Special Lecture
Monday, October 12th, 2015
4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Denes Hnisz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms Defining Cell Identity
Recommended Readings
Dowen, J. M., Fan, Z. P., Hnisz, D., Ren, G., Abraham, B. J., Zhang, L. N., … & Young, R. A. (2014). Control of cell identity genes occurs in insulated neighborhoods in mammalian chromosomes. Cell, 159(2), 374-387. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.030.
Hnisz, D., Abraham, B. J., Lee, T. I., Lau, A., Saint-André, V., Sigova, A. A., … & Young, R. A. (2013). Super-enhancers in the control of cell identity and disease. Cell, 155(4), 934-947. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.09.053.
Hnisz, D., Schuijers, J., Lin, C. Y., Weintraub, A. S., Abraham, B. J., Lee, T. I., … & Young, R. A. (2015). Convergence of developmental and oncogenic signaling pathways at transcriptional super-enhancers. Molecular Cell, 58(2), 362-370. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2015.02.014.
Whyte, W. A., Orlando, D. A., Hnisz, D., Abraham, B. J., Lin, C. Y., Kagey, M. H., … & Young, R. A. (2013). Master transcription factors and mediator establish super-enhancers at key cell identity genes. Cell, 153(2), 307-319. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.03.035.
