Event Detail (Archived)
Remodeling and Repressing X Chromosomes via Molecular Machines
The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture
Event Details
- Type
- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Barbara Meyer, Ph.D., professor of genetics, genomics and development, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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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
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Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu