When:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
Where: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, Simpson Querrey Auditorium, 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Beverly A Kirk
(312) 503-5217
Group: Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics Distinguished Lectureship
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics presents:
Danny Reinberg, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York
"Polycomb, Inheritance, and Disease"
Epigenetics encompasses changes in gene expression profiles that occur without alterations in the genomic DNA sequence of a cell. This arises from the dynamic processes that structure regions of chromosomal DNA through a range of compaction in eukaryotes. The altered pattern of gene expression is pivotal to cellular differentiation and development and is inherited by daughter cells thereby maintaining the integrity, specifications, and functions for a given cell type. Aberrancies in this epigenetic process give rise to perturbations that are also inherited and disruptive to normal cellular properties.