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From: Hasan Khatib <hkhatibwisc.edu>
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Subject: Fwd: Register Now: Unraveling the Secrets of the Epigenome
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:21:00 -0500

In the past I joined some of these Webinars and found them very useful.
Best Hasan
 

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.Subject: 	Register Now: Unraveling the Secrets of the Epigenome 
.Date: 	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:22:30 -0400 
.From: 	The Scientist Magazine  
Reply-To: 	thescientistthe-scientist.com 
.To: 	hkhatibwisc.edu 

The Scientist Webinars
 
    Unraveling the Secrets of the Epigenome 

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FREE Webinar — Thursday April 18, 2013 2:30-4:00 p.m. Eastern Time
*Click here to register now!*  
 
While the human genome continues to intrigue researchers with the  
complexities embedded in the entirety of its DNA sequence, what’s on DNA  
and how it's packaged are increasingly important for understanding  
disease, including cancer. This second webinar in /The Scientist/'s  
Decoding DNA series will cover the *Secrets of the Epigenome*,  
discussing what is currently known about DNA methylation, histone  
modifications, and chromatin remodeling and how this knowledge can  
translate to useful therapies. Following brief presentations by our  
panel of experts, there will be a live Q&A session during which  
attendees can ask questions and discuss issues related to the burgeoning  
field of epigenetics. 

*DNA Methylation Abnormalities in Cancer: Biological and Translational  
Implications* 

/Stephen Baylin is a professor of medicine and of oncology at the Johns  
Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is also Chief of the  
Cancer Biology Division of the Oncology Center and Associate Director  
for Research of The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Together  
with Peter Jones, Baylin also leads the Epigenetic Therapy Stand up to  
Cancer Team (SU2C). He and his colleagues have fostered the concept that  
DNA hypermethylation of gene promoters, with its associated  
transcriptional silencing, can serve as alternatives to mutations for  
producing loss of tumor-suppressor gene function. Baylin earned both his  
BS and MD degrees from Duke University, where he completed his  
internship and first-year residency in internal medicine. He then spent  
2 years at the National Heart and Lung Institute of the National  
Institutes of Health. In 1971, he joined the departments of Oncology and  
Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, an  
affiliation that still continues. / 

*Targeting Chromatin-Modifying Enzymes in Cancer Therapy* 

/Victoria Richon heads the Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development  
Global Oncology Division at Sanofi. Richon joined Sanofi in November  
2012 from Epizyme, where she was Vice President of Biological Sciences  
since 2008. There she was responsible for the strategy and execution of  
drug discovery and development efforts that ranged from target  
identification through candidate selection and clinical development,  
including biomarker strategy and execution. Richon received her BA in  
chemistry from the University of Vermont and her PhD in biochemistry  
from the University of Nebraska. She completed her postdoctoral research  
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center./ 

*When Metabolism and Epigenetics Converge* 

/Paolo Sassone-Corsi is Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chemistry  
and Director of the Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism at the  
University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Sassone-Corsi is a  
molecular and cell biologist who has pioneered the links between  
cell-signaling pathways and the control of gene expression. His research  
on transcriptional regulation has elucidated a remarkable variety of  
molecular mechanisms relevant to the fields of endocrinology,  
neuroscience, metabolism, and cancer. He received his PhD from the  
University of Naples and completed his postdoctoral research at CNRS,  
Strasbourg, France./ 

*Click here to register now!*  

 
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