"Role of Histone Methylation in Germ Cell Development and Obesity"

Dr. Zhang is an HHMI Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in our department.  His research studies how epigenetic-mediated dynamic changes in chromatin structure affect gene expression, cell lineage commitment, stem cell pluripotency and self-renewal, and cancer development. His long-term goal is to apply this basic research to studies of human diseases.

To learn more, please visit his website: www.med.unc.edu/~zhangyi/lab.htm

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