Active Motif's Podcast

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Dr. Chuan He, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago, to talk about his work on the influence of dynamic RNA methylation on gene expression. RNA methylation is an important biological process, and cellular RNA methylation levels can have profound impacts on normal cellular differentiation and cancer cell proliferation. Dr. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2000 and went on to do his postdoctoral work at Harvard University. He then became Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 2002, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and in 2014 he became the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.  From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago. Chuan He's current research focuses on understanding the reversible RNA modification m6A. This modification was discovered in the 1980s, but work from Dr. He's laboratory s