Spring 2015

February 3

Topic: Chromatin signature of monoallelic expression in development and disease

Alexander Gimelbrant, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

February 23

Epigenetic inheritance from yeast to mouse to human

Oliver Rando, MD, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Student lunch to be held in L-307

March 3

Single-gene defects elucidate mechanisms of chronic kidney disease

Friedhelm Hildebrandt, MD

Chief, Division of Nephrology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, HHMI

April 7

Targeted Genome and Epigenome Editing Using Engineered CRISPR and TALE Technologies

Keith Joung, MD, Ph.D.

To be held in L-110
Student Lunch to be held at 12:30pm in L-202

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Pathologist and Associate Chief of Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathology

April 21

Topic: Experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to better understand the biology and evolution of genomes.

Joshua Akey, Ph.D.

To be held in L-110

Associate Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington

 May 19

Topic: Clinical applications of cancer genomics, human genetics and sequencing technology

Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D.

To be held in L-311

Co-Director, The Genome Institute at Washington University
Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine