Alberto Kornblihtt is Emeritus Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and Investigator of the National Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, EMBO, the French Academy of Sciencies, and other Latin American academies. He obtaied his PhD in Argentina and did a postdoc at the Dunn School of Pathology of Oxford with Tito Baralle in the early 80s. His work focuses on the coupling of RNA polymerase II transcription with alternative splicing and how this mechanism is regulated by chromatin changes. Webpage: ark.fbmc.fcen.uba.ar/home_eng.php