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Next Friday November 25 at 13h, the conference hall of the Duran i Reynals Hospital (ICO) holds the seminar “Epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure and function” by Ferran Azorín, Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona.
About Ferran Azorín
Master Degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona (1975), and PhD Thesis in Biology, from the same university. Doctoral fellowship from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Dpt. Macromolecular Queminstry CSIC. Barcelona, Spain (1975-77). Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, (1978-80).
Postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Postdoctoral fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) - Department of Biology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge, MA, USA (1982-83). Postdoctoral fellowship from the Charles A. King Trust, Boston, Massachusetts, USA – Department of Biology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge, MA, USA (1983-84).Postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Education - Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (1985-86). Assistant Professor with tenure at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (1986). Assistant Professor with tenure at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain (1986-88), and Associate Professor at the same institution (1988-92). Full Professor, Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona-CSIC. Barcelona, Spain (1992).
Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) since 1995. Member of the Advisory Committee for Biology and Biomedicine of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC – 1993-96). Vice-director of the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona-CSIC. Barcelona, Spain (1992-2002). Director of the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona-CSIC. Barcelona, Spain (2002). Author of 89 publications. 25 invited conferences.
Genomic functions take place in chromatin, not in naked DNA. In recent years, our knowledge about the regulation of chromatin functions has improved thanks to the identification of components and mechanisms that modify its structural and functional properties, such as remodelling complexes, histone modifications (acetylation, methylation...)and the corresponding enzymes, histone variants that localise to specific chromosome locations, structural non-histone proteins that contribute to the structural properties of specific chromatin regions (heterochromatin), among others. Our research focuses on the study of the molecular basis of chromatin function and its regulation. |
