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	Azim Surani University of Cambridge “Resetting the epigenetic state in the mouse germ line”			Davor Solter Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore “Epigenetic control of oocyte to embryo transition in mammals”

	Bruce Cattanach Formerly MRC Harwell, Mammalian Genetics Unit “Introductory remarks”			David Allis The Rockefeller University “Beyond the double helix - writing, reading and mis-reading the 'histone code'

	Phil Avner Institut Pasteur “Intersection between pluripotency and X inactivation”			Denise Barlow Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science “Gene silencing by imprinted macro non-coding RNAs”

	Marisa Bartolomei University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “19 years of H19 imprinting: What's next?”			David Baulcombe University of Cambridge “Regulation of the epigenome by non-coding RNA”

	Bradley Bernstein Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School “Polycomb regulation in normal and malignant stem cells”			Tim Bestor Columbia University “Cytosine methylation and mammary carcinoma”

	Adrian Bird University of Edinburgh “Simplifying the genome via DNA methylation and CpG islands”			Neil Brockdorff University of Oxford “Xist mediated silencing on autosomes is linked to the organisation of chromosomal L1 LINE domains”

	Howard Cedar The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Interactions between DNA methylation and histone marks”			Sarah Elgin Washington University “Targeting heterochromatin formation in Drosophila”

	Andy Feinberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “Cancer epigenomics”			Gary Felsenfeld NIDDK, National Institutes of Health “Chromatin boundaries and the regulation of gene expression”

	Robert Fischer University of California, Berkeley “Regulation of Arabidopsis gene imprinting by DNA demethylation”			Amanda Fisher MRC Clinical Sciences Centre “Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency”

	Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zurich “Imprinting in plants”			Edith Heard CNRS Institut Curie “Dynamic regulation of X inactivation”

	Steve Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center “Chromatin dynamics and imprinting in Arabidopsis”			Bernhard Horsthemke University of Duisburg-Essen “Genomic imprinting and imprinting defects in humans”

	Fumi Ishino Tokyo Medical and Dental University “Retrotransposon-derived imprinted genes, Peg10 and Peg11/Rtl1, and their relation to the origin of viviparity in mammals”			Steve Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles “DNA methylation”

	Thomas Jenuwein Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology “Epigenetic Control by Histone Methylation”			Peter Jones University of Southern California “The Cancer Epigenome”

	Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute “Transcription and the establishment of germline methylation imprint marks”			Tomohiro Kono Tokyo University of Agriculture “The regulation of imprinted genes”

	Jeannie Lee Massachusetts General Hospital “Imprinted X-inactivation as a model for transgenerational inheritance”			Maarten van Lohuizen Netherlands Cancer Institute “Role of polycomb repressors in cancer and development”

	Eamonn Maher University of Birmingham “Epigenetic control of disease processes”			Rob Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “Epigenetic reprogramming and transposon control”

	Marjori Matzke Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology “RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis			Toru Nakano Osaka University “PGC7/Stella as a protector against active DNA demethylation”

	Renato Paro ETH Zuerich “Signalling and epigenetic regulation of tissue regeneration”			Eric Selker University of Oregon “Dissecting the control of DNA methylation using Neurospora”

	Bryan Turner University of Birmingham “Histone modifications and the regulation of genome function” Emma Whitelaw Queensland Institute of Medical Research “A role for epigenetic reprogramming in intangible variation”			Jörn Walter Saarland University “Epigenetic reprogramming and DNA-repair in the mammalian zygote”

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