Join us for our upcoming webinar: New Frontiers in Epigenomic Analysis - from Probing Disease Progression to Enhancing Sequencing Methodologies

View this email as a web page here.    Please join us for our upcoming webinar entitled: New Frontiers in Epigenomic Analysis – from Probing Disease Progression to Enhancing Sequencing Methodologies Insight into epigenetic modifications has the capability to elucidate mechanisms governing disease progression and resistance, enabling the identification of biomarkers that can provide diagnostic insight and serve as targets for novel classes of therapeutics. Technological advances have facilitated broad profiling of epigenetic modifications across the genome, while allowing application to higher numbers of samples. This webinar will include presentations and a panel discussion and will cover state-of-the-art sample preparation techniques that leverage sequencing readouts for genome-wide surveying across a range of epigenetic factors, including transcription factor binding sites, histone modifications, chromatin organization, nucleosome mapping, and methylation profiling. The application of these technologies in translational research settings to gain novel insight into the role of epigenetic factors in cancer will also be explored. Please also join us after the presentations for an opportunity to engage in a panel discussion with our speakers. Wednesday, October 13th 1:00 PM EST Register Here Leveraging epigenomic tools in technically challenging scenarios Rohit Chandwani, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine The organization of chromatin is central to nuclear processes of replication, repair, and transcription. Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have enabled characterization of epigenomic states at unprecedented scale and resolution. Every layer of organization from histone modification to nucleosome occupancy to both short- and long-range chromosomal interactions can now be ascertained more readily. However, the deployment of these tools has been uneven across tissue types, cell numbers, and form of tissue storage. Herein we describe our efforts to bring epigenomic tools to the most recalcitrant of starting inputs as part of our investigations in cancer epigenetics. Next generation genomic mapping with CUTANA CUT&RUN Michael-Christopher Keogh, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer, Epicypher Inc. EpiCypher has pioneered the manufacture of semi-synthetic nucleosomes containing fully defined histone post-translational modifications (PTMs). These represent a physiological target for chromatin studies and have now been used for multiple approaches, including dissecting epigenetic regulators (the dCypher platform) and standardizing ChIP from antibody characterization to normalization (the SNAP platform). CUTANA (our expansion of the CUT&RUN / CUT+Tag approaches) is the next horizon for genomic mapping, and dramatically increases sensitivity with reduced cell numbers and sequencing depth. Further this approach is now being increasingly controlled with nucleosome standards. The insights gained from each platform will be discussed. Functional epigenomics of cancer progression Kunal Rai, M.D., Anderson Cancer Center Epigenomic aberrations have emerged to be a key feature associated with cancer progression, however, whether these events could be utilized for personalized medicine is less well understood. My lab focuses on comprehensive epigenomic analyses from patient samples using high-throughput nano ChIP-Seq followed by chromatin state determination, Hi-C/HiChIP-based chromatin structure profiling as well as single-cell epigenomic approaches. We have recently shown that epigenome content of tumors can be exploited to predict immunotherapy response in melanoma and to stratify patients into groups which respond to specific targeted therapies in colorectal cancers. Finally, we have identified novel epigenomic subgroups in pan-cancer chromatin state studies that display specific biological insights and responses to targeted therapies. NEBNext® Enzymatic Methyl-seq (EM-seq™): A high-performance alternative to bisulfite sequencing for methylome analysis Chaithanya Ponnaluri, Ph.D., New England Biolabs The cytosine modifications 5¬methylcytosine and 5¬hydroxymethylcytosine are important regulatory marks and their identification within genomes is essential in understanding gene regulation. Bisulfite sequencing (BS) has been the gold standard for detecting these modifications, however, the chemical bisulfite reaction damages and fragments DNA, resulting in smaller insert sizes and coverage bias in sequencing data. To overcome these drawbacks, we developed a sequencing method called NEBNext Enzymatic Methyl-seq (EM-seq) for the Illumina platform. This method is exclusively enzyme based and is less damaging to DNA than bisulfite conversion enabling longer insert sizes, lower duplication rates and minimal GC bias. 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