2002 Fall Seminar Series
Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Expression: The Roles of Chromatin and Co-Transcriptional RNA Processing
Coordinators: Michael Hampsey, Ph.D. and Danny Reinberg, Ph.D.
September 17, 2002
Dr. Nicholas J. Proudfoot
University of Oxford
Ending the Message: Integrating Transcription and mRNA Processing
in Eukaryotes
September 26, 2002
Dr. David Allis
U of Virginia School of Medicine
Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails
October 3, 2002
Dr. Steve Buratowski
Harvard University
Coupling of Transcription with Chromatin and mRNA Processing
October 10, 2002
Dr. Eric Phizicky
U of Rochester Medical Center
A Genomics Approach for Mapping Biochemical
Activities to Genes
October 17, 2002
Dr. Aaron Shatkin
RWJMS-CABM
mRNA Capping-More than a Hat Trick
October 24, 2002
Dr. Shiv Grewal
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Role of RNA Interference Machinery in Higher-Order
Chromatin Assembly
October 31, 2002
Dr. Ronen Marmorstein
The Wistar Institute
Histone Acetyltransferases: From Structure to Function
November 7, 2002
Dr. David Bently
U of Colorado Health Sciences Ctr
Coordination of Transcription by RNA pol
II with pre-mRNA Processing
November 11, 2002
Dr. Gideon Dreyfuss
University of Pennsylvania
The SMN Complex: A Molecular Machine that
Assembles RNAs
November 14, 2002
Dr. Gary Felsenfeld
NIDDK/NIH
The Establishment & Maintenance of Chromatin Boundaries
November 21, 2002
Dr. James Manley
Columbia University
mRNA Processing and the Integration of Nuclear Events
December 5, 2002
Dr. Timothy H. Bestor
Columbia University
Biology of Genomic Methylation Patterns
December 12, 2002
Dr. Claire Moore
Tufts University
Coupling Transcription with mRNA 3’ end Formation
