Epigenetics Seminar Series 2024
We’re delighted to resume our online Epigenetics Seminar Series in 2024. A wonderful program has been planned, with the seminar hosted by one of our Committee members and featuring a line-up of speakers from around Australasia and overseas.
The online Seminars are held monthly and are open for all to attend. Don’t want to miss a seminar? please join AEpiA to receive updates on upcoming seminars.
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Many of our seminars will be recorded (with speakers’ permission), so if you miss one that you’d love to see, please become a member of AEpiA and you will be able to watch all recordings in the members-only area.
We extend many thanks to our generous sponsors.
Past seminars
2024
Thursday 18th July 2024
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Professor Xu Dong Zhang and Dr Zac Germon
The University of Newcastle
‘The small nucleolar RNA SNORD80 stabilizes the lncRNA CAS5 by 2′-O-methylation to regulate cellular stress responses’
‘Redox signalling influences the kinome and methylome of kinase-activated acute myeloid leukemia.’
Monday 17th June 2024
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Associate Professor Severine Lamon
Deakin University
Mitochondrial non-coding RNAs: new players in skeletal muscle regulation
Friday 24th May 2024
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Dr Ruth Pidsley & Dr Tim Peters
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Insights and recommendations for improved analysis of DNA methylation with the new EPICv2 microarray
Wednesday 24th April 2024
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Dr Owen Marshall
University of Tasmania
New states of mind: the chromatin landscape of brain development and disease
Thursday 21st March 2024
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Dr Luke Isbel
SAiGENCI & Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics
Transcription factors navigate chromatin using multiple mechanisms
2023
Wednesday 29 November 2023
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
A/Prof Marian Burr
Australian National University
Epigenetic mechanisms of immune evasion in cancer
Thursday 19th October 2023
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Dr Farha Ramzan
University of Auckland
Nutriepigenomics: A crosstalk between diet, microRNA and inflammation
Wednesday 27th September 2023
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Prof Marina Kennerson
ANZAC Research Institute
Illuminating the “dark genome”: a genetics odyssey from exome to non-coding structural variation in hereditary neuropathies
Friday 18th August 2023
1 - 2 pm (AEST)
Dr Chuck Herring
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth, WA, Australia
Human prefrontal cortex gene regulatory dynamics from gestation to adulthood at single-cell resolution
Wednesday 19th July 2023
4 - 5 pm (AEST)
Dr Miguel Branco
Queen Mary University, London, UK
Transposable element regulation and roles in trophoblast
Friday 16th June 2023
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
A/Prof Stacey Edwards
QIMR Berghofer, Queensland, Australia
Wednesday 17th May 2023
4 - 5 pm (AEST)
Host: Lisa Nicholas
Dr Adrienne Sullivan
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Gata3 mediates early patterning and epigenetic remodelling during human gastrulation
Friday 21st April 2023
3 - 4 pm (AEST)
Host: Mark Ziemann
Prof Joanna Jachowicz
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
Short stories about long RNAs
Thurs 16th March 2023
Inaugural Emma Whitelaw ECR Publication Award Presentation
12 - 1 pm (AEST)
Host: Alex Woodworth
Dr Woo Jun Shim
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Inferring regulatory genes governing cell identity
Past seminars 2022
Dr Melanie Eckersley-Maslin
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Epigenetic plasticity in development and cancer
Dr Paul Marshall
Queensland Brain Institute, UQ
Experience-dependent accumulation of G-quadruplex DNA serves as a transcriptional control device to regulate the consolidation and stability of fear-related memories
Prof Ian Campbell
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Resolving the role of inherited promoter hypermethylation in hereditary breast cancer
Dr Jessamy Tiffen
Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Sydney
Targeting BET proteins in melanoma: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
A/Prof Jason Lee
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, QLD
Targeting histone methyltransferases in cancer: multiple mechanisms
A/Prof Luciano Martelotto
A brief overview of my favourite single cell and spatial epigenomics technologies
Thurs 21 April 2022
12 – 1 pm (AEDT)
Host: Dr Melanie Eckersley-Maslin
Read more about Hamish in our Spotlight on: Hamish King
Dr Hamish King
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC
Single-cell genomics to understand gene regulatory potential in the human immune system
Tues 15 March 2022
12 – 1 pm (AEDT)
Host: Dr Tim Hore
Read more about Louise in our Spotlight on: Louise Bicknell
Dr Louise Bicknell
Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, NZ
Mutations in Histone H4 underlie a novel neurodevelopmental disorder
Past seminars 2021
Tues 16 Nov 2021
4 – 5 pm (AEDT)
Host: Dr Heather Lee
Read more about Giacomo in our Spotlight on: Giacomo Cavalli
Dr Giacomo Cavalli
Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, France
Principles and functional role of 3D genome folding
Thurs 21 Oct 2021
1 – 2 pm (AEST)
Host: Prof David Tremethick
Read more about Julia in our Spotlight on: Julia Horsfield
Prof Julia Horsfield
Department of Pathology, University of Otago, NZ
How signalling pathways interact with cohesin deficiency
Thurs 16 Sept 2021
1 – 2 pm (AEST)
Host: A/Prof Adele Holloway
Dr Lisa Marie Nicholas
Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide
Developmental programming of diabetes by maternal obesity – understanding the role of DNA methylation in pancreatic islets
A/Prof Timothy Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
New insights into long noncoding RNAs in the brain
A/Prof Luke Selth
Flinders University, South Australia
Post-transcriptional regulation of prostate cancer cell plasticity
A/Prof Ozren Bogdanovic
Laboratory Head – Developmental Epigenomics Lab, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Canonical and non-canonical DNA methylation remodelling during early embryogenesis
Prof Wendy Bickmore
MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, UK
The role of spatial proximity in genome regulation
Professor Margreet Vissers
Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago
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Professor Greg Jones
Department of Surgical Sciences (Dunedin), University of Otago
Identifying effects of variable dietary vitamin C intake on the activity of the TET demethylases in vivo
Past Seminars 2020
Thurs 12 Nov 2020
Host: Prof David Tremethick
Dr Tanya Soboleva
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Identifying new regulators of cancer: the role of cancer-testis genes
Thurs 22 Oct 2020
Host: Dr Phillippa Taberlay
Professor Peter Jones
Van Andel Institute, USA
The whys and hows of DNA methylation
Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Reversing mesenchymal behaviour in cancer cells by targeted epigenetic editing
Professor Sudha Rao
QIMR Berghofer
Novel epigenetic driven re-invigoration: progress from mechanism to therapeutics in immuno-oncology
Thurs 23 July 2020
12.00 – 12.45pm
Host: A/Prof Bastien Llamas
Professor Jus St. John
The University of Adelaide
Genomic balance
Dr Alyson Ashe
The University of Sydney
Insights into transgenerational epigenetic inheritance from C. elegans
