Transcription webinar — April 2026

The monthly ASBMB Transcription Webinars aim to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration among researchers in the fields of transcription, chromatin and epigenetics. Each session will feature presentations from two or three leading experts who will share their latest research on transcriptional regulation by chromatin and RNA polymerase.

The series is organized by Kai Ge, chief of the Adipocyte Biology & Gene Regulation Section at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and Yan Jessie Zhang, distinguished professor in biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.

Speaker

Chromatin deregulation, a cancer driver
Greg Wang, Duke University

A discussion of the roles for specific amino acid patterns within the intrinsically disordered region (IDR) in the transcriptional regulation.

N.B.: Asifa Akhtar's presentation on epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation in health and disease was not recorded.