Upcoming event

First Annual New York City Chromatin Club Symposium! 

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July 12, 2024
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

 

Previous events

October 19, 2021 5-6PM EST

Nicholas Prescott (Yael David Lab, MSKCC) 
"Chromatin assembly facilitates transcription of the Hepatitis B Virus oncogene HBx"

Ana Morao ( Sevinc Ercan Lab, NYU)
“Topoisomerase I and II facilitate condensin DC translocation at different scales to repress transcription”
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May 11, 2021 5-6PM EST

Sanxiong Liu (Reinberg Lab, HHMI, NYU Langone Medical Center) 
"NRF1 directed AUTS2-PRC1.3 for gene activation and brain development"

Sean Healton (Skoultchi Lab, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
“H1 Linker Histones Regulate the Epigenetic Landscape Via Local Differences in H1 Stoichiometry and Chromatin Compaction”


April 13, 2021 5-6PM EST

Yuxuan Liu (Amengual lab, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center) 
"Development of First-In-Class Histone Acetyltransferase (HAT) Activators for Precision Targeting of Epigenetic Derangements in Lymphoma"

Pavan Choppakatla (Funabiki Lab, The Rockefeller University)
“H1 Tunes Condensin Mediated Mitotic Chromosome Compaction”

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March 9, 2021 5-6PM EST

Carmit Bar (Ezhkova lab, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine) 
"Polycomb complexes redundantly maintain epidermal stem cell identity during development"

Aliaksandra Radzisheuskaya (Helin lab, MSKCC)
“Complex-dependent histone acetyltransferase activity of KAT8 determines its role in transcription and cellular homeostasis”

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February 9, 2021 NYU Langone

Priscillia Lhoumaud (lab of Jane Skok, NYU Langone) 
“The impact of cancer associated CTCF mutations on chromatin architecture and gene regulation”

Chantal Harris (lab of Bjorn Kafsack, Weill Cornell)
“Epigenetic regulation of sexual differentiation in malaria parasites”

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Jan 12, 2021 - Weill Cornell Medical College

Bobbie Pelham-Webb (Lab of Effie Apostolou, Weill-Cornell)
“The molecular resetting of pluripotent stem cell identity upon mitotic exit”


Yasuhiro Arimura (Lab of Hiro Funabiki, Rockefeller University)
“Nucleosome structural variations in interphase and metaphase chromosomes”

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December 1, 2020 - Columbia University

Franziska Geis - Steve Goff’s Lab
“Unintegrated HIV-1 DNAs are loaded with core, H3.3 variant, and H1 linker histones and transcriptionally silenced early in infection”
 
Kehan Bao - Songtao Jia’s Lab
"The cAMP-signaling pathway regulates heterochromatin in fission yeast"

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November 4, 2020 - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
12PM EST

Michael-Christopher Keogh, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Epicypher, Inc
“Nucleosomes dictate the histone code”

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October 20^th, 2020 - Mt. Sinai Chromatin Club
5PM
 
Maxim Maron – Shechter Lab (Einstein)
“Type I PRMTs and PRMT5 Independently Regulate Both Sm Arginine Methylation and Post Transcriptional Splicing”

Nevin Yusufova – Melnick Lab (Weill Cornell)
“Histone H1 mutations drive lymphomagenesis through disruption of 3D chromatin architecture and induction of primitive stem cell functions”