Remodeling and Repressing X Chromosomes via Molecular Machines

Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Barbara Meyer, Ph.D., professor of genetics, genomics and development, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Barbara J. Meyer is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of genetics, genomics, and development at the University of California, Berkeley. Meyer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, and she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Philosophical Society. Her Ph.D. research with Mark Ptashne at Harvard dissected the molecular basis for the lysis-lysogeny genetic switch in Bacteriophage l. Her postdoctoral research with Sydney Brenner at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, launched her studies of C. elegans sex determination and dosage compensation. Prior to her appointment at Berkeley, she was a tenured professor at M.I.T. Research in Meyer’s lab explores dynamic chromosome behaviors, including the epigenetic regulation of X-chromosome-wide repression through dosage compensation, X-chromosome counting to determine sex, and meiotic chromosome cohesion, condensation, and segregation.

Open to

Public

Host

Hironori Funabiki

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Justin Sloboda

Phone

(212) 327-7785

Sponsor

Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu