RegenbergBirgitte University of CopenhagenDenmark

Birgitte Regenberg is Professor of genome evolution at Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Dr. Regenberg conducted her PhD studies in Genetics at the Carlsberg Laboratory and got her PhD from UCPH. After her PhD, she worked as assistant professor at the Technical University of Denmark at the Center for Process Biotechnology where she built the transcriptomic facility (2000-2004). She continued her research in systems biology as a FNU funded researcher at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main (2004-2007). Birgitte Regenberg returned to UCPH in a tenure-track position with a Skou Fellowship in 2007 and started her own laboratory. She has since had several stays at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, and at Dept. of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University as visiting Professor. Birgitte Regenberg’s research has focused on biofilm, genetics and genome evolution. Her group has recently pioneered studying extrachromosomal circular DNA with the groundbreaking discovery that all parts of eukaryotic genomes form extrachromosomal circular DNA, answering a long-standing question about what happens to deleted DNA. She has shown how extrachromosomal circular DNA (ecDNA and eccDNA) contributes substantially to expressed genetic variation with consequences for chromosome evolution and new aspects of cancer. Her group’s conceptual and technological expertise has given her a leading role in this upcoming field, which has been generously acknowledged by large grants and led to large interdisciplinary collaborations. She has co-authored over 80 research articles and most of her recent articles are in the leading journals in the field.