Month: February 2019

2019/02/25 – Qiong Wu – Deciphering the genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic landscapes of pre-invasive lung cancer lesions @SHB1021B

2019/02/18
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The molecular alterations that occur in cells before cancer is manifest are largely uncharted. Lung carcinoma in situ (CIS) lesions are the pre-invasive precursor to squamous cell carcinoma. Although microscopically identical, their future is in equipoise, with half progressing to invasive cancer and half regressing or remaining static. The cellular basis of this clinical observation […]

2019/02/11 – Alan Lin – Genomic encoding of transcriptional burst kinetics @SHB1021B

2019/02/04
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Mammalian gene expression is inherently stochastic1,2, and results in discrete bursts of RNA molecules that are synthesized from each allele3,4,5,6,7. Although transcription is known to be regulated by promoters and enhancers, it is unclear how cis-regulatory sequences encode transcriptional burst kinetics. Characterization of transcriptional bursting, including the burst size and frequency, has mainly relied on live-cell4,6,8 or […]