NARILIS-ILEE lunch seminar | Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee, University of Otago, New Zealand

  • When Jun 26, 2025 from 12:45 AM to 02:00 PM (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)
  • Where UNamur, L12 auditorium
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We are pleased to invite you to a seminar given by

Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee

Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand

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Aniruddha Chatterjee is the head of the Epigenetics, Disease and Phenotype laboratory. They use bioinformatics and experimental approaches to study epigenetic changes in different cellular contexts to achieve a better understanding of the mechanism of disease in cancer. They aim to use these discoveries to develop biomarkers for specific disease states. Read more

His seminar is entitled:

Charting the DNA methylome landscape in cancer, chronic disease and phenotype

Our team has developed some of the first pipelines for genome-scale DNA methylation analysis. Our work has revealed aberrant methylation and expression patterns in several cancer types and revealed new mechanism of epigenetic regulation in cancer cells. We are now applying cutting-edge whole genome scale DNA methylation analysis in tissues as well as well as in cell free DNA (epigenetic liquid biopsy) and epigenetic editing platforms to investigate clinically relevant biomedical questions in cancer (for example, methylation map of colorectal, prostate, lung cancer and pancreatic cancer patients). Our work in epigenetic editing has implication in revealing causal function and new epigenetic regulation. In this talk, I will present the key findings from some of our works over the years and also elaborate on some recent and future directions in understanding the role of DNA methylation events in cancer metastasis, early detection, and treatment monitoring in solid cancers and also in chronic diseases and phenotype.

Invited by Prof. Frédéric Silvestre, UNamur, URBE

Frédéric visited Otago University last November to meet with Aniruddha and other collaboration partners. Further cooperation is possible, supported by the partnership agreement between Otago University and UNamur and the Erasmus+ International Mobility Exchange fellowship.