Fei Li Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University Fei Li is an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. He then conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and University of California at Berkeley. He has been with the Department of Biology at New York University since 2010. He was named a Pew scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 2013 by the Pew Charitable Trust. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental principles of epigenetic regulation, especially how specific epigenetic states are established and inherited, with the ultimate aim of offering novel strategies for diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with epigenetic dysregulation. His laboratory takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining genetics, state-of-the-art imaging, biochemistry, structural biology and genomics. His research is funded by National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation. Participant In: Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more » Epigenetics at Work Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck might today say, echoing the words of Mark Twain, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Lamarck’s theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, once derided as “soft inheritance,” has been revived through the field of epigenetics: the study of alterations in gene expression or phenotype caused by mechanisms other than primary… read more »
Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics Through 2015 Past Event The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality; The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The… read more »
Epigenetics at Work Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck might today say, echoing the words of Mark Twain, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Lamarck’s theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, once derided as “soft inheritance,” has been revived through the field of epigenetics: the study of alterations in gene expression or phenotype caused by mechanisms other than primary… read more »