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"DNA on Repeat" - December 14 2022

Meeting on Repetitive Elements

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This is a reminder about our half-day meeting on genomic repeats on December 14 2022. There has been a change in the schedule, with Sara Macias from the University of Edinburgh now joining us.

Registration

Registration is free but required. Please go to our EventBrite page. The event will be only in person. We want to have plenty of discussions over coffee and other drinks.
 
Programme

  • 1.30pm - Alexandros Bousios (Univ. Sussex): "The invasion of the Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres by ATHILA retrotransposons"
  • 2.05pm - Beatrice Bodega (Univ. Milan): "Transposable elements dynamics regulate human T cell genome plasticity"
  • 2.40pm - Student talk
  • 3:00pm - Coffee Break
  • 3.30pm - Sara Macias (Univ. Edinburgh): "Investigating the role of ncRNAs and transposable elements in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome"
  • 3.35pm - Marco Trizzino (Imperial College): "Transposable elements at as key regulators of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration"
  • 4.10pm - Student talk
  • 5.00pm - Drinks and Posters 

Posters and student talks

We'd love to know about your research as well. Please send your abstract to epihub@qmulepigenetics.com and state whether you're a student. We will select two abstracts from students for talks. The remaining are invited to present their work in poster format.

Find us

  • Directions to get to QMUL's Whitechapel campus are here.
  • The meeting will be held in the Innovation Centre, which is building no. 5 on this map.

Questions?

 

 

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