Wednesday September 21st, 2022, at 11:00 am
Frédéric Berger
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Invited by Pierre-Antoine Defossez
“When mothers take full control of embryo development: paternal chromosome repression in viviparous species”
The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room (RB-18B). Bâtiment Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion, Paris 13th.
Zoom link for remote attendees:
https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/86114422072?pwd=VzJ0c2pxcHl4OWppekx3MldlM2Y4QT09
Contact: sophie.polo@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Relevant publications from the speaker:
Polycomb-mediated repression of paternal chromosomes maintains haploid dosage in diploid embryos of Marchantia.
Montgomery SA, Hisanaga T, Wang N, Axelsson E, Akimcheva S, Sramek M, Liu C, Berger F.
Elife. 2022 Aug 23;11:e79258. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79258.
The chromatin remodeler DDM1 prevents transposon mobility through deposition of histone variant H2A.W.
Osakabe A, Jamge B, Axelsson E, Montgomery SA, Akimcheva S, Kuehn AL, Pisupati R, Lorković ZJ, Yelagandula R, Kakutani T, Berger F.
Nat Cell Biol. 2021 Apr;23(4):391-400. doi: 10.1038/s41556-021-00658-1.
Targeted reprogramming of H3K27me3 resets epigenetic memory in plant paternal chromatin.
Borg M, Jacob Y, Susaki D, LeBlanc C, Buendía D, Axelsson E, Kawashima T, Voigt P, Boavida L, Becker J, Higashiyama T, Martienssen R, Berger F.
Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Jun;22(6):621-629. doi: 10.1038/s41556-020-0515-y.
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