Seminar Title: Toxicoepigenetics and the Use of piRNA for Precision Environmental Health Research
Date: Monday, May 10, 2021
Time: 10:00 am est - 11:15 am est
WebEx link:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/jem02027
Dana C. Dolinoy is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences and NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Faculty Director of the Epigenomics Core at Michigan Medicine. Her research focuses on how nutritional and environmental factors interact with epigenetic gene regulation to shape health and disease. In 2015, she received a NIH Director’s Transformative Award to develop piRNA epigenetic editing technologies and in 2021 received the Society of Toxicology Leading Edge in Basic Sciences Award and has recently co-edited the book ToxicoEpigenetics: Core Principles and Applications. She has authored >125 manuscripts and 10 book chapters and served as Chair of the Gordon Conference in Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity.
For more information, contact: Jose Manautou at jose.manautou@uconn.edu