Institute of Cancer Research / University of Southampton
Dr Zoë Walters was appointed Lecturer in Translational Epigenomics within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton in 2017. Zoë’s research team at Southampton focuses on aberrant epigenetic mechanisms that contribute to the pathogenesis of diseases including cancer. Zoë is also part of the Senior Management Team and is Co-Lead for the Genomics Guided Treatment and Dissertation modules for the MSc in Genomics.
Zoë gained a BSc in Molecular Genetics at the University of Sussex where she also obtained her PhD working on signal transduction mechanisms in the formation of the wing and leg structures in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
From there she went to Cardiff University where she undertook research using the model organism Xenopus to uncover novel genes involved in Wnt signalling that might provide insights into tumorigenesis. Here she discovered a solute carrier involved in embryonic patterning in the frog that is linked to Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signalling. In 2008, Zoë joined Prof. Janet Shipley’s team at the Institute of Cancer Research where she investigated novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of RMS.
Qualifications
PhD, Developmental Genetics, University of Sussex (2006)
BSc (Hons), Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology, University of Sussex (2002)
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