In addition to our superb keynote speaker, Dr. Joe Costello, we also enjoyed many wonderful talks and illuminating posters from both NIEHS and UNC trainees.
After discussion, the Chromatin and Epigenetics Symposium Committee has chosen our top two Speakers for prizes of $200 each:
- Top Postdoctoral Talk: Aleksandra Skrajna, PhD (McGinty Lab) Proteome-wide footprinting of nucleosome acidic patch binding at amino acid resolution
- Top Graduate Student Talk: Caroline Fraser (Davis Lab) Investigating the connection between EWS-FLI1 and PAX7 in chromatin state and oncogenesis in Ewing sarcoma
We have also collected the votes for the top three posters, with prizes of $200 each:
- Sherette Godfrey, PhD (Weissman Lab), Investigating epigenetic differences by race and their underlying mechanisms in endometrial cancer
- Christopher Travis (Waters Lab) Electrostatic Noncovalent Interactions Drive AF9 YEATS Domain Binding to Histone Crotonyllysine and its Isosteres
- Melanie Uguen, PhD (Frye Lab), Allosteric modulation of SETDB1 methyltransferase activity using small molecules
Congratulations to our prize winners! We hope that we will see everyone again next year for more great reached