MBG Seminar Series | Breaking Barriers: How ZFP661 Promotes Protocadherin Expression Diversity and Big Brains in Mammals by Permeabilizing CTCF Barriers to Cohesion

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Todd Macfarlan, head of the Section on Mammalian Development and Evolution at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Division of Developmental Biology, will give a talk titled "Breaking Barriers: How ZFP661 Promotes Protocadherin Expression Diversity and Big Brains in Mammals by Permeabilizing CTCF Barriers to Cohesion" as a Molecular Biology & Genetics Seminar.

In his role, Macfarlan explores the impact of endogenous retroviruses and their KRAB-zinc finger protein controllers on embryonic development and on the evolution of new traits in mammals.