Chromatin and epigenetics: from mechanism to function

Topics

• Chromatin dynamics
• Epigenomics and single cell approaches
• Histone, RNA and DNA modifications
• Shaping chromatin with ncRNA
• Epigenetic phenomena

Conference chairs

• Robert Schneider (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
• Maria Elena Torres-Padilla (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)

Keynote speaker

• John Gurdon (The Gurdon Institute, UK)
  The mode of action of transcription factors in oocytes
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Confirmed speakers

• Karen Adelman (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US)
  Interplay between Pol II elongation and chromatin structure at coding and non-coding RNA loci
• Adrian Bird (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  The influence of DNA sequence on the epigenome
• Bradley Cairns (Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, US)
  Regulation of nucleosome ejection by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes
• Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, France)
  Polycomb proteins and 3D epigenetic regulation of development
• Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland)
  Ways to silence genes and repeats
• Martin Hrabě de Angelis (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
• Stefan Knapp (University of Oxford, UK)
• Philipp Korber (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany)
  Nucleosome remodeling enzymes specify nucleosome positioning
• Tony Kouzarides (The Gurdon Institute, UK)
• Danny Reinberg (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US)
• Yang Shi (Boston Children’s Hospital, US)
  ​Histone methylation regulation, recognition and link to human disease
• Azim Surani (University of Cambridge, UK)
  Specification and programming of the human germline
• Didier Trono (EPFL, Switzerland)
  The endovirome, its domesticators and the genesis of human-specific transcriptional networks
• Alexander van Oudenaarden (Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands)
  Revealing novel cell types, cell-cell interactions, and cell lineages by single-cell sequencing
• Jerry Workman (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, US)
  Chromatin-modifying complexes that function in transcription, signaling, metabolism and development