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Seminar: Abid Khan PhD
January 28 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

“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.