Laboratory of Genome Architecture
&
DNA topology
The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD),
Hyderabad, India.

Dr. Yathish J. Achar
Head, Laboratory of Genome Architecture

Ph.D.: University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
Post Doc: IFOM Foundazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Moleculare, Milan, Italy
Yathish J Achar obtained his PhD from University of Szeged, Hungary, in the field of Biological sciences. As a graduate student he was involved in developing an in vitro system to study fork regression activities of several tumour suppressors including HLTF, BLM, WRN, SMARCAL1 and ZRANB3. Later, he moved to Marco Foiani laboratory in IFOM (Foundazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Moleculare), Milan, Italy, as a post-doctoral fellow. In IFOM he was involved in mapping DNA supercoil changes and its influence on chromatin organization using genomic approaches. He joined CDFD as a group leader in 2021.
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Open Positions
June 2025 update
We are looking for highly motivated PhD students to join our lab! If you're interested in chromatin biology and genome regulation, feel free to reach out—informal enquiries by email or in person are always welcome.
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