Constantinos Chronis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. He joined UIC in 2019, and he has a long-standing interest in deciphering how transcription factors (TFs) shape the epigenetic, transcriptomic, metabolic, and nuclear landscape during cell fate conversions. His lab explores the molecular and biophysical mechanisms by which pioneer transcription factors reprogram gene regulatory networks during early embryonic, endothelial, and hematopoietic stem cell fate transitions. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of trainees in his lab, and to foster interdisciplinary exchange, he initiated and co-directs a bi-weekly Bioinformatics Seminar series for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty affiliated with the Biochemistry and Bioengineering departments at UIC. As part of a collaborative project that was directly established from this effort, he received an INCITE Leadership Computing Award from Argonne Laboratories to establish groundbreaking new analytical assays related to chromatin folding. He also established the Epigenetics and Transcriptomics Core for a multi-PI Project Program Grant as a Core group leader. Their purview is to develop and disseminate novel genomic assays, producing, and analyzing large-scale datasets and making them widely available within the lung biology consortium and the wider scientific community.
Constantinos Chronis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine
Research Program
Cancer Biology (CB)
Phone: 312-355-8012
Email: [email protected]
