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The Wagnon laboratory is interested in understanding genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying DEE and identifying new treatment strategies for these severe disorders. Our current studies focus on DEE caused by variants in the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel gene SCN8A. We are developing mouse models of SCN8A encephalopathy to study pathogenesis of seizures and related comorbidities. A second focus of the lab is to investigate the role of regulation of gene expression in seizure pathology. 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During this time, patterns of brain development and life history changed to triple the number of neurons produced prenatally, extend synaptic plasticity through a prolonged phase of development, and restructure connectivity between brain regions. At the same time tens of millions of mutations accumulated as fixed changes in the human genome through the processes of selection and drift. A portion of this new genomic information guides the development of uniquely human traits and contributes to disease vulnerabilities shared by all humans. However, connecting human-specific mutations to recently evolved traits remains a major challenge because we lack experimental systems for comparative and functional studies of great ape cortical development. To identify genomic differences underlying unique features or vulnerabilities of the human brain, we are incorporating advances in single cell genomics and genome engineering with great ape cerebral organoid models of brain development. 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Along with other layers of gene regulation, chromatin modification plays a key role in this cellular specialization. Our research focuses on histone modifications such as lysine methylation, and the proteins that recognize these modifications, which are often referred to as chromatin \u2018readers\u2019. Chromatin readers can recruit and act as part of diverse chromatin modifying protein complexes to mediate the silencing of many genes with important functions in cell proliferation and differentiation. We will use a combination of genetic, biochemical and genome-wide sequencing approaches to investigate the striking regulatory complexity of chromatin readers. 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Neel, MD, PhD Lecture in Human Genetics & Award", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"James V. Neel, MD, PhD Lecture in Human Genetics & Award: presenting Eric S. Lander, PhD, Professor of Biology & Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director Emeritus at the Broad Institute of MIT", "event_subtitle":"presenting Eric S. Lander, PhD, Professor of Biology & Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director Emeritus at the Broad Institute of MIT", "event_type":"Conference \/ Symposium", "event_type_id":"5", "description":"Join us as Eric S. Lander, PhD, Professor of Biology & Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director Emeritus at the Broad Institute of MIT, presents their research at The Department of Human Genetics 25th Annual James V. Neel Lecture. We will have presentations from our student awardees, a poster session, and a light reception. \r\n\r\n12:00-2:00 Award Presentations & Keynote Seminar | 1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB\r\n2:00-3:00 Reception & Poster Session | ABC Seminar Rooms, BSRB\r\n\r\nReady to share your research? Present your poster at the 25th Annual Neel Lectureship. Submit your poster information no later than Friday, May 8, 2026 @midnight.\r\n\r\n12:00 \u2013 Lectureship Begins\r\n12:15 \u2013 Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (PhD)\r\n12:30 \u2013 Graduate Student Neel Award Presentation (MS\/GC)\r\n1:00 \u2013 Keynote Address\r\n2:00 \u2013 Reception Begins\/ Poster Session Begins\r\n3:00 \u2013 Conclude", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"143365-21892954@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/143365", "building_id":"1005037", "building_name":"Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building", "campus_maps_id":"509", "room":"1020 Kahn Auditorium, BSRB & ABC Seminar Rooms", "location_name":"Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Basic Science","basic sciences","biolgical chemistry","biological chemistry","biological science","Biology","Biosciences","Bsbsigns","cancer","Chemistry","Discussion","epilepsy","Faculty","Free","genetics","genome","genomics","human genetics","Human Genetics, Genetics, Epidemiology","Information and Technology","lecture","Life Science","lifton","Medicine","Natural Sciences","neel","neurological disease","Postdoctoral Research Fellows","Public Health","Public Policy","Reception","research","Science","seminar","sodium channel","symposium"], "website":"https:\/\/medschool.umich.edu\/events\/james-v-neel-md-phd-lecture-human-genetics-award\/2026-05-22", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Department of Human Genetics", "group_id":"1137", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21892954 } , "143395-21893072": { "datetime_modified":"20260107T120530", "datetime_start":"20260914T110000", "datetime_end":"20260914T120000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-14", "date_end":"2026-09-14", "time_start":"11:00:00", "time_end":"12:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Human Genetics Research Seminar Series", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Human Genetics Research Seminar Series: presenting Yang Shi, PhD Professor of Epigenetics Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford University, Oxford, England", "event_subtitle":"presenting Yang Shi, PhD Professor of Epigenetics Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford University, Oxford, England", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"Monday, September 14, 2026\r\n11:00am - 12:00pm\r\nLocation TBD\r\n\r\nYang Shi, PhD\r\nProfessor of Epigenetics\r\nLudwig Institute for Cancer Research\r\nOxford University, Oxford, England\r\n\u201cSeminar Title TBD\u201d\r\n\r\nHosted By: Shigeki Iwase, PhD, Department of Human Genetics\r\n___\r\nBefore joining Ludwig Oxford in 2020, I was Professor of Cell Biology and C. H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. I received my PhD from New York University and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. I joined Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and was appointed a Professor of Pathology in 2004. In 2009 I joined the Newborn Medicine Division of Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.\r\n\r\nI am interested in identifying key epigenetic regulators in cancer, elucidating their mechanism of action and providing the conceptual basis for translating our basic findings to the clinic via the development of new therapeutic strategies. With the discovery of the first histone methyl eraser, LSD1, in 2004, our group demonstrated that histone methylation is dynamically regulated, which overturned the long-held dogma that such modifications were static and irreversible. We have also discovered many additional histone demethylases with different specificities, and novel readers, including those that specifically recognize unmodified lysine and arginine and suggest that the unmodified states are not simply a ground neutral state of epigenetic information but rather likely code for epigenetic information as modified states. Importantly, many of these chromatin enzymes and readers have since been implicated in various types of human cancers, indicating an important role of chromatin regulation in tumorigenesis.\r\n\r\nMore recently, we have also been studying RNA modifications and how they impact gene expression regulation. In many ways this exciting field parallels the early days of chromatin biochemistry and biology, i.e., the nature and the biological and pathological functions of RNA modifications, as well as the enzymes responsible for writing, erasing and reading them, are just beginning to be understood.\r\n\r\nAt Ludwig Oxford, my lab is focusing on two questions. First, how to convert \u201ccold tumors to \u201chot\u201d and how to sustain durable responses to cancer immune checkpoint blockade therapy. 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He received a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley (1998), and worked as a technician for 2 years in Sarah Hake's plant genetics group at the USDA\/ARS Plant Gene Expression Center. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2003), where his work in Shiv Grewal's laboratory established the first direct link between RNA interference and chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. As a postdoc with Michael Wigler (2004) and independent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow (2004-2007), Dr. Hall used microarray technologies and mouse strain genealogies to conduct the first systematic study of DNA copy number variation hotspots. As a faculty member at the University of Virginia (2007-2014), Washington University (2014-2020) and Yale (2020-present), his work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of genome variation in mammals, with an increasing focus on computational methods development and human genetics. His group has developed bioinformatics tools for variant detection, variant interpretation, sequence alignment, data processing, and data integration. He has led genome-wide studies of human genome variation, heritable gene expression variation, human genetic disorders, tumor evolution, mouse strain variation, genome stability in reprogrammed stem cells, and single-neuron somatic mosaicism in the human brain. Dr. Hall's work has been featured in Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year (2003 & 2007), the NIMH Director's \"Ten Best of 2013\" and The Scientist (2013), and he has received several prestigious awards including the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2003), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (2006), the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2009), and the March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Research Award (2010). He has also served as an Associate Editor at Genome Research (2009-2014) and Genes, Genomes and Genetics (2011-2018).\r\n\r\nMost recently, Dr. Hall has played a leadership role in several large collaborative projects funded by NIH\/NHGRI including the Centers for Common Disease Genomics, the AnVIL cloud-based data repository and analysis platform, and the Human Pangenome Project. 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