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Epigenetics Symposium a Success at University of Arizona
By Trevor | March 6, 2007
The Arizona Daily Wildcat reports on the first major science symposium held last Saturday in the new Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch building at the University of Arizona in Tucson: Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression and Inheritance Symposium.
- Maureen Peterson, a first-year genetics graduate student, said because of the symposium, she wants to do further research in epigenetics, which she explained as the difference in gene expression levels that occur from modifications of the DNA molecule, not on changes of the DNA sequence itself.
In the last five to 10 years, the additional mechanisms superimposed upon the underlying DNA sequence that form the genetic basis of the template of gene regulation have become the focus for scientists, said Vicki Chandler, director of the BIO5 Institute and a professor of plant sciences and molecular and cellular biology.
The symposium was attended by about 120 researchers and students. Speakers included Thomas Jenuwein, Steven Henikoff, Richard Amasino, Danesh Moazed, Anne Ferguson-Smith, Vicki Chandler, and Arturas Petronis. Link
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