Marisa Bartolomei is the Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. She also is a faculty member within the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health and Co-Director of the Epigenetics Institute.
Her laboratory work focuses on the study of genomic imprinting in mice. This research is used to study how the environment, including procedures used in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) and endocrine disruptors, affect imprinting and epigenetic gene regulation.