Epigenetic switching in seasonal timing
Caroline Dean
Caroline Dean has been a project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich since 1988. She helped establish Arabidopsis as the reference system for molecular studies in plants. Her group has focused on understanding the controls used by plants to judge when to flower, focusing on response to prolonged cold. This work has led to dissection of conserved co-transcriptional mechanisms that link antisense transcription with chromatin dynamics and their modulation during adaptation. This is elaborating the switching mechanism underlying Polycomb silencing and the digital memory stored in the local chromatin environment.
Caroline did her PhD at the University of York, and then spent 5 years as a post-doctoral research fellow in a biotech company (Advanced Genetic Sciences) in California, before returning to the UK. She served as Associate Research Director of the John Innes Centre (1999-2008), was elected to EMBO in 1999, Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, and US National Academy of Sciences and German Leopoldina Academies in 2008. She was awarded an OBE in 2004, a BBSRC Excellence in Bioscience award in 2014, FEBS/EMBO Woman in Science award in 2015 and appointed Dame Commander in 2016.
More information about Caroline Dean:
https://www.jic.ac.uk/staff/caroline-dean/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Dean
Time: Nov. 22nd, 2016, 9:30-11:45
Venue: New Biology Building, Room 143
Hosts: Qianwen Sun, Yule Liu, Jijie Chai, Yijun Qi
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