Upcoming events
Watch this space for upcoming events in the Chatterjee lab.
Lab news and announcements
October 2020, Sai Shyam presented his work on circulating tumour cells at the New Zealand Society for Oncology (NZSO) annual conference.
October 2020, congratulations to Reema Waly (BBiomedSc(Hons)) and Frankie Day (BSc(Hons) in Genetics) who submitted their research dissertations.
July 2020, Suzan Almomani successfully defended her PhD thesis, DNA methylation in pre-eclampsia and healthy control placentas
June 2020, Drs Chatterjee and Rodger, in collaboration with Profs Mike Eccles, Bruce Baguley and Peter Shepherd, published a research article Genomic and signalling pathway characterization of the NZM panel of melanoma cell lines: A valuable model for studying the impact of genetic diversity in melanoma in the journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
May 2020, Dr Chatterjee and colleagues published a review article Promoter DNA Hypermethylation and Paradoxical Gene Activation in the CellPress journal Trends in Cancer
May 2020, The Chatterjee and Eccles labs farewell alumnus Antonio Ahn after he successfully completed all requirements for his PhD and has now taken up a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia
May 2020, Drs Chatterjee and Stockwell published an article Reawakening the Developmental Origins of Cancer Through Transposable Elements in the journal Frontiers in Oncology (in collaboration with Dr Erin Macaulay and Prof Mike Eccles)
April 2020, Drs Chatterjee and Rodger published a research paper EZH2 Cooperates with DNA Methylation to Downregulate Key Tumor Suppressors and IFN Gene Signatures in Melanoma in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (in collaboration with Dr Jessamy Tiffen, Prof Mike Eccles and Prof Peter Hersey)
April 2020, Drs Chatterjee and Rodger, in collaboration with Profs Greg Jones and Sally McCormick, published a research paper DNA methylation profiling identifies a high effect genetic variant for lipoprotein(a) levels in the journal Epigenetics
April 2020, Drs Chatterjee, Stockwell and Rodger published a research paper Extensive Inter-Cyst DNA Methylation Variation in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Revealed by Genome Scale Sequencing in the journal Frontiers in Genetics
March 2020, the 2nd EUG (Epigenetics User Group) Symposium was held at the Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin. Led by Dr Chatterjee, the Symposium brought together epigenetics researchers from across New Zealand and included talks by Associate Professor Elin Gray (Edith Cowan University, Perth) and Dr Felicity Newell (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane). The Symposium was preceded by a day of workshops on analysis of circulating tumour cells and of Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS).
In February 2020 we welcomed Reema Waly, who started a BBiomedSc(Hons), and Frankie Day who commenced a BSc(Hons) in Genetics
December 2019, congratulations to Rakesh Banerjee for winning a poster prize at the Maurice Wilkins Centre Future Science Day, held at Victoria University of Wellington
December 2019, a special EUG (Epigenetics User Group) meeting was held to host a discussion with visiting academic, Professor Susan Clark, an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Genome and Epigenetics Division at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia
November 2019, Dr Chatterjee presented at the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) annual meeting in Banff, Canada
September 2019, Dr Chatterjee and lab alumnus Jim Smith gave talks on CRISPR-based methylation editing at a Maurice Wilkins Centre workshop, which was part of Queenstown Research Week
August 2019, Dr Chatterjee presented at a series of Ministry of Education New Zealand guest lectures in India
July 2019, Dr Rodger attended the Oz Single Cell meeting (Australian Cellular Panomics Consortium) in Melbourne, Australia
June/July 2019, Dr Chatterjee attended a CSHL course (Statistical Methods for Functional Genomics) and presented on Epigenetic Drivers of Cancer Metastasis at Weil Cornell Medicine in New York, USA
May 2019, Sai Shyam presented a poster on Circulating Tumour Cells as a Model to Identify an Epigenetic Signature of Metastasis at the Dunedin School of Medicine Postgraduate poster competition
April 2019, Dr Chatterjee, in collaboration with Dr Roshni Roy, published an article Genome-wide miRNA methylome analysis in oral cancer: possible biomarkers associated with patient survivalin the journal Epigenomics, which received significant media attention
April 2019, the Chatterjee lab officially became a member of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC)
April 2019, Dr Chatterjee presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
March 2019, Antonio Ahn presented at the Epigenetics and Human Disease Keystone Conference in Banff Canada, generously supported by a Claude McCarthy Fellowship
March 2019, Dr Chatterjee and Dr Rodger, in collaboration with Prof Mike Eccles and Prof Peter Hersey, published a review article Targeting DNA Methylation and EZH2 Activity to Overcome Melanoma Resistance to Immunotherapy in the Cell Press journal, Trends in Immunology
In February 2019 we welcomed Suzan Almomani, who started as an Assistant Research Fellow, and Arthur Urbano, who commenced work for his BBiomedSc(Hons) in the Chatterjee lab
January 2019, congratulations to Jim Smith on submitting his BMedSc(Hons) thesis on targeted epigenomic editing
At the end of 2018 we farewell a valued member of the team - Assistant Research Fellow and baker extraordinaire, Anna Leichter
In December 2018, we welcome Sai Shyam as he starts work on his PhD in the Chatterjee lab
Congratulations to Jim Smith BMedSc(Hons) on receiving an Otago Medical School scholarship to perform targeted epigenomic editing experiments in our lab
- Dr Chatterjee and his colleagues' work was highlighted and covered as key papers five times by the international forum Epigenie. Read or download the articles at the links below
Our laboratory in the media
2019
- August: Dr Rodger and Dr Chatterjee published research on epigenetic markers of cancer metastasis in the journal Clinical Epigenetics. Read a representative report on Otago Daily Times website.
- April: Dr Chatterjee, in collaboration with Dr Roshni Roy, published an article Genome-wide miRNA methylome analysis in oral cancer: possible biomarkers associated with patient survival in the journal Epigenomics, which received significant media attention
2018
- June: Several media outlets featured research by the Chatterjee and Eccles groups on how epigenetics can influence the response to cancer immunotherapy
Read a representative article on international website ScienceDaily - January: The Sunday Star Times named Dr Chatterjee as one of the ten New Zealanders to watch out for this year
Read the article on the Sunday Star Times website
2017
- 9 October: Dr Chatterjee was interviewed on Mike Hosking's Newstalk ZB breakfast show about his recent research on how cancer spreads
Listen at the Newstalk ZB website - 9 October: Rutherford Fellowship research on cancer metastasis was covered in several media outlets
Read a representative report on the New Zealand Herald website
2016
- December: The work done by the Chatterjee and Eccles groups on the epigenetics of cancer metastasis was highlighted by several media outlets worldwide (in reference to an article published in Oncotarget in December 2016)
Read or download the full article at the Oncotarget website
Read a representative report on Otago Daily Times website - 25 September: Dr Chatterjee was interviewed by Southern Television (Channel 39) for the programme Melanoma, the burning issue
Stream "Melanoma, the burning issue" on the Southern Television website (29 minutes, 30 seconds) - 13 July: Dr Chatterjee's research on zebrafish epigenetics was highlighted in EpiBeat
Read the article on the EpiBeat website
2015
- Dr Chatterjee received the Illumina Emerging Researcher Award
Read the article on the Otago Daily times website
2012-2014
- 2012: Customer success story on work done for Agilent on DNA methylation in Professor Ian Morison's laboratory
Read or download the story on the Agilent website (PDF 408 kb) - 22 February 2012: Dr Chatterjee's work was highlighted in the Editor's Choice article on the genomeweb blog
Read the article on the genomeweb website - 8 February 2012: Dr Chatterjee was interviewed by Radio One (Dunedin) on the postgraduate show Rush Hour to talk about epigenetics and inter-individual variation of DNA methylation
(This interview is no longer available online)