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Event Details

Type

Special Seminar Series

Speaker(s)

Elphege Nora, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UCSF, Molecular mechanisms of chromosome folding and enhancer wiring

Speaker bio(s)

Elphège obtained his Ph.D. in molecular genetics after doing research on X-chromosome inactivation in the laboratory of Pr. Edith Heard at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. He then moved to San Francisco for a postdoc with Pr. Benoit Bruneau at the Gladstone Institute, where he applied genome engineering to study the functions of proteins involved in chromosome organization and transcriptional regulation in embryonic stem cells. Since 2019 he leads a research group in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California in San Francisco.

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Campus and Guests