Chromatin and Epigenetics: from Mechanism to Function

Topics

• ​​Chromatin dynamics
• Epigenomics and single cell approaches
• Histone, RNA and DNA modifications
• Chromatin mechanics, condensates and modelling
• Epigenetic phenomena
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Description

This exciting three day conference will build a bridge between chromatin mechanisms and epigenetic phenomena - two key pillars of modern biology. This conference will cover the latest advances in the chromatin field, ranging from basic molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and chromatin condensates to complex epigenetic pathways in development,  reprogramming and disease across model systems.

Scientific organizers

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

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Confirmed speakers

• Kami Ahmad (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, US)
• Clifford Brangwynne (Princeton University, US)
• Luciano Di Croce (Centre for Genomic Regulation
• Dominic Grün (Max Plank Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany)
• Edith Heard (EMBL, Germany)
• Karl-Peter Hopfner (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany)
• Anthony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
• Rudolf Jaenisch (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, US)
• Tony Kouzarides (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Prisca Liberali (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
• Clodagh O'Shea (Salk Institute, US)
• Danny Reinberg (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US) 
• Yang Shi (Harvard Medical School, US)
• Dirk Shübeler (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
• Irina Solovei (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany)
• Alexander Stark (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
• Azim Surani (University of Cambridge, UK)