Axelle Loriot
Axelle Loriot
Department of Genetics and Epigenetics, de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Biography
Dr Axelle Loriot is a senior researcher at the de Duve Institute. Since 2001, she has been part of the epigenetics group led by Charles De Smet. She joined the CBIO group in 2018, focusing on transcriptomics and epigenetics. She developed algorithms to identify aberrant transcripts induced by DNA hypomethylation in tumour cells, and DNA hypermethylation events linked to overlapping expression.