Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, December 6, 2024
Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D.
Richard J. Cohen (1976) Professor in Medicine and Biomedical Physics, and Physics, MIT; Associate Member, Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT
Chromosomes as Communication and Memory Machines
Recommended Readings:
Dekker, Job, and Leonid A. Mirny. “The chromosome folding problem and how cells solve it.” Cell 187.23 (2024): 6424-6450.
Mirny, Leonid A. “Chromosome and protein folding: In search for unified principles.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology 81 (2023): 102610.
Mirny, Leonid, and Job Dekker. “Mechanisms of chromosome folding and nuclear organization: their interplay and open questions.” Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 14.7 (2022): a040147.
Mirny, Leonid A., Maxim Imakaev, and Nezar Abdennur. “Two major mechanisms of chromosome organization.” Current opinion in cell biology 58 (2019): 142-152.
Dekker, Job, and Leonid Mirny. “The 3D genome as moderator of chromosomal communication.” Cell 164.6 (2016): 1110-1121.