Diabetes and Epigenetics (Jean-Sébastien Annicotte)
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disease, which is caused by the failure of beta-cells in the pancreas and insulin resistance in peripheral tissue and characterized by high glucose levels ...
4 Apr 201918min
Epigenetics and X-inactivation (Edith Heard)
In the seventh Episode of Active Motif's Epigenetics Podcast our host Dr. Stefan Dillinger sat down with Prof. Edith Heard, designated Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EM...
21 Nov 201835min
Chromatin Organization (Susan Gasser)
In the sixth Episode of Active Motif's Epigenetics Podcast our host Dr. Stefan Dillinger sits down with Prof. Susan Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, to talk about her res...
15 Okt 201833min
Epigenomics (Henk Stunnenberg)
In the fifth Episode of the Epigenetics Podcast of Active Motif our host Dr. Stefan Dillinger sits down with Prof. Henk Stunnenberg, full professor and head of the Department of Molecular Biology at t...
12 Sep 201833min
Aging and Epigenetics (Peter Tessarz)
The aging population and challenges that arise from aging are one of the great scientific challenges of this time. In the fourth episode of the Epigenetics Podcast from Active Motif, our host Dr. Stef...
3 Jan 201830min
Cancer and Epigenetics (David Jones)
Cancer has become one of the most dangerous diseases of the aging population of industrialized countries. Finding tools to fight cancer is hard, because Cancer presents itself as highly heterogeneous,...
31 Okt 201732min
The Nucleosome (Ada and Don Olins)
The Nucleosome is the basic building unit of chromatin. It consists out of 147 base pairs of double stranded DNA wrapped around the Histone core octamer that consists out of 2 copies of each dimer of ...
11 Sep 201734min
Multiple Challenges in ChIP (Adam Blattler)
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) was first developed in Drosophila, where interactions of RNA Pol II with genes were investigated (Mol. Cell. Biol. August 1985 vol. 5 no. 8 2009-2018). Then, in a ...
9 Jun 201735min
