Tuesday, October 12, 2021
3:30pm – 4:30pm
BPB 130
Dr. Sheila Teves
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of British Columbia
Host: Leighton Core
"Transcriptional memory and dynamics in embryonic stem cells"
Summary: Transcription regulation is a key component of cell identity and function. In this seminar, I will discuss how transcription programs are maintained through the cell cycle, and explore new mechanisms in transcription initiation.
Dr. Sheila Teves received her PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle, working with Dr. Steven Henikoff at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In her graduate thesis, she addressed the questions of how the nucleosome impacts transcription regulation, and vice versa. As a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tjian lab at the University of California, Berkeley, she explored how transcription programs are maintained and regulated during the cell cycle. In July 2018, she started her own group at the University of British Columbia, combining interdisciplinary techniques such as genomics and single molecule imaging to address basic biological questions on transcription regulation, chromatin biology, and cell identity.
To learn more about Dr. Teves, visit https://elifesciences.org/articles/22280 and https://teveslab.wordpress.com/
Seminar can be live streamed here
For more information, contact: Ciara Hanlon at ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu