Social DNAing

The weekly DNA Dynamics Webinar Series, Social DNAing, sponsored by the Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, aims to provide a virtual meeting room for the genomic instability community across the world.

The series began on June 18th, 2020. The talks begin at Noon ET (U.S.) every Thursday via Zoom.

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2024/2025 Webinars

  • November 21: Romain Koszul, PhD - Pasteur Institute

    • "Sequence-dependent activity and folding of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus"
  • December 5: Peter Lewis, PhD - University of Wisconsin

    • "Exploring the Role of Polycomb Allosteric Regulation in Human Cancers"
  • December 12: Keji Zhao - NIH/NHIBI

    • "Detection, function, and regulation of chromatin loops"
  • December 19: Guohong Li - Wuhan University/IBP, CAS

    • "Structure and dynamics of chromatin fiber in gene regulation and human diseases"
  • January 9: NAR Cancer Special Symposium

    • Ranjit S. Bindra - Yale University School of Medicine
    • Li Lan- Duke University School of Medicine
  • January 16: Rising STARs

    • Sarah Hengel- Tufts University, "The human Shu complex, an exciting regulator of RAD51 and RPA"
    • William Nathan- NIH/NCI, "Nucleotide exhaustion and DNA repair drive neuronal sensitivity to chemotherapy"
    • Sandra Segura-Bayona- Francis Crick Institute, "Loss of SLFN11 confers replication stress tolerance in ATRX deficient ALT cancers"
  • January 23: Lu Chen- Fox Chase Cancer Center

    • "How a Chromatin-bound RNA Body Protects Against Aging Hallmarks"
  • January 30: Sophie Polo- Epigenetics and Cell Fate Centre

    • "Epigenome maintenance in response to DNA damage"
  • February 6: Tony Cesare- CMRI

    • "Homologous recombination promotes mitotic death to suppress the innate immune response"
  • February 13: NAR Cancer Special Symposium

    • Kara A. Bernstein- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    • Dr. Joanna Loizou – Institute for Cancer Research (London)
  • February 20: Thomas A. Kunkel- NIEHS

    • "Studies of DNA Replication Fidelity"
  • February 27: Juan Lucas Argueso- Colorado State University

    • "Chromosomal Rearrangement Bursts"
  • March 6: Stefano Santaguida- University of Milan

    • "Mechanistic insights into the consequences of chromosome segregation errors on cell physiology"
  • March 13: NAR Cancer Special Symposium

    • Dale A. Ramsden- University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    • Katie Pawelczak- NERx Biosciences
  • March 20: Shailja Pathania- University of Massachusetts, Boston

    • "Key Drivers of Replication Stress-Induced Genomic Instability in BRCA2-Deficient Cells"
  • March 27: Rising STARs

    • Franz Meitinger- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, "Mitotic stress-mediated activation of the tumor suppressor p53"
    • Kavi Mehta- University of Wisconsin, "Strand-Specific Replication Coupled Repair"
    • Tianpeng Zhang- University of Virginia, "Profiling DNA damage response at Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres"

Future Webinars

Past Speakers