User:Nizar Batada
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Nizar Batada
Ontario Institute of Cancer Research
101 College St, Suite 800,
MaRS Center, South Tower,
Toronto, Ontario M5G 3A0
fax: 416-977-1118
http://www.oicr.on.ca/research/batada.htm
Administrative Assistant:
Stacey Quinn
tel: 416-673-8519
stacey.quinn "at" oicr.on.ca
Biography
2008-- | Principal Investigator, Cancer Genomics, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research |
2007--2008 | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (George Church, advisor) |
2004--2006 | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto (Mike Tyers, advisor) and Department of Biology, University of Bath (Laurence Hurst, advisor) |
2004 | PhD Biophysics, Stanford University (Michael Levitt, advisor) |
Research interests
- Understand how chromatin states relate to gene expression
- How epigenomes of various stem cells change during differentiation; and how the characteristic tissue-specific epigenomes change during reprogramming
- How chromatin modification (DNA methylation and histone modification) are established and maintained; in particular identification of genomic features that allow prediction of epigenetically labile genes
- Contribution of chromatin state to variability or "noise" in transcription
- Computational analysis of epigenetics modification patterns
- Genome organization and evolution