Dr José Miguel Alvão Serra Medeiros Constância

Dr Constância is passionate about Epigenetics, a really fast moving field that has an important role in biology and which we are only now starting to unravel. He did his doctoral studies on developmental epigenetics at Cambridge, discovering novel mechanisms of epigenetic regulation at imprinted genes. After a short-postdoctoral period, he was awarded a BBSRC Fellowship and joined the University of Cambridge, as a lecturer, with research and teaching focused on epigenetics. He works on gene-environmental interactions, intra-uterine epigenetic programming of adult disease, and regulation of growth and metabolism, using epigenetic technology and biological model systems to address research questions.