Distinguished Lecture Series
2013-2014
September 19, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: James E. Bradner, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Title: “Chemical Modulation of Chromatin Structure”
November 14, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Karen Adelman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC
Title: “Pausing of RNA Polymerase II: A Window for Opportunities for Gene Regulation”
December 5, 10–11 a.m.
AT&T Auditorium, B2.4750
Speaker: James T. Kadonaga, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Title: “Punctilious Probing of Promoters and Prenucleosomes”
January 9, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Suzanne J. Baker, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Title: “Histone H3 Mutations in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma”
January 23, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Johnathan Whetstine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title: “Chromatin Modulators Provide a New Insight into Cancer Genomes”
February 6, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Craig Peterson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Title: “Chromatin Dynamics: Putting Histones in Their Place”
February 13, 10–11 a.m.
AT&T Auditorium, B2.4750
Speaker: Carl Wu, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD
Title: “ATP-dependent Chromatin Remodeling and the Dynamics of Histone Variant H2A.Z”
March 6, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Charles Roberts, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Title: “The SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex is Frequently Mutated in Cancer: Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutic Insights”
April 17, 10–11 a.m.
Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012
Speaker: Robert E. Kingston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title: “Regulation by Nucleosomes and Long Non-coding RNAs”