2024-2025 Seminars

September 25, 2024 (Wednesday)

Barry A. Morgan, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

HitGen Inc.

“Demystifying DEL: DNA encoded library technology is not (that) complicated!”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

October 17, 2024

Chong Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota School of Dentistry

Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, Division of Basic Sciences

“EBV Alters Genome Structure to Promote B Cell Transformation”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

November 21, 2024

Christina Camell, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota 

Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics

“GDF3 Regulates Macrophage Inflammation via Chromatin Remodeling During Aging”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 1-101 MRF (Microbiology Research  Facility) NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

December 19, 2024

Annual Student/Postdoc Flash Talk Competition 

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

January 16, 2025

Tamir Chandra, PhD

Senior Consultant

Mayo Clinic

“Beyond Clocks – What Drives Age-related Methylation Dynamics?”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 1-101 MRF (Microbiology Research  Facility) NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

February 20, 2025

Yinsheng Wang, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of California Riverside

“Roles of RNA Methylation in Histone Acetylation and Nucleotide Repeat Expansion Diseases”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

March 20, 2025

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD

President and CEO, Coriell Institute for Medical Research

Director, Camden Cancer Research Center

“Epigenetic Regulation by Cyclin Dependent Kinases”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

April 17, 2025

Christopher Schofield, FRS

Professor of Chemistry, 

Oxford University

“Roles of Oxygenases in Epigenetics- Attempting to Connect Biochemistry and Physiology”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]

May 15, 2025

Ian Maze, PhD

Director, Center for Neural Epigenome Engineering 

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Protein Monoaminylation in the Brain: Novel Mechanisms of Neural Development, Plasticity and Disease”

In person: 3:00 pm, Room 105, 717 Delaware Building

or Zoom: https://z.umn.edu/EpiCon24-25
[meeting ID: 976 1083 5559]