Meeting Program

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Sunday, March 27
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Vanderbilt
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Grand Ballroom B-C
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Matt Ridley, Blagdon Seaton Burn, UK Nature via Nurture
Monday, March 28
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom B-C
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Fetal Origins of Adult Disease Susceptibility Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Peter Gluckman, University of Auckland, New Zealand Epigenetic Mechanisms that Underpin Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases
	Ezra S. Susser, Columbia University, USA Famine, Epigenetics and the Risk of Schizophrenia
	Marcus Pembrey, University College London, UK Nature of Human Transgenerational Responses
	Robert A. Waterland, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Epigenetics: The Memory System for the Developmental Origins of Disease Susceptibility
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom B-C
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grand Ballroom B-C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grand Ballroom B-C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Epigenetic Mechanisms of Gene Regulation Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Ian Wood, University of Leeds, UK Chromatin Crosstalk in Development and Disease
	Joseph R. Ecker, The Salk Institute, USA Sequencing Epigenomes
	Victor V. Lobanenkov, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA CTCF Dysfunction, Epigenetic Deregulation and Cancer Susceptibility
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grand Ballroom B-C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom B-C
Tuesday, March 29
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom B-C
8:00 - 11:00 AM	In vitro Fertilization, Cloning and Stem Cells Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	James A. Thomson, Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin, USA Therapeutic Cloning and Stem Cell Development
	Lorraine Young, University of Nottingham, UK Genomic Plasticity and the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Susceptibility
	Jeanne F. Loring, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Cells
	Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, UK Epigenetics, Imprinting and Cell Fate Commitment
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom B-C
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grand Ballroom B-C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grand Ballroom B-C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Postnatal Epigenetic Programming of the Brain Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Canada Early Life Environment and the Epigenome
	Barry Keverne, University of Cambridge, UK Epigenetics, Brain Evolution and Behavior
	David Sweatt, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Regulation of Chromatin Structure in Memory Formation
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grand Ballroom B-C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom B-C
Wednesday, March 30
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom B-C
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Epigenetics and Complex Diseases Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Manel Esteller, IDIBELL, Spain Human Cancer Epigenetics
	Frederica P. Perera, Columbia University, USA Environmental Exposures, Epigenetics and Human Health
	Dana Dolinoy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA Complex Diseases: Epigenetic Manifestation of Environmental Exposures
	Cheryl L. Walker, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA Fetal and Early Postnatal Environmental Exposures and Female Reproductive Health Effects
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom B-C
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grand Ballroom B-C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grand Ballroom B-C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Emma Whitelaw, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Health and Disease
	Michael K. Skinner, Washington State University, USA Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance following Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors
	Douglas Ruden, Wayne State University, USA Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Drosophila
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grand Ballroom B-C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom B-C
Thursday, March 31
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom B-C
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Epigenetics and Neurological Disorders Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Art Petronis, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada Environmental Studies of Schizophrenia through the Prism of Epigenetics
	Janine M. LaSalle, University of California, Davis, USA Epigenetics and Autism
	Farah D. Lubin, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Protein Methylation in Memory Formation
	Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA HDACs, Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Foundation
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom B-C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Mammalian Evolution and Disease Susceptibility Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	David Haig, Harvard University, USA Transfers and Transitions: The Evolution of Human Life History
	Christopher Badcock, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK The Imprinted Brain: How Genes Set the Balance between Autism and Psychosis
	Randy L. Jirtle, Duke University Medical Center, USA Evolution of Genomic Imprinting
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Closing Remarks Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/27/2011	Grand Ballroom A
	Mark Rothstein, University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA Legal and Ethical Implications of Epigenetics
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grand Ballroom B-C
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Grand Ballroom B-C
Friday, April 1
	Departure
*=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

There are now compelling human epidemiological and animal experimental data that indicate the risk of developing adult-onset complex diseases and neurological disorders are influenced by persistent epigenetic adaptations in response to prenatal and early postnatal exposures to environmental factors. Epigenetics refers to heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the sequence of the DNA. The main components of the epigenetic code are DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs. The epigenetic programs in cells are normally faithfully reproduced during mitosis. Moreover, they can also be maintained during meiosis, resulting in epigenetic transgenerational disease inheritance, and potentially introducing phenotypic variation that is selected for in the evolution of new species. The objective of this conference is to provide evidence that environmental exposures during early development can alter the risk of developing medical conditions, such as asthma, autism, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and schizophrenia later in life by modifying the epigenome. Epigenetic research promises to markedly improve our ability to diagnosis, prevent, and treat the pathological conditions of humans; however, it also introduces unique legal and ethical issues. These will also be discussed.