Academic Programme

 

Friday, 4 September
 
SESSION 1 – The epigenome and regulation of development
 
9.00 – 9.10am             Bruce Cattanach
                                         Introductory Remarks
9.10-9.40am                Azim Surani

                                         Resetting the epigenetic state in the mouse germline

9.40 – 10.10am           Davor Solter

                                         Epigenetic control of oocyte to embryo transition in mammals

10.10- 10.40am           Phil Avner

                                          Intersection between pluripotency and X inactivation

           
10.40 – 11.10am         COFFEE
 
11.10 – 11.40am         Marten van Lohuizen

                                          Role of polycomb repressors in cancer and development

11.40 – 12.10pm         Renato Paro

                                          Signalling and epigenetic regulation of tissue regeneration

 
12.30 – 2.00pm           LUNCH
 
SESSION 2 – Reprogramming and dynamics of DNA methylation
 
2.00pm – 2.30pm        Steve Jacobsen
                                          DNA methylation
2.30 – 3.00pm              Eric Selker

                                          Dissecting the control of DNA methylation using Neurospora

3.00 – 3.30pm              Marjori Matzke

                                          RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

3.30pm – 4.00pm        Adrian Bird

                                          Simplifying the genome via DNA methylation and CpG islands

 
4.00 – 4.30pm             COFFEE
           
4.30pm – 5.00pm        Howard Cedar
                                          Interactions between DNA methylation and histone marks
5.00-5.30pm                 Toru Nakano

                                          DNA methylation in early embryogenesis and spermatogenesis

5.30-6.00pm                 Jorn Walter

                                          Epigenetic reprogramming and DNA repair in the mammalian zygote

 
Banquet - King's College
 
 
Saturday 5 September
 
SESSION 3 – Epigenome in Health & Disease
 
9.00 – 9.30am             Tim Bestor

                                         Cytosine methylation and mammary carcinoma

9.30 – 10.00am           Peter Jones

                                         The cancer epigenome

10.00 – 10.30am         Andrew Feinberg

                                          Cancer epigenomics

 
10.30 – 11.00am         COFFEE
 
11.00 – 11.30am         Eamonn Maher

                                          Epigenetic control of disease processes

11.30 – 12.00pm         Bernhard Horsthemke

                                          From imprinting to the epigenome and back to imprinting         

12.00 – 12.30pm         Emma Whitelaw

                                          A role for epigenetic reprogramming in intangible variation

 
12.30 – 2.00pm           LUNCH
 
SESSION 4 – Interactions between genome & epigenome
 
2.00 – 2.30pm             Neil Brockdorff

                                         Xist-mediated silencing on autosomes is linked to the organisation of chromosomal L1 LINE domains

2.30 – 3.00pm             Rob Martienssen

                                         Epigenetic reprogramming and transposon control

3.00 – 3.30pm             Fumi Ishino

                                         Retrotransposon-derived imprinted genes, Peg10 & Peg11/Rtl1and their relation to the origin of viviparity in mammals

 
3.30 – 4.00pm             COFFEE
 
4.00 – 4.30pm             Gary Felsenfeld

                                         Chromatin boundaries and the regulation of gene expression

4.30 – 5.00pm             Edith Heard

                                         Dynamic regulation of X inactivation

5.00 – 5.30pm             Denise Barlow

                                         Gene silencing by macro non-coding RNAs

5.30 – 6.00pm             David Baulcombe

                                         Regulation of the epigenome by non-coding RNA

 
7.30 – 10pm    Dinner - Fitzwilliam museum
 
 
Sunday 6 September
 
SESSION 5 – Parental origin specific epigenetic control
 
9.00 – 9.30am             Ueli Grossniklaus

                                         Imprinting in plants

9.30 – 10.00am           Gavin Kelsey

                                         Transcription and the establishment of germline methylation imprint marks

10.00 – 10.30am         Marisa Bartolomei

                                          19 years of H19 imprinting: What’s next?

 
10.30 – 11.00am         COFFEE
 
11.00 – 11.30am         Bob Fischer
                                          Regulation of Arabidopsis gene imprinting by DNA demethylation
11.30 -12.00pm           Tomohiro Kono
                                         The regulation of imprinted genes
12.00 – 12.30pm         Jeannie Lee
                                          Imprinted X inactivation as a model for transgenerational inheritance.
 
12.30 – 2.00pm           LUNCH
 
 
SESSION 6 – Many epigenomes and their regulation
 
2.00 – 2.30pm             Bryan Turner

                                         Histone modifications and the regulation of genome function

2.30 – 3.00pm             Thomas Jenuwein

                                         Epigenetic control by histone methylation

3.00 – 3.30pm             Steve Henikoff  -   The Genetics Society Speaker

                                         Chromatin dynamics and imprinting in Arabidopsis

 
3.30 – 4.00pm             COFFEE
 
4.00 – 4.30pm             Sarah Elgin

                                         Targeting heterochromatin formation in Drosophila

4.30 – 5.00pm             Amanda Fisher
                                          Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency
5.00 – 5.30pm             Bradley Bernstein

                                         Polycomb regulation in normal and malignant stem cells