Friday Lectures Friday, October 25, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Z. Jeffrey Chen, Ph.D. D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Texas Circadian and Epigenetic Regulation of Hybrid Vigor Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kirkbride, Ryan C.; Lu, Jie; Zhang, Changqing; et al. (2019). [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 11, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Adrian Bird Ph.D. Buchanan Professor of Genetics The University of Edinburgh The Genetics and Epigenetics of Rett Syndrome Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Cholewa-Waclaw, Justyna; Shah, Ruth; Webb, Shaun; et al. (2019). Quantitative modelling predicts the impact of DNA methylation on RNA polymerase II [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, December 8, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Department of Medicine, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School Targeting Reversible Lysine Acetylation with Designed Small Molecules Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Boija, Ann; Mahat, Dig Bijay; Zare, Aman; et al. (2017). CBP Regulates Recruitment and Release of [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 13, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Anja Groth, Ph.D. Professor and Group Leader Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) University of Copenhagen Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance Recommended Readings: Hammond, Colin M.; Stromme, Caroline B.; Huang, Hongda; et al. (2017). Histone chaperone networks shaping chromatin function. NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL [...]
Special Seminar Series Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Erika Pearce, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader and Director Department of Immunometabolism Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Mitochondrial Shapeshifting in the T Cell Response Recommended Readings: Erika Pearce. (2017). The Influence of Metabolism on the Function of T Cell Types. Latest Thinking. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 26, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D. Joseph Leidy Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Control Cell Fate Recommended Readings: Zaret, Kenneth S.; Lerner, Jonathan; Iwafuchi-Doi, Makiko (2016). Chromatin Scanning by Dynamic [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, April 21, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Edith Heard, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Epigenetics and Cellular Memory, Collège de France Director, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology Institut Curie The Epigenetic Dynamics of X-chromosome Inactivation: Fine-tuning Gene Dosage during Development Recommended Readings: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170417114752.htm da Rocha, Simao T.; Heard, Edith (2017). Novel [...]
