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Past Events

Category Seminar
Date and Time 2015-11-30 14:30 - 15:30
Venue Auditorium C1F
Speaker Azusa Inoue
Affiliation Yi Zhang's Lab, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Title Genome-wide remodeling of sperm epigenome upon fertilization
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Host Tomoya Kitajima
Summary In the life cycle of mammals, there is no other stage than fertilization where chromatin is genome-widely assembled de novo from the beginning. Fertilization therefore provides an excellent model for studying epigenetic reprogramming and chromatin function. I would like to talk about how chromatin remodeling of sperm epigenome proceeds in mouse preimplantation embryos. The topics I will talk include;

1). Mechanism of DNA demethylation
2). An unprecedented role of nucleosomes in nuclear pore complex assembly revealed by generation of histone-free nuclei
3). Genome-wide mapping of accessible chromatin in preimplantation embryos
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