Pittsburgh Chromatin Club Minisymposium

May 4, 2012

1:00-5:00 PM

West Wing Auditorium, Shadyside Hospital, 5230 Centre Ave (NOTE LOCATION)

Session 1

1:00     Dr. Tony Schwacha, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

            “The Mcm2-7 helicase couples DNA replication to checkpoint control and sister chromatid cohesion”

1:30     Shweta Nayak, Oesterreich Lab, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee Womens Research Institute

            “Epigenetic regulation of histone variants—role in endocrine resistant breast cancer?”

2:00     Dr. J. Richard Chaillet, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee Womens Research Institute

            “DNA demethylation in plants and animals”

2:30     Refreshment break

Session 2

3:00     Dr. Yoel Sadovsky, Department of OBGYN and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Womens Research Institute

            “Unprecedented functions of placental microRNAs”

3:30     Dr. Joe Martens, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

            “Identification of a new set of molecular tools to study transcription-dependent chromatin dynamics”

4:00     Dr. Vasily Studitsky, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University

            “Mechanisms and regulation of transcription in chromatin”

After the final talk we will adjourn to the Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield, for further discussions.

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Funding generously provided by Abcam and the University of Pittsburgh