7.342:Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic	Assignment
September 7	Matt/Roshan	Introduction
September 14	Roshan	Chromatin Functions to Define Cell State	Questions
September 21	Matt	Chromatin Structure and Discovery of Chromatin Modifying Enzymes	Questions
September 28	Matt	Methylation and the Emergence of the "Histone Code"	Questions
October 5	Matt	Heritable Gene Expression via Epigenetic Modification of Chromatin	Questions
October 12	Roshan	Regulators of Pluripotency and Differentiation of Stem Cells	Questions
October 19		Tour of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Laboratories
October 26	Matt	Regulation of Early Development by Polycomb Proteins	Questions
November 2	Roshan	Master Regulators of Differentiation: The Story of MyoD	Questions
November 9	Roshan	Transdifferentiation, Dedifferentiation, and the Adoption of Alternate Cell Fates	Questions / Discuss Proposals
November 16	Roshan	Chromatin Modifications during Development	Questions / Proposals Due
November 23		Thanksgiving!	Eat Turkey
November 30	Matt	When Regulators go Bad: Misregulation of Chromatin Modifiers in Cancer	Questions
December 7	Matt/Roshan	Oral Presentation of Research Proposals	Presentations