhigulev1

1Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Gene Technology, 171 65 Stockholm, Sweden