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Event Series Event Series: Spring Seminar Series

Seminar: Abid Khan PhD

January 28 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Abid Khan by lab

“Epigenetic Moonlighting: From Chromatin to Cell Cycle” Abid Khan PhD, Research Associate UNC. Host Brian Strahl.


Dr. Abid Khan graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University in India with a B.E. in Biotechnology; received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and currently is a postdoctoral Research Associate in Brian Strahl’s lab here at UNC. Abid’s years of research have uncovered numerous scientific breakthroughs. While working in the Strahl lab, Abid discovered the first non-catalytic function of SETD2; uncovered a fundamental mechanism of cell biology, wherein, the histone methyltransferase SETD2 moonlights during mitosis and collaborates with CDK1 to regulate lamin phosphorylation, thereby maintaining nuclear integrity and genome stability. This mechanism partly explains SETD2’s tumor suppressor role in kidney cancer; and is currently investigating the role of SETD2 in transcription elongation.

Details

Date:
January 28
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

1131 Bioinformatics
130 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States

Organizer

Rhonda Strickland
Email
rbrann@email.unc.edu