{"id":14500,"date":"2024-11-01T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:29:14","slug":"dr-margarita-dzama-receives-acs-postdoctoral-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-margarita-dzama-receives-acs-postdoctoral-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Margarita Dzama Receives ACS Postdoctoral Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14244\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 198px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14244 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/09\/Margartia-Dzama.jpg\" alt=\"Margartia Dzama\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Margarita Dzama, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Margarita Dzama, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jesse Raab, has been awarded a Fellowship grant from the American Cancer Society, for her project titled \u201cIdentification of Epigenetic Therapies for Liver Cancer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed work will focus on mutations in chromatin regulators, which are found in ~50% of liver cancer, specifically two novel targets, MEN1 and ASH2L, which are the core subunits of the H3K4 methyltransferase menin-MLL complex. \u00a0Dr. Dzama aims to establish the mechanism of how menin and ASH2L regulate HCC on the molecular level by performing a comprehensive analysis of changes in gene expression (RNA-seq), chromatin accessibility (ATAC-seq), and distribution of active (H3K4me1\/2\/3) and repressive (H3K27me3) chromatin marks as well as binding patterns of menin and ASH2L to chromatin (CUT&amp;RUN).\u00a0 She will characterize the importance of menin and ASH2L in vivo by using xenograft and genetically-modified mouse models. 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