Archived Events

Archived Meetings

June 13, 2013 - 9-146AB Smilow Center - Epigenetics Meeting

• Emily Bernstein, Ph.D. - Mount Sinai Hospital
  • "Histone variants in development and disease"
• Niraj Lodhi, Ph.D. - Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • "PARP1 marks mitotic chromatin and regulates post-mitotic transcription"

May 9, 2013 - 9-146AB Smilow Center - Epigenetics Meeting

• Christopher Pierce, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • "Forgiving the sins of the fathers: Epigenetic inheritance of a cocaine resistance phenotype"
• Makiko Doi, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • "Pioneer transcription factor FoxA is positioned on hypersensitive nucleosomes at active enhancers"

April 18, 2013 - 9-146AB Epigenetics Distinguished Lecturer Series

• Tony Kouzarides, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
  • "Epigenetic Pathways in transcription and cancer"
  
  April 11, 2013 - 9-146AB Smilow Center - Epigenetics Meeting

• Ken-ichi Noma, Ph.D. (The Wistar Institute)
  • "Mechanism and function of three dimensional genome organization"
• Barry Zee, Ph.D., (Garcia Lab at UPenn)
  • "Histone, Interrupted: When and how histones (re) acquire their modifications"

    March 14, 2013 - 9-146AB Smilow Center - Epigenetics Meeting

• Andrew Andrews, Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • "A mechanistic understanding of specificity and selectivity of histone acetylation"
• Karyn Sheaffer, Ph.D., (Kaestner Lab at UPenn)
  • "The epigenetics of self-renewal in the intestine"

Epigenetics of Cellular Memory Symposium
February 5, 2013
Smilow Center Auditorium and Lobby.
Please see the "Symposium" tab on the left for more information.
Schedule available here.
Email JVicario@mail.med.upenn.edu to register

January 10, 2013 - 9-146AB Smilow Center

• Sean Taverna, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
  • "Heterochromatin and meiotic histone modifications"

December 13, 2012 - 9-146AB Smilow Center

• Karen Reddy, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
  • "Nuclear Structure: Caught in a LAD Romance"

November 8, 2012 - TRC Auditorium

• Steve McMahon, Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University
  • "Role of the SAGA/SIRT partner USP22 in stem cells an cancer"
• Tobias Raabe, Ph.D., Dept. of Genetics at UPenn
  • "A new TALE of genome editing"

October 11, 2012 - TRC 12-146

• Ralph Meyer, Ph.D., UPenn Veterinary School
  • "Epigenetic Control of early embryo gene expression by sperm histone retention"
• Miin-Feng Wu, Ph.D., Wagner lab at UPenn
  • "A possible role for chromatin remodeling ATPases in reversal of polycomb repression"

September 20, 2012 - 251 BRB

• Rugang Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The Wistar Institute
  • "Oncogene-induced BRCA1 chromatin dissociation: a double-edged sword in cancer development."
• Chris Nabel, MD/PhD Student in MVP/CAMB Graduate Group
  • "AID/APOBEC deaminases disfavor modified cytosines implicated in DNA demethylation

June 14th, 2012, 4pm, TRC Building Room 11th floor, Rm. 146A

• Jason Kennerdell, Ph.D.
  • "Epigenetic regulation affects neurodegeneration and aging"
• Alexei Tulin, Ph.D.
  • "Reciprocal co-regulation of PARP-1 and nucleosomes"

May 10th, 2012, 4pm, TRC 11th floor, room 146A

• Brittany Gregory, Ph.D.
  • "Polymorphic regulation of Human Gene Expression by the Histone Demethylase KDM4"
• Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D.
  • “Non-coding RNAs and chromatin architecture”

April 12th, 2012, 4pm at BRB Auditorium

• Sheila Keerthy, Ph.D.
  • "An epigenetic role for Tip 60 in APP mediated axonal outgrowth of clock neurons that control sleep"

March 8th, 2012, 4pm at TRC Auditorium

• Zissimous Mourelatos, Ph.D.
  • “piRNAs and piRNPs: the good shepherds of the germline”
• Levi Rupp, Ph.D.
  • "Dicer-dependent epigenetic silencing of CD4/CD8 during fate commitment of a aB Tcells"

February 9th, 2012, 4pm at TRC 11-146 AB

• Thomas Kusch, Ph.D.
  • “Parallel histone codes in transcription and DNA repair”
• Wulan Dang, Ph.D.
  • "Manipulating long-range chromosomal interactions at a native
    Locus by targeted tethering of a 'looping' factor"

December 13, 2011

• John Murray, Ph.D.
  • "Genetic and epigenetic control of spatiotemporal identity in the early C. elegans embryo"
• Folami Ideraabdullah, Ph.D.
  • "Resolving the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of ICR-mediated imprinting at H19/Igf2

November 8, 2011 - Room JMB Reunion Auditorium

• John Wherry, Ph.D.
  • "Transcriptional regulation of T cell differentiation"
• Jie Xu, Ph.D.
  • " Transcriptional pausing orchestrates a rapid anti-viral innate
    immune response "

October 24, 2011 - TRC Auditorium

• Epigenetics and Cancer Symposium October 24, 2011

The Epigenetics Program,
The Abramson Family Cancer Institute and
The Department of Cancer Biology

These departments hosted a Symposium on October 24, 2011 in the TRC Auditorium
beginning at 9:00am and ending with a reception at 5:00pm

Speakers:
Stephen Baylin, Ph.D., John Hopkins
Laurie Boyer, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chi Dang, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ari Melnick, Ph.D., Cornell University
Anjana Rao, Ph.D., Harvard University
Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D., The Wistar Institute
Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., The Stowers Institute
Kathryn Wellen, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

September 6, 2011 - Room CRB Austrian Auditorium

• Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.
  • "Transcription Factors as Epigenetic Effectors in Mitosis"
• Weiwei Dang, Ph.D.
  • " Yeast Aging Proteome Unveils a Novel Aging Regulation Pathway Mediated by the Chromatin Remodeling Complex ISW2"

June 8, 2011 - Room JMB Reunion Auditorium

• Mitch Lazar, M.D.
  • "Epigenomic Control of Circadian Rhythm & Metabolism"
• Nikolina Sekulic, Ph.D.
  • "The Structure of (CENP-A/H4)2 reveals physical features that mark centromeres"

May 19, 2011 - Room CRB Austrian Auditorium

• Arjun Raj, Ph.D.
  • "FISHing for worm guts: a single molecule view of cell fate"
• Stephan Kadauke, Ph.D.
  • "A Potential Epigenetic Bookmarking Function for the Hematopoietic Transcription Factor GATA-1"

May 2, 2011 - Epigenetics and Aging Symposium

Schedule of the event can be found here.

April 14, 2011 - Room JMB Reunion Auditorium

• Peter Klein, M.D., Ph.D.
  • "Wnt signaling through chromatin in development"
• Ganesh Shankarling, Ph.D.
  • "Analysis of the structure-function relationship and molecular interactions of the hnRNP L splicing regulator"

March 10, 2011 - Room JMB Class of 62 Auditorium

• Nora Engel, Ph.D.
  • "The battle of the signals: long non-coding RNAs versus enhancers in the transcriptional regulation of the Kcnq1 imprinted region"
• Jessica Sarthi, Ph.D.
  • "Implications for epigenetics in learning and memory"

February 10, 2011 - Room JMB Class of 62 Auditorium

• Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D.
  • "Structure of the Rtt109-AcCoA/Vps75 Complex and Implications for Chaperone-Mediated Histone Acetylation"
• Matthew Schiewer, Ph.D.
  • "Impact of PARP1 on AR signaling and therapeutic response in prostate cancer"

January 13, 2011 - Room JMB Class of 62 Auditorium

• Doris Wagner, Ph.D.
  • "Chromatin remodeling in inducible gene expression"
• Matt LeBoeuf, Ph.D.
  • "Hdac1 and Hdac2 act redundantly to control p63 and p53 functions in epidermal progenitor cells"

December 9, 2010 - Room JMB Class of 62 Auditorium

• Edward Morrisey, Ph.D.
  • "miRNAs, HDACs, and reprogramming"
• Joe Swift, Ph.D.
  • "Investigating the modulation of lamin isoform ratios during stem cell differentiation"

November 11, 2010 - Room BRB Auditorium
BRB Auditorium

• Steve Reiner, Ph.D. (Penn SOM - Infectious Diseases)
  • "Parsing Epigenetic information during cellular diversification and self-renewal "
• Sharmistha Pal, Ph.D. (The Wistar Institute - Davuluri Lab)
  • "Alternative transcription driven by H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 expand the transcriptome during cerebellum development"
• Lindsay McKenna, Ph.D. (Penn SOM - Kaestner Lab)
  • "Islet microRNAs in the pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus"

October 13, 2010 - Room BRB Auditorium
Epigenetics and IRM Symposium
Room:  BRB Auditorium

Thursday, September 16, 2010
Stanley Dunlop Auditorium in Stemmler Hall

• Roger Gregory, Ph.D. (Cancer Biology)
  • "Roles of ubiquitin on chromatin surrounding DNA double strand breaks "
• Alexei Tulin, Ph.D. (Fox Chase Cancer Center,)
  • "Core histone variant H2Av controls PARP1 activation in chromatinr"
• Davind Bungard, Ph.D. (Berger Lab)
  • "Signaling Kinase AMPK activates stress-promoted transcription via histone H2B phosphorylation"

Thursday, June 10, 2010
(BRB II/III 251)

• Nahid Turan, Ph.D. (Temple University)
  • "Inter-and intra-individual variation in allele-specific DNA methylation and gene    expression in children conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technology"
• Steven McMahon, Ph.D. (Kimmel Cancer Center,)
  • "Potential roles for the USP family of epigenetic regulators in ESC function and cancer"
• Brian D. Gregory, Ph.D. (Lynch Laboratory, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute)
  • "Using high-throughput sequencing to study RNA silencing eukaryotes"

Thursday, May 13, 2010
(BRB II/III 251)

• Ted Abel, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
  • "Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Storage"
• Greg Dunn (Bale Lab)
  • "Maternal High Fat Diet in Mice Epigenetically Programs Offspring Body Length Across Two Generations"
• Keerthy Nia, (Elefant Lab)
  • "dTip60 HAT function plays an active role in axonal outgrowth during Drosophila development"

Thursday, April 8, 2010
(BRB II/III 251)

• Alex Mazo, Ph.D. (Thomas Jefferson University)
  • "Ecdysone- and NO-mediated transcriptional regulation by competing nuclear receptors"
• Xuan Pan, Ph.D. (Atchison Lab)
  • "YY1 PcG functions in B lymphocytes development"

Thursday, March 11, 2010
(BRB II/III 252)

• Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D. (Department of Cell and Developmental Biology)
  • " Regulation of Genomic Imprinting"
• Chinmay Trivedi, M.D.,  Ph.D. (John Epstein Lab)
  • "Hdac2 and Hopx: Regulators of Cardiac Development"
• Li Zhao (Doug Epstein Lab)
  • "Regulating Sonic hedgehog forebrain expression by remote control"

Thursday, February 11, 2010 (postpone to June )
(BRB II/III 252)

• Steven McMahon, Ph.D. (Jefferson University)
  • "The hSAGA Subunit USP22: the Polycomb/ Stem Cell Connection"
• Marina Kozak (Johnson Lab, University of Pennsylvania)
  • "Delayed Senescence via Deletion of SAS2
• Nahid Turan (Sapienza Lab, Temple University)
  • "Inter- and Intra-individual Variation in DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Children Conceived Usning Assited Reproductive Technology"

Thursday, January 14, 2010 (BRB II/III 251)

• John Pehrson (School of Veterinary Medicine)
• "Genome-Wide Distribution of MacroH2A1 Histone Variants"
• Dave Steger (Lazar Lab)
• "Propagation of Adipogenic Signals through an Epigenomic Transition State"
• Italo Tempera (Lieberman Lab)
  • "Chromatin Boundaries and Control of Epstein-Barr Virus Latency Type"

November 19, 2009 (BRB II/III 251)

• Hua-Ying Fan
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • “Mechanism of epigenetic regulation”
• Niraj Shanbhag
  • SOM-Cancer Biology Program
  • “An ATM-dependent transcriptional silencing program is transmitted through chromatin modifications in Cis to DNA double strand breaks”
• Brenna Brady
  • SOM-Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • “Regulation of the TCRβ locus post recombination”

Archived Seminars

Biology

• Ollie Rando (11/19/09)
  • University of Massachusetts Med
  • “Static and dynamic genome-wide views of yeast chromatin”
  • 4:00 p.m., 109 Leidy Lab

Cell and Developmental Biology

   Margaret (Minx) Fuller, Ph.D. (4/28/10)

• Stanford School of Medicine
• Time TBD, BRB II/III Auditorium

Center for Cancer Pharmacology

• Eric Brown (11/4/09)
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • “The role of ATR in maintaining genome Integrity and preventing aging”
  • 12:00, Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building

CHOP

Tso-Pang (2/3/10)

• Duke University Medical Center
• “Connecting neural activity to transcriptional reprogramming: unusual journey of an HDAC”
• 12:00, ARC 123 A/B

• Paul Brindle (11/4/09)
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • “What‘s up with histone acetylation and transcription in mammals?”
  • 12:00, ARC 123 A/B

CRRWH

• Dale Dorsett, Ph.D. (4/21/10)
  • Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  • 12:00, 253 BRB II/III

Fox Chase Cancer Center

• John T. Lis, Ph.D. (5/27/10)
  • Cornell University
  • “New Views of Local and Genome-wide Transcription Regulation in Vivo”
  • 12:15 p.m., Reimann Auditorium

Genetics

• John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, M.D. (2/1/10)
  • University of Washington
  • 12:15 p.m., BRB II/III Auditorium
• Robert E. Kingston, Ph.D. (3/8/10)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • 12:15 p.m., BRB II/III Auditorium
• Richard H. Goodman, M.D., Ph.D. (5/3/10)
  • Oregon Health & Science University
  • 12:15 p.m., BRB II/III Auditorium