Abstract
ABSTRACT Mounia Lagha studied Biology at the Grande École AGRO-INA-PG in Paris (now AgroParisTech). She then pursued her PhD in the lab of Margaret Buckingham at the Institut Pasteur, where she worked on the regulation of myogenesis by the transcription factor Pax3. In 2010, she joined the lab of Michael Levine at UC Berkeley, USA for her postdoc; there, she discovered that minimal promoter sequences control RNA polymerase II pausing, which is essential for transcriptional synchrony and coordinated cell behaviour during gastrulation in the fly embryo. Mounia started her independent research group in 2015, funded by an ERC starting grant, at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier (IGMM), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Using live imaging approaches in Drosophila, her lab studies the coordination of transcription and transcriptional memory, and more recently the dynamics of translation. In 2021, Mounia was selected as an EMBO Young Investigator.
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