June 3, 2013 - 8:45am
Dr. Kabirul Islam received his PhD in 2005 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the area of natural product synthesis. He then moved to Rockefeller University as a postdoctoral associate, where he developed inhibitors of the motor protein myosin V, and in 2009, he moved to MSKCC in New York, where he is involved in the profiling of protein methylation. Kabirul will be studying the function of epigenetic gene regulation in human development and disease, with a focus on DNA demethylation, profiling reader domains, and chromatin remodeling using small molecule probes.
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