The Rockefeller University » Histone and Nucleic Acid Methylation: Mechanisms and Link to Human Disease

Event Details

Type: Molecular Biology Seminars
Speaker(s): Yang Shi, Ph.D., Merton Bernfield Professor of Neonatology, division of newborn medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; professor, department of cell biology, Harvard Medical School
Open to: Public
Host: Dr. John Petrini
Reception: Tea, 11:45 a.m.
Contact: Julie Kwan
Phone: (646) 888-3710
Sponsor: Rianna Dyal
(646) 888-3713
dyalr@mskcc.org

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