ERC Starting Grant for Katharina Gapp
Dr. Katharina Gapp, junior group leader in Johannes Bohacek’s Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, is one of the recipients of an ERC starting grant.
This is the second prestigious success for Katharina Gapp within a short period of time. She received a SNF PRIMA Career development fellowship just last year. Congratulations on this great achievement!
Katharina Gapp's project
Certain environmental exposures can affect not only directly exposed individuals but also their children and grandchildren. This is known as epigenetic inheritance. Researchers have so far mainly investigated mechanisms that are related to chemical markers on the DNA and RNA molecules that are passed from sperm to egg during fertilization. In the now funded project, Katharina Gapp aims to investigate another theoretically possible epigenetic mechanism: stress receptor proteins that interact with DNA in sperm and influence the next generation. The ETH Zurich scientist aims to investigate and describe this mechanism in mice in detail. This could lead to a better understanding of the inheritance of stress-induced neuropsychiatric diseases and, in the longer term, to new therapeutic approaches.
More information about the ERC starting grant in the ETH News