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      The Center for Cancer Epigenetics Distinguished Lecture

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      The Center for Cancer Epigenetics Distinguished Lecture

      The Center for Cancer Epigenetics Distinguished Lecture

      The Center for Cancer Epigenetics presents Dr. Richard Roberts from BioLabs. Dr. Roberts is a Nobel Laureate and the Chief Scientific Officer at BioLabs. Dr. Roberts will present a lecture titled, " Bacterial Methylomes".

      Date: 12/14/18, 10am to 11am
      Time: 12/14/18, 10am to 11am
      Location: Onstead Auditorium, Basic Science Research Building, Floor 3, near Elevator J, (S3.8012)
      Format: Lecture
      Facilitator: Dr. Xiaodong Cheng
      Speaker: Dr. Richard Roberts
      Speaker Bio: Dr. Richard J. Roberts went to the University of Sheffield where he obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968. His postdoctoral research was carried out in Professor J.L. Strominger's laboratory at Harvard, where he studied the tRNAs that are involved in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls. From 1972 to 1992, he worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, reaching the position of Assistant Director for Research under Dr. J.D. Watson. He began work on the newly discovered Type II restriction enzymes in 1972 and in the next few years more than 100 such enzymes were discovered and characterized in Dr. Roberts' laboratory. His laboratory has cloned the genes for several restriction enzymes and their cognate methylases and studies of these enzymes has been a major research theme. Dr. Roberts has also been involved in studies of Adenovirus-2 beginning with studies of transcription that led to the discovery of split genes and mRNA splicing in 1977. This was followed by efforts to deduce the DNA sequence of the Adenovirus-2 genome and a complete sequence of 35,937 nucleotides was obtained. His laboratory pioneered the application of computers in this area and the further development of computer methods of protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis continues to be a major research focus. The field of DNA methyltransferases is also an area of active research interest and crystal structures for the HhaI methyltransferase both alone and in complex with DNA have been obtained in collaboration with Dr. X. Cheng. The latter complex is remarkable as the protein causes the target cytosine base to flip completely out of the helix so that it is accessible for chemical reaction. A major interest at present is the semi-automatic identification of restriction enzyme and methylase genes within the GenBank database and the development of rapid methods to assay function.
      Contact: Jessica Fields - (713) 834-6267 - jnfields@mdanderson.org
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