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Richard White

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Past Webinars

2026

12.06.2026 - Madzia Crossley 'Distinct mechanisms generate immunogenic cytoplasmic RNA-DNA hybrids as signals of transcriptional dysregulation'

2025

27.11.25-Maximilian Fitz-James 'Fly Eyes and Locust Swarms: Epigenetic Inheritance in Insect Adaptation.’

07.11.25- Roser Vento-Tormo 'Gene regulation of human cell systems.’

24.10.25-Adele Murrell 'Introducing GNG12-AS1 as a LncRNA regulating a non-canonical imprint control centre, local and global nuclear architecture and migration phenotype in breast cancer cells.’

10.10.25- QMUL and Oxford Nanopore joint seminar 'Discover sequencing that captures it all'

12.09.25- Robert Illingworth 'Passive Yet Essential, Polycomb Repression in Development and Disease’​

20.06.25- Parinaz Mehdipour 'Triggering anti-viral immune responses against cancer through epigenetic and epitranscriptomic modifications'

23.05.25- Yaser Atlasi 'The role of USP7-PRC1 axis in health and disease’

09.05.25-  Omer Bayraktar “Mapping the rules of glioblastoma using single cell and spatial multiomics’’

25.04.25-Skirmantas Kriaucionis "Mutational Mechanisms of Modified Cytosines"

17.01.25-Rebecca Berrens "Transposable element expression in single cells during early development"

2024

11.10.24 - Angelo Lombardo, "Programming Gene Expression by Targeted Epigenetic Editing"
07.10.24 - Michael Christopher Keogh, "Next generation epigenetic insights with fully-defined nucleosomes"
11.01.24 - Kristian Helin, "Epigenetics and its role in transcriptional control, cell fate and cancer"

2023

01.12.23 - Joanna Jachowicz, "How ncRNAs shape nuclear functions during early mammalian development"
06.10.23 - Ryan Lister, "Natural and artificial regulation of human cell identities"
30.06.23 - Nazif Alic, "Ageing, transcription and transcriptional memory in the fruit fly"
03.04.23 - Gael Cristofari, "The epigenetic and transcriptional interplay between L1 retrotransposons and their integration sites"
21.04.23 - Tim Hore, "Epigenetics below the belt: sex and DNA methylation during germline development and aging"
20.03.23 - Marnie Blewitt, "Deciphering the epigenetic mechanisms of the non-canonical SMC protein SMCHD1"

2022

14.12.22 - "DNA on Repeat" meeting
10.11.22 - Bernard Thienpont, "Cell-free DNA methylome profiling predicts pregnancy complications presymptomatically"
30.9.22 - Stefan Schoenfelder, "Cis-regulatory control of pluripotent stem cell fates"
16.6.22 - Michael Imbeault, "KRAB zinc finger proteins, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks"
26.5.22 - Paola Scaffidi, "Chromatin deregulation in cancer: mechanisms and functional impact"
22.4.22 - Peter Sarkies, "A new metabolic requirement for DNA methylation?"
25.3.22 - Maxim Greenberg, "The Ripple Effect of Epigenetic Reprogramming"
18.2.22 - Nick Gilbert, "Regulation of large scale chromatin architecture in human cells"
27.1.22 - Richard Jenner, "Regulatory feedback from nascent RNA to chromatin"
18-19.1.22 - Gene Regulation and Epigenetics Conference for Early Career Scientists

2021

5.11.21 - Mitch Guttman, "How lncRNAs shape nuclear structure to control gene expression"
8.10.21 -  Jamie Hackett,  "Intergenerational Inheritance: why your father’s microbes matter"
10.9.21 -  Duncan Sproul,  "Understanding the causes of epigenetic dysfunction in human disease"
23.7.21 -  Tuncay Baubec,  "Regulation and function of DNA methylation in mammalian gene control"
9.7.21 -  Vijay Tiwari,  "Deciphering the epigenetic code of brain development"
25.6.21 -  Duncan Odom,  "Lesion segregation shapes cancer genome evolution"
11.6.21 -  Jason Carroll,  "Mechanisms of estrogen receptor gene regulation in breast cancer"
28.5.21 -  Adrian Bird,  "Proteins that interpret genome context to stabilise cell states"
14.5.21 -  Robin Allshire,  "Epigenetic regulation, heterochromatin and anti-fungal resistance"
30.4.21 -  Wendy Bickmore,  "The remote control of gene expression: enhancer function and the 3D genome"
16.4.21 -  Kaustuv Sanyal,  "Determinants of centromere identity in fungi"
30.3.21 -  Claire Rougeulle,  "Control of X chromosome activity by long noncoding RNAs"
23.3.21 -  Ferdinand von Meyenn,  "Epigenetic priming in human embryonic stem cells"
16.3.21 -  Jane Skok,  "The impact of cancer associated CTCF mutations on chromatin architecture and gene regulation"
9.3.21 -  Michelle Holland,  "Investigating the Functionality of rDNA Haplotypes"
9.3.21 -  Özgen Deniz,  "The Role of Transposable Elements in Leukaemia"
9.3.21 -  Sarah Marzi,  "Epigenetic Regulation in Neurodegenerative Disease"
2.3.21 -  Déborah Bourc'his,  "DNA methylation and stem cell homeostasis during spermatogenesis"
23.2.21 -  Liran Carmel,  "Paleo-epigenetics: using ancient DNA methylation to study human evolution"
16.2.21 -  Efrat Shema,  "Single-molecule epigenetics: Decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics"
16.2.21 -  Rob Klose,  "Dissecting Polycomb-mediated gene repression"
16.2.21 -  Iva Tchasovnikarova,  "Fluorogenetic interrogation of chromatin position effects'"
16.2.21 -  Steven Henikoff,  "Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interaction dynamics"
9.2.21 -  Yingming Zhao,  "A new family of histone lysine acylation pathways linking metabolism to gene expression"
2.2.21 -  Peter Rugg-Gunn,  "Establishing the human epigenome in development and pluripotency"
26.1.21 -  Ozren Bogdanovic,  "Canonical and non-canonical DNA methylation patterning during the vertebrate life cycle"
19.1.21 -  Miguel Ramalho-Santos,  "Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency and inheritance"
12.1.21 -  Stephan Beck,  "Connecting dots for genomic medicine"

2020

15.12.20 -  Andrew Pospisilik,  "Deconvoluting variation... and paternal piRNA-dependent intergenerational programming"
8.12.20 -  Eva Novoa,  "Decoding RNA modifications at single molecule resolution"
1.12.20 -  Jesse Engreitz,  "Genome-wide maps of enhancer regulation connect risk variants to disease genes"
24.11.20 -  Wei Xie -  "Chromatin reprogramming and transcription regulation during early animal development"
17.11.20 -  Alberto Kornblihtt,  "Coupling of transcription and alternative splicing in health and disease"
10.11.20 -  Michaela Frye,  "Cytosine-5 RNA methylation in cancer"
3.11.20 -  Todd Macfarlan,  "Co-evolution of a histone methyl 'writer' and its 'reader' controls recombination patterns in vertebrates"
27.10.20 -  Siavash Kurdistani,  "Histones and Copper: A common thread from eukaryogenesis to human disease"
20.10.20 -  Howard Chang,  "Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs"
13.10.20 -  Mark Dawson,  "Targeting the epigenome in cancer"
6.10.20 -  Michael Eisen,  "Science publishing is F’d up. Let's fix it."
29.9.20 -  Job Dekker,  "Chromosome topology: from mammals to the extraordinary dinoflagellates"
22.9.20 -  Steve Horvath,  "DNA methylation studies in mammals"
15.9.20 -  Alexander Meissner,  "Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in development and disease"
10-11.9.20 -  New Horizons in Genomics Conference
1.9.20 -  Jay Shendure,  "Global Views of Mammalian Development"
25.8.20 -  Ana Pombo,  "Cell-type specialization in the brain is encoded by specific long-range chromatin topologies"
18.8.20 -  Robert Seaborne -  "The Importance of Maintaining Your Mental Health and Wellbeing: an academic perspective"
4.8.20 -  Diane Dickel,  "From Regulatory to Organismal Complexity: Noncoding DNA in Development and Disease"
28.7.20 -  Dimple Notani,  "Enhancer pre-seeding drives 3D chromatin organization and transcriptional response to acute signaling"
21.7.20 -  Christoph Bock,  "Single-cell Sequencing of Epigenetic Disease Landscapes and Induced Perturbations"
14.7.20 -  Dirk Schübeler -  "Finding your place: transcription factors as sensors and modifiers of chromatin"
7.7.20 -  Giacomo Cavalli -  "3D genome organization and Polycomb proteins in gene regulation and development"
30.6.20 -  John Rinn -  "Polycomb, RNA & Chromatin: it’s complicated"
23.6.20 -  Manuel Serrano -  "Questions around cellular plasticity: naive pluripotency and epigenetic rejuvenation by reprogramming"
9.6.20 -  Mansi Srivastava -  "Chromatin and stem cell dynamics during whole-body regeneration"
2.6.20 -  Vincent Lynch -  "On the impossibility of elephants"
26.5.20 -  Amy Pandya-Jones -  "A protein assembly mediates Xist localization and gene silencing"
22.5.20 -  Oliver Rando -  "Daddy issues: effects of paternal environment on the next generation"
19.5.20 -  Marnie Blewitt -  "Xmas C: Screens using a new female embryonic stem cell system reveal the requirement to open promoter chromatin to establish silencing"
12.5.20 -  Matthew Lorincz -  "Chromatin-Guided De Novo Methylation in the Mammalian Germline"
5.5.20 -  Roberto Bonasio -  "TET2 regulates tRNA fragment generation by RNA hydroxymethyl modification"
28.4.20 -  Arjun Raj -  "Emergent cellular ecosystems in melanoma revealed by single cell analysis"
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