Dr. Bing Zhu

Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Invited by Dr. Pierre-Antoine Defossez

“Epigenetics: remember the past & prepare for the future.” 

The seminar is Zoom-only

On Wednesday, May 6that 11:00 am.

https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/86114422072?pwd=VzJ0c2pxcHl4OWppekx3MldlM2Y4QT09

ID de réunion : 861 1442 2072

Code secret : 492809

Relevant publications from the speaker:

Targeting pericentric non-consecutive motifs for heterochromatin initiation.

Ma R, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Zhang P, Liu Z, Fan Y, Wang HT, Zhang Z, Zhu B.

Nature. 2024 Jul;631(8021):678-685. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07640-5. Epub 2024 Jul 3.PMID: 38961301

Pramel15 facilitates zygotic nuclear DNMT1 degradation and DNA demethylation.

Tan J, Li Y, Li X, Zhu X, Liu L, Huang H, Wei J, Wang H, Tian Y, Wang Z, Zhang Z, Zhu B.

Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 25;15(1):7310. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51614-0. PMID: 39181896

Basis of the H2AK119 specificity of the Polycomb repressive deubiquitinase.

Ge W, Yu C, Li J, Yu Z, Li X, Zhang Y, Liu CP, Li Y, Tian C, Zhang X, Li G, Zhu B*, Xu RM*.Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7955):176-182. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05841-y. Epub 2023 Mar 29.PMID: 36991118

Highly enriched BEND3 prevents the premature activation of bivalent genes during differentiation.

Zhang J, Zhang Y, You Q, Huang C, Zhang T, Wang M, Zhang T, Yang X, Xiong J, Li Y, Liu CP, Zhang Z, Xu RM, Zhu B.

Science. 2022 Mar 4;375(6584):1053-1058. doi: 10.1126/science.abm0730. Epub 2022 Feb 10.PMID: 35143257

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