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Epigenetics Gordon Conference in August 2007

By Trevor | January 11, 2007

The 2007 Epigenetics Gordon Conference, held every odd year at the Holderness School in Plymouth, NH, is set for August 5-10, 2007. This year’s conference will be chaired by Dr. Anne-Ferguson Smith of the University of Cambridge and Dr. Steven E. Jacobsen of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The list of confirmed speakers and chairs:

Histone modifications and variants
Chair: Sarah Elgin
Speakers: Steve Henikoff, Hiten Madhani, Karolin Luger, Terry Magnuson, Justin Goodrich

The dynamic nucleus
Chair: Jasper Rine
Speakers: David Spector, Edith Heard, Peter Fraser, En Li, Vincenzo Pirotta, Ting Wu

Epigenomics
Chair: Steve Jacobsen
Speakers: Bradley Bernstein, Ian Dunham, Rob Martienssen, Peter Jones

The roles of RNA I & II
Chair: Bill Kelly
Speakers: Marjori Matzke, David Baulcombe, Phillip Zamore, Bob Kingston, Vikki Chandler, Craig Pikaard, Shiv Grewal, Denise Barlow

DNA methylation
Chair: Jörn Walter
Speakers: Eric Selker, Tim Bestor, Hiro Sasaki, Judy Bender, Xiaodong Cheng

Imprinting, dosage compensation and chromosomal mechanisms
Chair: Emma Whitelaw
Speakers: Ueli Grossniklaus, Marisa Bartolomei, Jeannie Lee, Barbara Meyer, Jim Birchler

Epigenetics in developmental processes
Chair: Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino
Speakers: Renato Paro, Rudolph Jaenisch, Laura O’Neill, Azim Surani, Wolf Reik

Epigenetics and disease
Chair: Amar Klar
Speakers: Olivier Voinnet, Asifa Akhtar, Steve Baylin, Mike Higgins

Epigenetics, environment and evolution
Chair: Jean Finnegan
Speakers: Phil Avner, Eric Richards, Rick Amasino

Applications for the conference must be submitted by July 15, 2007. Applicants are encouraged to apply early as the selection of participants and short talks will commence in March 2007. Link

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