UI COM Welcomes Dr. Anjana Rao for Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Introduction
On Tuesday, September 30, the College of Medicine was honored to host Anjana Rao, PhD for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture series. Her presentation, "Regulation of DNA and Histone Methylation, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Cancer" focused on the role of epigenetic regulators in gene expression, including the enzymatic activities of the three Ten-Eleven-Translocation (TET) proteins. TET proteins regulate gene expression and enhancer activity and play a central role in cell lineage specification, embryonic development, neuronal function, and cancer. Dr. Rao is a professor in the Division of Signaling and Gene Expression and the Pfizer Endowed Chair in Cancer Immunology and Oncology at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is a leader of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
A recording of Dr. Rao's lecture is available here.
Prior to delivering her lecture, Dr. Rao met with students for an informal Q&A, sharing insights from her accomplishments in research and education.
The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series was launched in the fall of 2022 in order to highlight research topics that integrate efforts by multidisciplinary teams.