Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease

Shohei Koide Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago

Shohei Koide is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. He is also a member of University of Chicago Cancer Research Center and a fellow of the Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology of the University of Chicago. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he trained with T. Ohta and S. Yokoyama. After postdoctoral training as a Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California under the mentorship of P. E. Wright, he started his independent career at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York. His research integrates molecular evolution, structural biology and protein biophysics to understand fundamental mechanisms of molecular recognition and to develop synthetic proteins as powerful tools for research, medicine and biotechnology.

Talk Title: "Synthetic binding proteins: new tools for epigenetics"