Elena Stoyanova

Elena is a Platform Engineer in the Innovations group at Touchlight Genetics, where she is working on developing and testing new technologies, with a focus on a novel homology-directed repair (HDR) template 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 in Genetics from the University of York, UK.