He is Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

in Heidelberg and working on the origin and function of genomic variation. His

group takes part in the 1000 Genomes Project and participates in the International

Cancer Genome Consortium. In this context Jan Korbel’s group identified

catastrophic DNA rearrangements called chromothripsis in the development of

cancer (Cell. 2012 Jan 20;148(1-2):59-71). Another major recent

contribution of his group was the mapping of copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing (Nature. 2011 Feb 3;470(7332):59-65).

For further

information, please take a look at the following links:

http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/korbel/index.html

http://www.korbel.embl.de/