Webinar: Transposable elements and epigenome evolution
Dr. Ting Wang, PhD - Inaugural Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
July 27, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Sponsored by: M-LEEaD Omics and Bioinformatics Core
Contact Information: Katie Zarins (kmrents@umich.edu)
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Registration is required to attend. Transposable elements (TE) make up about half of our genome, yet they are understudied due to their repetitive nature and are called “junk DNAâ€. However, they are an abundant and rich genetic resource of regulatory sequences. Modern genomics provided us an opportunity to interrogate their contribution to genome and epigenome evolution. I will discuss advances made over the last decade in recognizing TE’s role in innovating gene regulatory networks, and more recent surprising findings illustrating how TEs provide genetic redundancy in maintaining 3D genome architecture, and how TE’s deregulation accelerates cancer epigenome evolution.