SGS: Yoichi Shinkai - Biology of Histidine Methylation
Max Planck Special Guest Lecture Series
- Date: Nov 9, 2023
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Yoichi Shinkai
- RIKEN, Wakō, Japan
- Location: MPI-IE
- Room: Main Lecture Hall
- Host: Thomas Jenuwein
Yoichi Shinkai is Chief Scientist at the Cellular Memory Laboratory, Riken, Japan and joins the Max Planck Special Guest Lecture Series. His talk deals with the “Biology of Histidine Methylation”
His lab at RIKEN principal objective is to understand the molecular mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation and the role of epigenetics in health and disease. In his talk, In this seminar, Shinkai will talk about his labs recent research progress on the His methyltransferases, whose modifications were reported more than 50 years ago, but the actual responsible enzyme has not been clarified.