Richard A. Katz
Department of Cancer Epigenetics
Fox Chase Cancer Center
United States of America
Biography
Richard A. Katz,Educational Background: PhD, Microbiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, 1983. BS, Biology, Summa cum laude, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1975 .
Research Interest
Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer and Normal Cells. The role of the nuclear lamina in epigenetic control. High throughput siRNA screening to identify epigenetic silencing factor networks. Epigenetic plasticity of melanoma cells. Epigenetic silencing as an antiviral response. Functional analyses of candidate breast cancer genes identified by Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) and Differential Allelic-Specific Expression (DASE).
Publications
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Poleshko, A., & Katz, R. A. (2014). Specifying peripheral heterochromatin during nuclear lamina reassembly. Nucleus, 5(1), 32-39.
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Poleshko, A., Kossenkov, A. V., Shalginskikh, N., Pecherskaya, A., Pecherskaya, A., Einarson, M. B., ... & Katz, R. A. (2014). Human factors and pathways essential for mediating epigenetic gene silencing. Epigenetics, 9(9), 1280-1289.
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Peretz, Y., Wu, H., Patel, S., Bellacosa, A., & Katz, R. A. (2015). Inhibitor of DNA Binding 4 (ID4) is highly expressed in human melanoma tissues and may function to restrict normal differentiation of melanoma cells. PloS one, 10(2), e0116839.
