Webcast: Looking Forward @ Hopkins: Remote Speaker Series, JHU's Gilman Scholars
About the Series:
Johns Hopkins University is a vibrant community of intellectual exchange committed to its mission of sharing knowledge with the world. This is true no matter if our physical campus is open or closed. Through the new Looking Forward @ Hopkins: Remote Speaker Series, JHU’s Gilman Scholars are engaging the scholarly community by sharing cutting-edge scholarship during the COVID-19 shutdown. The series will build virtual intellectual and social bridges to fill gaps left during this time of physical social distancing, and excite faculty, students, and staff to bring new ideas back to campus with them when our campuses re-open.
Each week, one of the university’s Gilman Scholars will give a talk presenting their research, followed by time for questions. The Gilman Scholars comprise faculty members from a wide range of research areas who have been honored with this distinction—named for Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins’ first president—for their outstanding contributions to scholarship, research, teaching, and service.
The series is organized by Andy Feinberg. He also will present “Epigenetics and the Adaptive Genome in a Changing Environment,” the first talk in the series, on April 2, 2020, at noon.
“I’ve been awed by the scholarship of my colleagues in this group,” says Feinberg. “They talk about their own research with excitement and passion. I thought it might be fun for them to share their ideas with the community, particularly to help us think about some of the exciting scholarship we’ll be able to pursue when we come back to campus.”
More info here: https://research.jhu.edu/researchcommunication/lookingforward/
Epigenetics and the Adaptive Genome in a Changing Environment
Andy Feinberg
April 2 at Noon
Professor Feinberg is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Epigenetics. He is the director of the Center for Epigenetics and has appointments in the departments of Medicine, Oncology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine; in the departments of Mental Health and Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health; and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering. Professor Feinberg is considered to be a founder of the field of cancer epigenetics. He contributes his expertise in human epigenetics to cutting-edge research in cancer and applies these concepts to understand the role of epigenetics in all aspects of human disease.
Feinberg was the first to demonstrate how genetics, epigenetics, and the environment interact to cause disease, and pioneered the field of epigenomics, developing many of the experimental and statistical tools to study epigenetics at a genome-scale level. Feinberg’s research is now focused on studying the epigenetic basis of normal development and disease, including cancer, aging, and neuropsychiatric illness. He is one of 10 principal investigators on NASA’s Twins Study analyzing the epigenetic effects of spaceflight on the Kelly identical twins, comparing samples from twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly during Scott’s year in space.
Scheduled Speakers
4/2 Andy Feinberg Epigenetics and the Adaptive Genome in a Changing Environment
4/9 Al Sommer Do You Really Want to Hear From an Epidemiologist at a Time Like This?
4/16 Barbara Landau Unforgettable: When an Amnesic Artist Remembers
4/23 Mike Miller Pointilism, Alzheimer’s, and COVID-19: What do they have in common?
4/30 Jeremy Nathans X-chromosome Inactivation, Color Vision, and the Female Advantage
5/7 Lisa Cooper Health Inequities in a Global Pandemic