Module: 1
Sponsoring Program: BMS/DSCB
Administrator: Priscilla Perreira

STUDY LIST INFORMATION
Course Number: BMS 270/DSCB 270
Course Name: Epigenetics and chromatin structure in development and disease
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: Yin Shen

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Other faculty: Elphege Nora, Dan LIm 
Dates: April 3 - 21
Campus: PH
Location: CS-1116 & 1117
Schedule: M/W/F 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Minimum Class Size: 4
Maximum Class Size: 12

This course will cover latest insights into the nature of epigenetic gene regulation and its role in normal development, reprogramming, and disease. Topics will include the role of DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, cis-regulatory elements, higher-order chromatin structure, and non-coding RNAs in genome defense, cellular differentiation, reprogramming and disease. The course will involve the reading and discussion of recent select seminal papers in the field. For each class meeting, the instructors will provide approximately 30 minutes of background, and then the papers (1 per session) will be discussed as a group.