Roger Deal, Emory University

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday April 21, 2016 - Friday April 22, 2016
      11:00 am - 10:59 am
  • Location: Georgia Tech, EBB 1005
  • Phone: (404) 894-3700
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Summaries

Summary Sentence: Roger Deal, Emory University

Full Summary: AbstractThe establishment of cell type-specific transcription programs during development is brought about through the coordinated action of transcription factors, cis-regulatory DNA elements, and chromatin components including histone variants, chromatin remodeling enzymes, and post-translational modifications of the histones themselves. However, we are only beginning to understand how these factors act and interact to establish the transcriptional output of a genome. In this talk I will discuss my laboratory’s efforts to understand the role of the enigmatic histone variant H2A.Z as both a transcriptional activator and repressor during development in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. In addition, I will describe our recent advances in defining the networks of cis-regulatory elements and transcription factors that drive plant cell fate specification. Collectively, this work is bringing us closer to a mechanistic understanding how a single genome can be used to generate the multitude of diverse cellular phenotypes found in both plants and animals.

Gene regulatory mechanisms in plant development

Additional Information

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School of Biological Sciences

Invited Audience
Undergraduate students, Faculty/Staff, Public, Graduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
Roger Deal, School of Biology Seminar, Yuhong Fan
Status
  • Created By: Jasmine Martin
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Apr 13, 2016 - 7:23am
  • Last Updated: Apr 13, 2017 - 5:16pm