MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Steven DeLuca
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
3:30pm – 4:30pm
BPB 131
Dr. Steven DeLuca Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
Hosted by Dr. Stacey Hanlon
"Regulation of Developmental gene silencing revealed by an ancient cell lineage."
Dr. DeLuca will describe how a post-translational modification called SUMO regulates when (in development) and where (in the genome) silencing proteins concentrate onto their target genes.
Dr. DeLuca considers himself a developmental geneticist. As a grad student with Pat O’Farrell at UCSF, DeLuca figured out how maternal mitochondrial DNA inheritance works by making mitochondrial mutants and studying their transmission through the male germline. As a postdoc with Allan Spradling at the Carnegie Institute, he developed a new model system for studying the developmental onset of gene silencing and found silencing initiation is primarily regulated by a scaffolding protein called Scm. Dr. DeLuca started his own lab at Brandeis in 2022.
View his publication and his website
For more information, contact: Ashley Landon at ashley.landon@uconn.edu