| Thursday, January 19 |
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3:00 - 7:30 PM
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Registration
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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6:30 - 7:30 PM
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Refreshments
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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7:30 - 8:30 PM
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Keynote Address
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Shavano Peak
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M. Azim Surani,
University of Cambridge
Epigenetic Programming of the Genome in the Embryo and Germ Cells
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| Friday, January 20 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Torreys 1-4
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8:00 - 11:15 AM
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Chromatin Structure and Function
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Shavano Peak
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C. David Allis,
Rockefeller University
Beyond the Double Helix: Reading and Writing the 'Histone Code'
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Peter B. Becker,
University of Munich
Site-Specific Acetylation Defines an Embryonic form of ISWI Associated with Mitotic Chromatin
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Zhiguo Zhang,
Mayo Clinic
Short Talk: Rtt106p is a Novel Histone Chaperone Involved in Epigenetic Silencing
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Stefan Kubicek,
Institute of Molecular Pathology
Epigenetic Control by Histone Methylation
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Robert Martienssen,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Regulation of Histone Methylation Patterns by RNAi in Plants and Fission Yeast
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Kevin V. Morris,
The Scripps Research Institute
Short Talk: The Antisense Strand of Small Interfering RNAs Directs Histone Methylation and Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Human Cells
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Poster Setup
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Torreys 1-4
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1:00 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Viewing
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Torreys 1-4
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Establishing Epigenetic Marks
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Shavano Peak
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Steven Henikoff,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Epigenetic Patterns Generated by Assembly of Histone Variants into Nucleosomes
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Caline Karam,
Johns Hopkins University
Short Talk: The Role of JIL-1 Mediated Histone H3 Phosphorylation in Transcriptional Activation
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En Li,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Role of DNA Methyltransferases in Mammalian Development
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Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A New Role of Genome Organizer SATB1 in Breast Cancer Mestastasis
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Torreys 1-4
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7:30 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Session 1
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Torreys 1-4
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| Saturday, January 21 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Torreys 1-4
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8:00 - 11:15 AM
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Chromatin-Controlled Gene Regulation in Development
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Shavano Peak
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Vicki L. Chandler,
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Heritable Chromatin Structures are Established through Trans-Interactions between Tandem Repeats
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Jeannie T. Lee,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Cis-Regulatory Chromatin Dynamics at the X-Inactivation Center
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Dominic John Ciavatta,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Short Talk: DNA Insulators Prevent Repression of a Targeted X-linked Transgene but not Its Random or Imprinted X-Inactivation
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Kami Ahmad,
Harvard Medical School
Replication-Independent Histone Replacement, Histone Variants and Maintaining Epogenetic States
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Laurie Jackson-Grusby,
Harvard Medical School
Reprogramming Epigenetic Imprinting
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Nora I. Engel,
University of Pennsylvania
Insulators, Mathylation and Transcriptional Regulation: Complesities of Imprinting Control
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Poster Setup
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Torreys 1-4
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1:00 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Viewing
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Torreys 1-4
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Nuclear Positioning
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Shavano Peak
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Peter Fraser,
Babraham Institute
Nuclear Organization of Transcription
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Giacomo Cavalli,
Institute of Human Genetics
Association of Polycomb Group Response Elements in the Nuclear Space
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Wendy A. Bickmore,
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Nuclear Re-Organization during Embryonic Development
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Daryl Gohl,
Princeton University
Short Talk: Analyzing Boundary Element Pairing and Competiton
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Torreys 1-4
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7:30 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Session 2
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Torreys 1-4
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| Sunday, January 22 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Torreys 1-4
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8:00 - 11:15 AM
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Mechanisms of Cellular Memory
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Shavano Peak
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Renato Paro,
ETH Zurich
Epigenetic Control of Tissue Regeneration in Drosophila
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Maxim Nekrasov,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Short Talk: Characterization of the Drosophila PRC2 HMTase
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Alexander (Sasha) Tarakhovsky,
Rockefeller University
Protein Lysine Methylation and Signal Transduction
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Keji Zhao,
National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Identification and Characterization of Human Polycomb Response Elements
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Ueli Grossniklaus,
University of Zürich
Epigenetic Inheritance during Arabidopsis Seed Development
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Peter Verrijzer,
Erasmus University Medical Center
PREs are CIS-Regulatory Elements That Mediate Function of PcG and TRXG Proteins
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Poster Setup
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Torreys 1-4
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1:00 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Viewing
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Torreys 1-4
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Cellular Plasticity and Tissue Reprogramming
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Shavano Peak
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Eric N. Olson,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Signfalling to the Genome: Lessons from the Heart
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Meinrad Busslinger,
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Transcriptional Control of B Cell Identity by Pax5
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Jiang Wu,
Stanford University/HHMI
Short Talk: An Essential Epigenetic Switch for Progenitor-to-Post-Mitotic Neural Development
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Rudolf Jaenisch,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Molecular Control of Pluripotency and Self-Renewal
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Torreys 1-4
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7:30 - 10:00 PM
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Poster Session 3
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Torreys 1-4
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| Monday, January 23 |
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7:00 - 8:00 AM
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Breakfast
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Torreys 1-4
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8:00 - 11:15 AM
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Cancer Epigenetics
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Shavano Peak
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Peter A. Jones,
University of Southern California
DNA Footprinting of CpG Islands at Single Molecule Resolution
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Tom Latham,
Westerb General Hospital
Short Talk: Transgenic Mice Overexpressing DNA Methyltransferase Dnmt3b Develop Abnormal Cpg Island Methylation and Increased Progression of Apc min Intestinal Tumours
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Stephen B. Baylin,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Epigenetic Control of Cancer or Questions of Epigenetic Networks Gone Wrong
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Michael J. Boland,
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Short Talk: Initial Characterization of an Interaction between C5-DNA Methyltransferase, Dnmt3b, and Thymine DNA Glycosylase
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Maarten Van Lohuizen,
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Polycomb Repressors Controlling Stem Cell Fate: Implications for Cancer and Development
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Trang Hoang,
Université de Montréal
Integration of Proliferative Signals from EED and BMI1 Proteins
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9:20 - 9:40 AM
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Coffee Break
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
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Coffee Available
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Shavano Peak Foyer
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5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Stem Cell Programming
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Shavano Peak
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Allan C. Spradling,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Carnegie Institute
The Lighten-up/p68 RNA Helicase Regulates Transcriptional Deactivation by Promoting RNA Release from Chromatin
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Emma Whitelaw,
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
An ENU Screen for Modifiers of Epigenetic Gene Silencing in the Mouse
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David John Katz,
Emory University
Short Talk: Histone H3 Lysine 4 Methylation Guards the Germ Cell Lineage
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Wolf Reik,
Babraham Institute
Imprinting and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mammalian Development
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7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
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Torreys 1-4
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8:00 - 11:00 PM
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Entertainment
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Torreys 1-4
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| Tuesday, January 24 |
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Departure
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