Webinars

Our webinars run on the last Friday of the month starting at 4pm Irish time during the academic year.

Sign up for a webinar by following the Zoom event link published on our X/Twitter feed 1-2 weeks before each talk.

Subscribe to the webinar listing in your Outlook, Google or other calendar app using the iCal link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/irelandchrom%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

Upcoming webinars

There are no upcoming events.

Past webinars

04/02/2022
  • Kristian Helin – Institute for Cancer Research, London

    Epigenetics and its role in transcriptional control, cell fate and cancer


25/02/2022
  • Rob Klose – University of Oxford

    Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression


25/03/2022
  • Dirk Schübeler – FMI and University of Basel

    Beyond motifs : guiding sites of transcription factor binding by DNA modifications


29/04/2022
  • Wendy Bickmore – University of Edinburgh

    Enhancers-promoter communication in the 3D genome: is close enough enough?


27/05/2022
  • Nada Jabado – McGill University

    Histone mutations in cancer and neurodegeneration


30/09/2022
  • Alvaro Rada-Iglesias – IBBTEC, Spain

    Genetic features controlling the specific expression of developmental genes


28/10/2022
  • Anja Groth – CPR, University of Copenhagen

    Chromatin replication and epigenome maintenance


27/01/2023
  • Joanna Wysocka – Stanford University

    Making faces: transcriptional enhancers in human development, evolution and disease


24/02/2023
  • Steven Henikoff – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre

    Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interaction dynamics


28/04/2023
  • Karolin Luger – University of Boulder, Colorado

    Nucleosomes for all – histone based chromatin organisation in non-eukaryotic organisms


03/11/2023
  • Richard Jenner – University College London

    Understanding the effects of RNA on PRC2 and other chromatin regulators


24/11/2023
  • Robin Allshire – Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and University of Edinburgh

    Epigenetic routes to antifungal and fungicide resistance


26/01/2024
  • Geneviève Almouzni – Institut Curie, Paris

    Histone variants and their partners shaping chromatin and cell fate


23/02/2024
  • Gonçalo Castelo-Branco – Karolinska Institutet

    Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and epigenomics of oligodendroglia in development and in multiple sclerosis


22/03/2024
  • Ali Shilatifard – Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago

    Transcription elongation control and chromatin in developmental gene expression, ageing and disease


31/05/2024
  • John Diffley – Francis Crick Institute, London

    Biochemical approaches to chromatin replication


27/09/2024
  • Maxim Greenberg – Institut Jacques Monod, Paris

    Chromatin dynamics in mammalian development


22/11/2024
  • Emma Farley – Postponed –

    Dependency grammar of developmental enhancers. POSTPONED.


12/12/2024
  • Luciano Di Croce – Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona

    Dissecting dynamics of chromatin functions in cell differentiation and cancer. Register for Zoom webinar


31/01/2025
  • Yael David – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Turning back the clock: targeting a new metabolism-epigenetic axis in T cells. Register for Zoom webinar


28/02/2025
  • Arnau Sebé-Pedrós – Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona

    The origin and early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture. Register for Zoom webinar


28/03/2025
  • Peter Lewis – University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Mechanisms of chromatin assembly, gene silencing, and epigenetic inheritance. Register for Zoom webinar


30/01/2026
13/02/2026
  • Edith Heard – Francis Crick Institute, London

    The epigenetic dynamics of X inactivation in development and disease Register for Zoom webinar


27/02/2026
  • Brian Strahl – UNC Chapel Hill

    Chromatin at the Crossroads of Gene Regulation and Genome Integrity. Register for Zoom webinar


27/03/2026
  • Karen Adelman – Harvard Medical School

    Transcription and RNA quality control in health and disease Register for Zoom webinar


24/04/2026
  • Karim-Jean Armache – NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York

    Chromatin-modifying complexes in gene activation and silencing
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