Adelaide Center for Epigenetics. Adelaide, Australia.

Jose Maria Polo is the Professor of Epigenetics at the University of Adelaide and Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. Jose graduated from Buenos Aires University as a Biochemist. In 2002, he started his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ari Melnick at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, working in lymphomagenesis and B-cell maturation. In 2008, he moved to the laboratory of Dr. Konrad Hochedlinger at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to work on reprogramming. In June 2011, Jose established his independent research group at Monash University to work on the mechanism underpinning reprogramming and cell fate in different biological paradigms. In 2016, he co-founded Mogrify to translate reprogramming technologies into clinical applications. In October 2021, Jose was recruited as the inaugural Director of the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics and Program leader of the recently established South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute.

Professor’s Polo work has shed light into the mechanism underpinning reprogramming, cell fate changes in ageing and disease as well as leading to the generation of diverse in vitro models to model human early embryogenesis. Professor Polo’s work has been published in the top journals in the field such as Nature, Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics and Cell Stem Cell and recognised with several awards including 2004 ASH merit Award, 2014 Metcalf Award, 2022 Presidential Medal of the ANZSCDB, the 2023 NHMRC Fiona Stanley Research Excellence Award and in 2024 he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science.

The host of this seminar is Ari Melnick. 

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