Daniel Zenklusen is professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Montreal (Canada). He is co-leading the project Structure and Function of the Human Ribonucleosome.
Zenklusen grew up in Simplon-Dorf, a small village in the Swiss Alps. He graduated with an MS in biology and microbiology from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and received a PhD from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). After postdoctoral studies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (USA), he started his lab at the University of Montreal in 2010. He was a research scholar of the Fonds de recherche du Québec from 2011 to 2023.
Zenklusen’s research program focuses on advancing our understanding of gene regulation by applying single-cell and single-molecule approaches to fundamental questions in RNA biology, with the goal of establishing the basis for a better understanding and treatment of complex diseases. His research has made important contributions to addressing how RNAs transit from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and how transcription programs are executed in individual cells. More recently, his laboratory has used super-resolution imaging approaches to study how RNPs are organized in cells and how their 3D organization changes along the different steps of the gene expression pathway.