Molecular Biology of Long Non-coding RNAs

Ahmad Khalil earned his PhD at the University of Florida School of Medicine where he discovered key epigenetic mechanisms that regulate gene expression during mammalian meiosis. Subsequently, he joined the Scripps Research Institute as a postdoctoral fellow (2006-2008) and studied the role of long non-coding RNAs in neurological disorders. In 2008, Dr Khalil moved to Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute where he played a key role in discovering long intergenic non-coding (linc)RNAs in human cells, and demonstrated that lincRNAs play critical roles in epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In 2010, Dr Khalil joined the faculty at CWRU and his lab continues to study the role of lincRNAs in human health and disease.

Preface.- Chromatin regulation by long non-coding RNAs.- Regulation of Eukaryotic Cell Differentiation by Long Noncoding RNAs.- Roles of long non-coding RNAs in X-chromosome inactivation.- Roles of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Genomic Imprinting.- Dysregulation of long noncoding RNAs in human disease.- Functions of long non-coding RNAs in non-mammalian systems.- Emerging technologies to study long non-coding RNAs.- Long non coding RNAs and nuclear body formation and function.- The role of long non-coding RNAs in immunity.- Novel methods to study long non-coding RNAs.- OMICs of long non-coding RNAs.- Cancer epigenetics and long non-coding RNAs.- Roles of long non-coding RNAs in human development.- Index