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Epigenetics, Development and Human Disease
Organizer(s): Anne Ferguson-Smith and Steven Henikoff
Date: January 05 - 10, 2009
Location: Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, CO, USA
Supported by the Directors' Fund
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Summary of Meeting:
This meeting aims to provide a stimulating forum for exploring the epigenetic control of genome function illustrated through the regulation of a variety of biological processes in a range of model organisms. The role of factors influencing chromatin organization and chromosome architecture, and the dynamic changes in epigenetic state that regulate development, are two well-established but fast-moving areas that will be covered. The dynamic nature of epigenetic states renders them both adaptable and vulnerable; this will be explored in sessions considering the influence of the environment on epigenetic control, and the causes and consequences of epigenetic change in disease. We anticipate that the data presented will allow evolutionary insights and functional comparison of epigenetic mechanisms in different organisms and systems, resulting in the integration of ideas to generate new concepts and a deeper understanding in this field.
Scholarship Deadline: September 15 2008
Discounted Abstract Deadline: September 15 2008
Abstract Deadline: October 8 2008
Discounted Registration Deadline: November 5 2008
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by:
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Program
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Monday, January 05
| 3:00PM - 7:30PM
Registration
Room: Foyer
Monday, January 05
| 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Refreshments
Room: Foyer
Monday, January 05
| 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Keynote Address
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 3
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
, University of Cambridge, UK
Opening and Welcoming Greeting
Monday, January 05
| 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Keynote Address
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 3
*
Steven Henikoff
, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Monday, January 05
| 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Keynote Address
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 3
Huntington F. Willard
, Duke University, USA
Epigenetics in Complex Genomes: What's the Genome Do?
Monday, January 05
| 8:30PM - 9:30PM
Orientation for New Attendees and New Investigators
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Keystone Symposia's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Andy Robertson, to lead discussion in a 'What to Expect during your Attendance' for interested delegates.
Tuesday, January 06
| 7:00AM - 8:00AM
Breakfast
Room: Summit Gallery
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 7
*
Barbara J. Meyer
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 7
Bradley R. Cairns
, HHMI/University of Utah, USA
DNA Methylation Dynamics in Zebrafish Embryos
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 7
Steven Henikoff
, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Histone Variants and Chromatin Dynamics
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 7
Jessica K. Tyler
, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Novel Roles for Core Histone Acetylation on H3 lysine 56 in Longevity and Tumorigenesis
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 7
Geneviève Almouzni
, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
During Cell Cycle - Challenges of DNA Replication and Repair
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 6 of 7
Petra Hajkova
, Imperial College London, UK
Short Talk: Mechanistic Aspects of DNA Demethylation in Mouse Development
Tuesday, January 06
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Chromatin Dynamics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 7 of 7
Craig S. Pikaard
, HHMI/Indiana University, USA
Short Talk: Plant RNA Polymerases IV and V: Subunit Structures and Modes of Action in RNA-Directed DNA Methylation
Tuesday, January 06
| 9:20AM - 9:40AM
Coffee Break
Room: Foyer
Tuesday, January 06
| 11:15AM - 11:15AM
On Own for Lunch
Tuesday, January 06
| 11:15AM - 1:00PM
Poster Setup
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Tuesday, January 06
| 1:00PM - 10:00PM
Poster Viewing
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Tuesday, January 06
| 4:30PM - 5:00PM
Coffee Available
Room: Foyer
Tuesday, January 06
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Functional Organization of the Nucleus
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 5
* Amanda G. Fisher
, Imperial College London, UK
Tuesday, January 06
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Functional Organization of the Nucleus
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 5
Jeannie T. Lee
, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA
Imprinted X Chromosome Inactivation
Tuesday, January 06
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Functional Organization of the Nucleus
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 5
Gary Karpen
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
DNA Repair in Heterochromatin
Tuesday, January 06
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Functional Organization of the Nucleus
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 5
Peter Fraser
, Florida State University, USA
The Role of the Air Non-Coding RNA in Gene Silencing
Tuesday, January 06
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Functional Organization of the Nucleus
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 5
Jane A. Skok
, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Short Talk: Recombinase-Dependent Homologous Pairing of Ig Alleles: A Novel Regulatory Aspect of Allelic Exclusion
Tuesday, January 06
| 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Social Hour with Lite Bites
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Tuesday, January 06
| 7:30PM - 10:00PM
Poster Session 1
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Wednesday, January 07
| 7:00AM - 8:00AM
Breakfast
Room: Summit Gallery
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 7
*
Geneviève Almouzni
, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 7
William G. Kelly
, Emory University, USA
Chromatin Remodeling and Erasure during C. elegans Germline Specification
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 7
Vincenzo Pirrotta
, Rutgers University, USA
Alternative Chromatin States of Polycomb Target Genes
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 7
Barbara J. Meyer
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Targeting X-Chromosome Repression
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 7
Asifa Akhtar
, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany
Dosage Compensation
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 6 of 7
Sam Schoenmakers
, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
Short Talk: Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation in the Female Germline
Wednesday, January 07
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Long-Range Epigenetic Control during Development
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 7 of 7
Patrick J. E. C. Wijchers
, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Short Talk: Sexual Dimorphisms in Mammals
Wednesday, January 07
| 9:20AM - 9:40AM
Coffee Break
Room: Foyer
Wednesday, January 07
| 11:15AM - 11:15AM
On Own for Lunch
Wednesday, January 07
| 11:15AM - 1:00PM
Poster Setup
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Wednesday, January 07
| 1:00PM - 10:00PM
Poster Viewing
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Wednesday, January 07
| 4:30PM - 5:00PM
Coffee Available
Room: Foyer
Wednesday, January 07
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Integrated Epigenetic Mechanisms
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 5
* William G. Kelly
, Emory University, USA
Wednesday, January 07
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Integrated Epigenetic Mechanisms
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 5
Robert A. Martienssen
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Copying and Reprogramming of Heterochromatin with RNAi
Wednesday, January 07
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Integrated Epigenetic Mechanisms
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 5
Jonathan I. Gent
, University of Georgia, USA
Short Talk: A Small RNA Mediated, Paternal Contribution to C. elegans Embryogenesis?
Wednesday, January 07
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Integrated Epigenetic Mechanisms
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 5
Steven E. Jacobsen
, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis
Wednesday, January 07
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Integrated Epigenetic Mechanisms
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 5
Timothy H. Bestor
, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Interactions between DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications in Mammals
Wednesday, January 07
| 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Social Hour with Lite Bites
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Wednesday, January 07
| 7:30PM - 10:00PM
Poster Session 2
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Thursday, January 08
| 7:00AM - 8:00AM
Breakfast
Room: Summit Gallery
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 7
* Timothy H. Bestor
, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 7
James Turner
, National Institute of Medical Research, UK
Meiotic Silencing in Mammals
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 7
Sundeep Kalantry
, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Short Talk: Evolution of Xist-Requirement in the Initiation of Mouse Imprinted X-Chromosome Inactivation
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 7
Robert L. Fischer
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Imprinting in Plants
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 7
Wolf Reik
, Babraham Institute, UK
Epigenetic Regulation of Imprinting, Reprogramming, and Lineage Commitment in Mammalian Development
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 6 of 7
Urszula Brykczynska
, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Short talk: Transmission of Methylated Histones with Modifications Specific Genomic Localization by Human Spermatozoa
Thursday, January 08
| 8:00AM - 11:00AM
Parental Origin-Specific Epigenetic Processes
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 7 of 7
Nico Ruf
, Babraham Institute, UK
Short Talk: Transcription is Required for Establishment of Germline Methylation Marks at Imprinted Genes
Thursday, January 08
| 9:20AM - 9:40AM
Coffee Break
Room: Foyer
Thursday, January 08
| 11:00AM - 11:00AM
On Own for Lunch
Thursday, January 08
| 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Poster Setup
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Thursday, January 08
| 1:00PM - 10:00PM
Poster Viewing
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Thursday, January 08
| 4:30PM - 5:00PM
Coffee Available
Room: Foyer
Thursday, January 08
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Environmental Modulation of Epigenetic States
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 5
* Michael Meaney
, McGill University, Canada
Thursday, January 08
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Environmental Modulation of Epigenetic States
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 5
Paul D. Soloway
, Cornell University, USA
Antagonism Between DNA and H3K27 Methylation at the Imprinted Rasgrf1 Locus
Thursday, January 08
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Environmental Modulation of Epigenetic States
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 5
E. Jean Finnegan
, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Epigenetic Determinants of an Environmental Response
Thursday, January 08
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Environmental Modulation of Epigenetic States
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 5
Jay C. Dunlap
, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Short Talk: DNA Methylation, the frq Antisense Transcript qrf, and the ATP-Dependent Chromatin-Remodeling Enzyme CHD2: Roles in the Epigenetic Transfer of Circadian Time
Thursday, January 08
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Environmental Modulation of Epigenetic States
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 5
Frédéric L. Chedin
, University of California, Davis, USA
Short talk: The DNMT3L Protein Interacts with Multiple Nucleosomal Components to Guide de novo Methylation
Thursday, January 08
| 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Social Hour with Lite Bites
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Thursday, January 08
| 7:30PM - 10:00PM
Poster Session 3
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Friday, January 09
| 7:00AM - 8:00AM
Breakfast
Room: Summit Gallery
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 7
* Wolf Reik
, Babraham Institute, UK
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 7
Amanda G. Fisher
, Imperial College London, UK
Epigenetic Regulators of Pluripotency
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 7
Matthias Merkenschlager
, Imperial College London, UK
Cohesins in Gene Regulation and Genome Organisation
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 7
Gerald R. Crabtree
, Stanford University, USA
Understanding the Words of Chromatin Remodeling
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 7
Michael Meaney
, McGill University, Canada
Epigenetic Programming of Behavior and Physiology
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 6 of 7
Simon C. Biddie
, University of Bristol, UK
Short Talk: Cell-Specific Interactions of the Glucocorticoid Receptor with Chromatin
Friday, January 09
| 8:00AM - 11:15AM
Vertebrate Developmental Epigenetics
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 7 of 7
Qiaoning Guan
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Short Talk: Nutritional Epigenomics in Yeasts and Human
Friday, January 09
| 9:20AM - 9:40AM
Coffee Break
Room: Foyer
Friday, January 09
| 11:15AM - 11:15AM
On Own for Lunch
Friday, January 09
| 4:30PM - 5:00PM
Coffee Available
Room: Foyer
Friday, January 09
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 1 of 5
* E. Jean Finnegan
, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Friday, January 09
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 2 of 5
Arthur L. Beaudet
, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
The Role of Epigenetics in Neurobehavioral Disorders
Friday, January 09
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 3 of 5
Kristian Helin
, University of Copenhagen and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Denmark
Histone Methylation at the Center of Cellular Differentiation and Disease
Friday, January 09
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 4 of 5
Andrew G. Clark
, Cornell University, USA
Short Talk: Transcriptome-Wide Identification of Novel Imprinted Genes in Neonatal Mouse Brain
Friday, January 09
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Disease
Room: Colorado Ballroom
Speaker 5 of 5
Andrew Chess
, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Genome-Wide Allele-Specific Epigenomic Analyses
Friday, January 09
| 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Social Hour with Lite Bites
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Friday, January 09
| 8:00PM - 11:00PM
Entertainment
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Friday, January 09
| 8:00PM - 11:00PM
Cash Bar
Room: Breckenridge Ballroom
Saturday, January 10
| 10:22AM - 10:22AM
Departure
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