Cell Scientist to Watch-Ines Drinnenberg

ABSTRACT Ines Drinnenberg is a Team Leader in the nuclear dynamics unit at Institut Curie, France, where her research focuses on the evolution of centromeres and genome organization. After completing her undergraduate in Germany, Ines made the trans-Atlantic move to the US for her PhD at the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA, as well as a postdoc at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, where she worked on RNA interference and centormere evolution. In 2016, she returned to Europe to establish her own lab, where she studies chromatin evolution (‘EvoChromo’) in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). We caught up with Ines over Zoom to discuss her interesting career path, her approaches to running a lab and what it's like working with such a unique model.