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Scientific Webinar Assignments (2021-2024): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/122eouLgJtMoCJNKmNhygufdU1qqEy-dDomxqqyQ1TxM/edit?usp=sharing

The 4DN Consortium Scientific Webinar Series is designed to promote sharing ideas and establishment of new collaborations among the consortium members. It features scientific presentations by 4DN member group. These presentations are focused on new discoveries, and new approaches and are not meant to be high-level summaries of deliverables/objectives of each project as in annual consortium meetings. Each group is strongly encouraged to present unpublished research. The PI of each member group may designate either themselves or members of their group to give the presentation.

The format of this webinar series will consist of hour-long online video conferences. Each Webinar will feature two presentations, with each presentation allocated 20’ of talk time followed by 10’ of discussion. All member groups of 4DN consortium are expected to present once in this round, although some centers may present twice given the size of their grants.

The Webinar organization committee has discussed and come up with a schedule for presentations after February 2021. See the schedule here: Scientific Webinar Assignment 2021-2024.

The schedule is ranked by funded project and the corresponding PI's last name. While the corresponding PI is put in the presentation slot, it is up to the corresponding PI to decide who in their team is to give the talk. It is encouraged that trainees are given the chance to present. If the corresponding PI wants to switch with someone else on the list in a mutual agreement, then she/he has the responsibility to arrange it and let the Webinar organization committee know.

Scientific Webinar Committee: Ana Pombo, Golnaz Vahedi, Sheng Zhong, Ting Wang, Wenbo Li, Sui Huang, Yin Shen, Taekjip Ha

March 25, 2022

Moderator: Ting Wang

Presenter: Joao Raimundo (Princeton University) - “TBD” (Link to presenter slides)

Presenter: Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Institute for Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany) - “ Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and reprogramming to totipotency” (Link to presenter slides)

• Scientific Webinar presentations (Phase 1) can be found here.
• Scientific Webinar presentations (Phase 2) can be found here.

March 25, 2022

8:00-8:30 am Pacific Time, 20 minutes talk, then 10 minutes Q&A

Joao Raimundo

Postdoc

raimundo@princeton.edu

Title: “Topological Operons: Transcriptional Coupling of Distant Regulatory Genes in Living Embryos”

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Mike Levine’s lab at Princeton University studying the role of genome topology on gene regulation and how genome folding contributes to the establishment of long-range enhancer-promoter communication during development. During my PhD I investigated how a subcellular tug-of-war between transcription factors constitutes a molecular switch underlying the asymmetrical shape of the snapdragon flower at Enrico Coen and Manuela Costa’s labs.

8:30-9:00 am Pacific Time, 20 minutes talk, then 10 minutes Q&A

Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla

Professor

torres-padilla@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Title: “Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and reprogramming to totipotency”

Maria-Elena studied Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, Mexico and obtained her Ph.D at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. She was a postdoctoral fellow at The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge and started her own lab in Strasbourg in 2009. She moved to Munich in 2016, where she is the Director of the Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Cells at Helmholtz Munich and is Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the LMU University. Maria-Elena’s research has been devoted to unravelling the epigenetic mechanisms behind cellular plasticity and cell fate. Her team combines high-resolution microscopy, single-cell and low-input genomic approaches with functional perturbations to study the epigenetic principles underlying cellular reprogramming and the establishment of totipotency in the early mouse embryo.

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Next Scientific Webinar Presentation

When: April 22, 2022

Moderator: Sheng Zhong

Presenters:

• Member from
  • *Danwei Huangfu (contact), Effie Apostolou, Christina Leslie's group (Presenter and title will be determined by group) * Member from David Schatz (contact), Siyuan Wang's group ** (Presenter and title will be determined by group)