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Chromatin Club Bay Area ‐ Online Seminar Series

The Chromatin Club Bay Area was founded to foster a scientific community between Stanford, Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis. We organize monthly online seminars during which three scientists from our institutions present their work, and in person meetings each quarter to facilitate networking between researchers.

The scientific focus of the Chromatin Club Bay Area is broad and aims at bridging basic and translational epigenetic research.

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.

Upcoming Event Details

Date: May 25, 2023

Time: 12:00 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Bo He - Jiangbin Ye Lab, Stanford University
  Epigenetic Priming: The Way that Targets Tumor Heterogeneity to Promote Vitamin D Therapy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
• Grey Monroe - Assistant Professor, UC Davis
  Mechanisms, Origins, and Consequences of Epigenome-recruited DNA Repair Systems in Plants
• Coline Arnould - Nadav Ahituv Lab, UC San Francisco
  Impact of DNA Damage on 3D Chromatin Organization: Implication in Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Previous Event Details

Date: April 27, 2023

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Lea Kiefer - Daniele Canzio Lab, UC San Francisco
  Cohesin Dynamics Define Protocadherin Isoform Diversity Required for Brain Wiring

Special Guest Speaker:

• Sihem Cheloufi, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, UC Riverside

Date: October 27, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Bradley Colquitt, Assistant Professor MCD
  Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Birdsong Neural Circuit Development
• Albert Li - Jiangbin Ye Lab, Stanford University
  Metabolic and Epigenetic Reprogramming During Breast Cancer Progression

Date: September 22, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Scott Nanda - Ramani Lab, UC San Francisco
  Sensitive Multimodal Profiling of Native DNA by Transposase-mediated Single-molecule Sequencing.
• Ben Williams - Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
  Dynamic DNA Methylation Turnover in Exons is Associated With a Regulatory Chromatin State.
• Ashby Morrison - Associate Professor, Stanford University
  New Genome Stability Mechanisms of Oncogene-Induced Senescence.

Date: August 25, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Rachel Klein - Knoepfler Lab, UC Davis
  Mutant Histone H3.3 K27M Alters the Chromatin Landscape in Diffuse Midline Glioma
• Muryam Gourdet - Narlikar Lab, UC San Francisco
  A Hexasome is the Preferred Substrate for the INO80 Chromatin Remodeling Complex, Allowing Versatility of Function
• Ramendra Saha - Associate Professor, UC Merced
  Neuronal SWI/SNF (nBAF) Complex Aids Activity-induced Immediate Early Gene Transcription by Mediating RNA Polymerase II Elongation

Date: July 28, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Surag Nair - Kundaje Lab, Stanford University
  Decoding Fibroblast Reprogramming Through the Lens of Transcription Factor Stoichiometry and Motif Syntax at Single Cell Resolution
• Eric Martin - Forsberg Lab, UC Santa Cruz
  ATAC-ing the Epigenetic Roots of Lineage Fate Choice in Hematopoiesis
• Coral Zhou - Heald Lab, UC Berkeley
  Mechanisms of Mitotic Chromosome Scaling in Xenopus

Date: June 23, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Gerrald Lodewijk - Shariati Lab, UC Santa Cruz
  Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Network During Cell Cycle Re-entry From Quiescence
• Muryam Gourdet - Narlikar Lab, UC San Francisco
  A Hexasome is the Preferred Substrate for the INO80 Chromatin Remodeling Complex, Allowing Versatility of Function
• Conor Horton - Fordyce Lab, UC Berkeley and Stanford University
  Short Tandem Repeats Bind Transcription Factors to Tune Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Date: May 26, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Livia Ulicna - Van Rechem lab, Stanford University
  Chromatin remodelers lost in translation
• Antonio Gomez - LaSalle lab, UC Davis
  Placental methylome reveals a lncRNA-derived micropeptide associated with autism and chromatin
• Ali Palla - Fujimori lab, UC San Francisco
  Understanding Histone Demethylase KDM5A Beyond the Histone H3 Tail

Date: April 28, 2022

Time: 12:00 a.m. (PT) / 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Invited Speakers:

• Djem Kissiov, Ph.D. - Raulet lab, UC Berkeley
  Binary Outcomes of Enhancer Action Underlie Mitotically Stable Random Monoallelic Expression
• Sujin Lee, Ph.D. - Madhani lab, UC San Francisco
  Intrinsic Mesoscale Properties of a Polycomb Protein Underpin Heterochromatin Fidelity
• Amit Behera - Brooks lab, UC Santa Cruz
  Splicing Factor Mutation U2AF1 S34F Alters Chromatin State

Date: March 17^th, 2022

Time: 12:00 p.m. (PT) – 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Keynote Speaker: Alistair Boettiger, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Stanford University
Rethinking Polycomb Repression

Additional Speakers:

• Nicholas Altemose, D.Phil, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Researcher, Karpen lab, UC Berkeley
  Mapping Protein-DNA Interactions on Long, Single Chromatin Fibers
• Ryan Boileau, Graduate Researcher, Blelloch lab, UC San Francisco
  Decoupling of Transcriptional Activation from Enhancer Chromatin Dynamics During the Naïve to Formative Pluripotent Transition

Organizing Committee:

• Stanford: Capucine Van Rechem, Ashby Morrison, Serena Sanulli
• UC Berkeley: Gary Karpen, James Nuñez
• UCSF: Abby Buchwalter, Bassem Al-Sady
• UCSC: Karen Miga, Hinrich Boeger, Amit Behera
• UC Davis: Janine LaSalle, Paul Knoepfler