Dr. Anna Barcons Simon
Postdoc
Topic: Genome architecture, Antigenic variation, Cell-to-cell heterogeneity
Key methods: NGS-based methods to study the genome architecture and antigenic variation
Contact
Phone: +49 (0) 89 2180 71156
Email: anna.barcons@lmu.de
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Education
2019 PhD in Life Sciences Complexity
Sorbonne University, Paris
2014 MSc in Biomedical Research
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
2013 BSc in Biochemistry
University of Barcelona
Key publications
Schmidt MR, Barcons-Simon A, Rabuffo C, Siegel TN (2024)
Smoother: on-the-fly processing of interactome data using prefix sums
Nucleic Acids Research (doi:10.1093/nar/gkae008)
Barcons-Simon A, Carrington M, Siegel TN (2023)
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites
Nature Microbiology (doi:10.1038/s41564-023-01424-9)
Diffendall G, Barcons-Simon A, Baumgarten S, Dingli F, Loew D, Scherf A (2022)
Discovery of RUF6 ncRNA-interacting proteins involved in P. falciparum immune evasion
Life science alliance (doi:10.26508/lsa.202201577)
Barcons-Simon A, Cordon-Obras C, Guizetti J, Bryant JM, Scherf A (2020)
CRISPR interference of a clonally variant GC-rich noncoding RNA family leads to general repression of var genes in Plasmodium falciparum
mBio (doi:10.1128/mbio.03054-19)
Guizetti J, Barcons-Simon A, Scherf A (2016)
Trans-acting GC-rich non-coding RNA at var expression site modulates gene counting in malaria parasite
Nucleic Acids Research (doi:10.1093/nar/gkw664)