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28 October, Monday, Day 1

10:15 - 15:00		Session 1 Data Visualization Workshop *Chairs: Tamás Arányi and Lóránt Székvölgyi*
10:15 - 11:00		Cornelius Schneider: Publishing Policies and Initiatives at EMBO Press
11:00 - 12:00		Katarína Furmanová: Pitfalls and Best Practices of Data Visualization
12:00 – 12:30		Break
12:30 – 14:00		Jan Byška: Data Visualization in Action: From Theory to Application
14:00 – 14:30		Cecília Maria Arraiano: FEBS Journals not only Publish Important Science but they also Promote Society: Examples from our Work in RNA, RNases and Control of Gene Expression
12:00 – 15:30		Registration
15:15 – 15:30		Conference Opening *Chair: Lorant Szekvolgyi* Tamas Aranyi: Opening Remarks
15:30 – 18:15		Session 2 Epigenetics and Transcription *Chair: Ferenc Müller*
15:30 – 16:00		Laszlo Tora: RNA Polymerase II Transcription is Supported by Partially Assembled TFIID Complexes in Embryonic Stem Cells
16:00 – 16:15		Changqing Li: The structure of the human TIP60/EP400 super-complex: merging chromatin remodeling and histone acetyltransferase activities
16:15 – 16:30		Inma Gonzalez: MYC and MAX drive the reactivation of the genome after mitosis
16:30 – 17:00		Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30		Tineke Lenstra: A single-molecule understanding of transcriptional bursting EMBO Young INVESTIGATOR Lecture
17:30 – 17:45		Acadia Kocher: Probing the chromatin and location dependencies of transcription factors in high throughput
17:45 – 18:15		Rob Klose: Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression
18:30 – 19:30		Session 3 Keynote Lecture *Chair: Petra Hajkova*
18:30 – 19:30		Ken Zaret: The Battle between Gene Activators and Silencers
20:00 – 22:00		Welcome dinner ÖbölHáz Event Hall Included in the registration fees. Entry by ticket only.

29 October, Tuesday, Day 2

08:30 – 09:30		Breakfast with the invited speakers (in speakers’ hotel, maximum 3 students / speaker, registration for the programme is needed in advance)
09:00 – 10:00		Registration
10:00 – 11:00		Session 4 Epigenetics and disease *Chair: Tamas Aranyi*
10:00 – 10:30		Michiel Vermeulen: Deciphering lineage specification during early embryogenesis using multi-layered proteomics
10:30 – 10:45		Lehua Chen: TET1, folate resistance and genetic risk factors in neural tube defects
10:45 – 11:00		Vivien Horváth: Local heterochromatin mitigates the impact of a transposable element insertion causing a neurodegenerative disorder
11:00 - 11:30		Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:45		Mutay Aslan: All about FEBS
11:45 – 12:00		Ferenc Müller: Transcription initiation site selection defines posttranscriptional mRNA fate
12:00 – 12:15		Ning Qing Liu: SMARCB1 loss activates patient-specific distal oncogenic enhancers in malignant rhabdoid tumors
12:15 – 12:30		Wayo Matsushima: Co-opted retroviral domain defines lineage-specific enhancer blocking zinc-finger proteins
12:30 – 13:00		Kristian Helin: Epigenetics, and its role in transcriptional regulation, cell fate and cancer
13:00 - 14:30		Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00		Poster session I.
15:30 - 16:00		Coffee break
16:00 - 19:00		Session 5 Epigenetics and differentiation *Chair: Laszlo Tora*
16:00 – 17:00		Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Early Mammalian EMBO Keynote Lecturer
17:00 – 17:15		David Tremerick: The Crucial Role of H2A.Z in Cell Fate Decisions: New Insights into the Regulation of Promoter Chromatin Architecture
17:15 – 17:30		Sunil Kumar Pradhan: Correlation of Epigenetic Dynamics with the Genome Replication Program in mESCs
17:30 – 17:45		Apple break
17:45 – 18:15		Claire Rougeulle: To Inactivate or not: An eXISTential Question
18:15 – 18:30		Vaidotas Stankevicius: Chemical epigenetic approach for specific tracking of DNA methylation in mammalian cells
18:30 – 18:45		Gergely Nagy: Lineage-determining transcription factor-driven promoters regulate cell type-specific macrophage gene expression
18:45 – 19:15		Petra Hajkova: Stability, Turnover, and Erasure of Epigenetic Information
20:00 – 22:00		Beer session / Meet the lecturers

30 October, Wednesday, Day 3

08:30 – 09:30		Breakfast with the invited speakers (in speakers’ hotel, maximum 3 students / speaker, registration for the programme is needed in advance)
10:00 – 13:00		Session 6 Epigenetics and aging *Chair: J. Andrew Pospisilik*
10:00 – 10:30		Celia Martinez-Jimenez: Aging and Polyploidy: Dissecting a Novel Hepatocyte Cell State
10:30 – 10:45		Yitzhak Reizel: Hepatocyte transplantation remodels their epigenetic landscape and reverses their epigenetic age
10:45 – 11:00		Georgieva Milena: Chromatin and Linker Histones: Their Role in Maintaining Genome Stability and Aging
11:00 – 11:30		Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00		Andreas Beyer: A systems perspective on transcriptional stress during aging
12:00 - 12:15		Margherita Mori: Deciphering DNA methylation maintenance mechanisms in response to DNA damage
12:15 - 12:30		selected short talk - Epigenetic prize
12:30 – 13:00		Peter Tessarz: Metabolism and Epigenetics in Aging
13:00 - 14:00		Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00		Poster session II.
15:45 - 16:00		Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00		Session 7 Keynote Lecture *Chair: Celia Martinez-Jimenez*
16:00 - 17:00		Oded Rechavi: Epigenetic Memories
17:00 - 19:00		Session 8 Epigenetics and model organisms *Chair: Celia Martinez-Jimenez*
17:00 – 17:30		Eric Miska: Non-coding RNAs in early development
17:30 – 17:45		Ana Janeva: Taking the HAT off: Perturbing Histone Acetylation for a Cell Fate Makeover
17:45 – 18:00		Apple break
18:00 – 18:30		Ian Henderson: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of the Arabidopsis centromeres
18:30 – 18:45		Richard Bartfai: The protein landscape of the chromatin states in P. falciparum parasites
18:45 – 19:15		Julie Ahringer: Uncovering how the genome directs development
20:30 – 22:30		Gala dinner with river cruise Gathering in the aula of the venue: 19:15-19:30

31 October, Thursday, Day 4

08:30 – 09:30		Breakfast with the invited speakers (in speakers’ hotel, maximum 3 students / speaker, registration for the programme is needed in advance)
10:00 – 13:00		Session 9 Epigenetics and inheritance *Chair: Petra Hajkova*
10:00 – 10:30		Nicola Iovino: Epigenetics of early development EMBO Young INVESTIGATOR Lecture
10:30 – 10:45		Katalin Fejes Toth: Beyond the histone code: an unexpected function of SetDB1 in heterochromatin spreading and maintenance
10:45 – 11:00		Archana Tomar: Whispers of Diet: The Hidden Legacy of Sperm-Borne Mitochondrial RNAs
11:00 – 11:30		Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00		Susan Mango: Dynamic chromatin during pluripotency and gastrulation
12:00 - 12:15		Juliane Glaser: Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles causing a developmental limb phenotype
12:15 – 12:30		Christian Belton: The molecular and phenotypic features of non-canonical imprinting
12:30 – 13:00		Andrew J. Pospisilik: Probability, ERVs, and Phenotypic Variation
13:00 - 13:10		Prizes and concluding remarks
13:10 - 14:00		Farewell lunch

Posters list

Each poster might be mounted during the whole Conference. The recommended poster size is a standing A/0 (84 cm x 119 cm) as the size of the poster board is 90 cm at width and 120 cm at height. Posters left on the boards after the removal deadline will be removed by the organisers.

Mounting: October 28, from 12:00
Removal: October 31, till 13:00

Technical instructions:
Posters should be prepared for standard STANDING (PORTRAIT) A/0 size (84 x 119 cm – 1 sqm). PLEASE DO NOT PRINT A LANDSCAPE POSTER!
The organisers provide pins to mount your poster to the board at the conference venue and they will be at your disposal if you need help.

P-01	Agnieszka Belter The Epigenetic Effect of Cannabis on Glioblastoma Cell Lines
P-02	Neethu Mohan Unraveling the Pharmacoepigenetic Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs
P-03	Adina Aukenova Dimerization Controls Ikaros Transcription Factor Function
P-04	Jure Krasic Cell-Free DNA Analysis of Blood and Ejaculate in Nonseminomatous Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Patients
P-05	Péter Nánási Molecular Associations of Histone Variant H2A.Z Involving its C-terminal Tail
P-06	Kristóf Gui The Analysis of the Classical and Extended Synergy Transcription Programs in Macrophages and in Epithelial-like Tumor Cells in the Presence and Absence of the Transcription Factor BACH1
P-07	Teresa Rubio-Tomás Modulation of Life Span and Health Span Upon Oxidative Stress by HDACs
P-08	Nineļa Vainšeļbauma Polyploidy, circadian clock deregulation and epigenetic reprogramming to reproductive attractor states promote treatment resistance in malignant tumors.
P-09	Logan Williams Cell-free DNA methylation patterns in maternal blood plasma show overlapping signatures between maternal obesity and child autism diagnosis, with a substantial enrichment for genes previously implicated in autism susceptibility
P-10	Julija Šmon Depression, suicide and proteinopathy: elucidating the relationships between aggregation and pathological development (the DeSPERADo project)
P-11	Chayeen Brotzki da Costa Investigating DNA methylation patterns during annelid regeneration
P-12	Ibtissem Benhamza Epigenetic Modulation via the C-Terminal Tail OF H2A.Z
P-13	Georgios Nikolopoulos Cockayne syndrome B protein is implicated in transcription and associated chromatin dynamics in homeostatic and genotoxic conditions
P-14	Ksenia Kolobynina Novel regulators of the chromatin response to DNA damage
P-15	Venkata Chelikani Regulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus Gene Expression by Dietary Compounds via N4-Methylcytosine modifications: A Novel Approach to Probiotic Engineering
P-16	Esteban Retamales Intergenerational adaptation of C. elegans to high temperature induced diapause
P-17	Priyanka Mehra MicroRNA sequencing reveals new targets to understand the pathology of fat accumulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
P-18	Leonard Steg Exploring mouse strain specific effects of low protein diet on liver epigenome and transcriptome and on serum lipidome.
P-19	Teodora Lukic Unraveling ΔNp63-Driven Transcriptional Reprogramming in Squamous Carcinogenesis: Insights from Comparative Omics Analysis
P-20	Maria Teresa Alejo Vinogradova INVESTIGATING PRC1 VARIANTS DYNAMICS DURING MOUSE EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
P-21	Kajsa Karlsson Small RNAs in sperm – Paternal contribution to IVF outcomes
P-22	Gábor Pápai Binding to nucleosome poises human SIRT6 for histone H3 deacetylation
P-24	Constance Merdrignac Autism-related gene intergenerationally regulates neurodevelopment and behavior in fish through non-genetic mechanisms
P-25	Emma Torun Investigating the role of the deubiquitinase BAP1 at enhancer regions
P-26	Alice Jouneau Changes in H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 landscapes during in vitro derivation of embryonic and trophoblast stem cells – a bovine study
P-27	Zsófia B. Nagy Assessment of the environmental factors affecting DNA stability on leukocytes
P-28	Kristine Salmina Mitotic slippage, soma-germ and ameboid transitions cooperatively support tumour cell resistance after genotoxic treatment
P-29	Barbara Bartak Examination of epigenetic changes in patients with hyperhomocysteinemia after folic acid supplementation
P-30	Ferenc Jankovics Identification of structural elements of the Sov protein involved in heterochromatin-mediated transcriptional transposon silencing in Drosophila
P-31	Inge de Krijger Uncovering enhancer dynamics in B-cell to macrophage transdifferentiation using proximity proteomics
P-32	Hiba Souaifan Role of HP1 proteins in the maturation and degradation of non-coding RNAs in connection with the nuclear RNA Exosome complex.
P-33	Ehsan Pourkarimi High tryptophan concentration leads to genomic instability, changes in chromatin structure, and gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans
P-34	Amélie Taschereau Placental microRNA are associated with insulin secretion during pregnancy
P-36	Bela Vasileva COULD PHYTOMETABOLITES BE THE NEXT BREAKTHROUGH IN ANTI- AGEING THERAPY?
P-37	Dávid Kis Ultrasensitive early detection of colorectal cancer by cell-free DNA methylation-based liquid biopsy assay
P-38	Tamás Linkner Characterization of embryonic and mesenchymal properties of tumor cells with flow cytometry
P-39	Péter Hunyadi Inferring DNA methylation from low-pass WGS of cell-free DNA using fragmentation patterns in ovarian cancer samples
P-40	Mirabela Romanescu Characterisation of the hsa-miR-130a and hsa-miR-365a -3p/-5p ratios in prostate cancer biospecimens
P-41	Aimée Rodica Chis MIR-19 AS LEVODOPA THERAPY RESPONDER IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
P-42	Paula Diana Ciordas Characterization of plasma hsa-miR-19b-3p as prognostic biomarker in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
P-43	Douwe ten Bulte Understanding the role of DNA methylation at H3K9me3-decorated heterochromatin
P-44	Ovidiu Sirbu Consistent discordances in quantification of 3p and 5p microRNA species are independent of their GC content and secondary structure stability
P-45	Laura Quispe Experimental design to study sperm DNA methylation in response to elevated temperature in Medaka (Oryzias latipes) and its transgenerational transmission
P-46	Amelie Bonnet-Garnier Abnormal organization of major satellite sequences in zygote of mice knock-out for Suv39h1-repressive antisense lncRNA
P-47	Teruhito Ishihara Nanosplit - Allele-specific read sorting programme for Oxford nanopore long read sequencing platform
P-48	Alexandra Mocanu Dobranici Highlighting the role of linker of cytoskeleton and nucleoskeleton (LINC) complex in magnetically-driven epiegentic changes
P-49	Máté Varga Zebrafish models of defective pseudouridylation provide insights into the ethiology of ribosomopathies
P-50	Damir Baranasic Functional impacts of promoter evolution in Cyprinus carpio carpio revealed by high-resolution CAGE Analysis
P-51	Sára Zsigrai FOLIC ACID AND S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE ARE EFFECTIVE METHYLOME MODULATORS IN COLORECTAL CANCER CELL LINES
P-52	Kristóf Rada Long-read Nanopore sequencing in pursuit of complete methylation profiling of hungarian CRC patients
P-53	Krisztina Szigeti Global DNA hypomethylation linked to decreased methyl-donor level in colorectal cancer progression
P-54	Eszter Farkas Effects of folic acid levels on DNA fragmentation and epigenetic changes
P-55	Fruzsina Bányai Monitoring epigenetic changes after folic acid supplementation
P-56	Eleftheria Chatzantonaki The functional role of Polycomb-mediated chromatin architecture during neuronal development.
P-57	Firuze Unlu Bektas Investigating MBD5 and its contribution to PR-DUB complex function in the developing brain
P-58	Kian Peng Koh The epigenetic functions of vitamin C, TET1 and genetic susceptibility for neural tube defects.
P-59	Liepa Gasiule Metabolic Labeling of Individual DNA Methylomes in Live Cells
P-60	Antonio Adamo YMETHX: Deciphering the Interplay of DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Male Sex Chromosome Aneuploidies
P-61	Ankan Ankan Roy Hub genes in driving colon cancer progression: plasma membrane lipid raft signaling regulates the hub genes by epigenetic modulation
P-62	Tamás Arányi Improve-RRBS: a novel tool to correct the 3’ trimming of reduced representation sequencing reads
P-63	Zsuzsanna Gaál Targeted Epigenetic Interventions in Cancer with an Emphasis on Pediatric Malignancies
P-64	Tamás Arányi Hepatocyte-Specific DNMT3A And DNMT3B Knockout Mice Develop Pre-Cancerous Phenotype
P-65	Anna Poscher Synergistic interaction between IL-4 and hypoxia: An epigenetic perspective
P-66	Dániel Tóth Involvment of de novo DNA Methyltransferases in Stress-Induced Responses of the Liver
P-67	Ningqing Liu Targeting transcription factor addiction to treat acute myeloid leukemia
P-68	Zsófia Varga Identification OF Synergistic Interactions Between the Opposing Polarization Signals in Macrophages
P-69	Tomasz Wojdacz Blood cells of BRCA1 mutation and epimutation carriers appear to acquire specific epigenetic signatures
P-70	Muhyiddeen Muazu Postnatal hyperthyroidism causes DNA hypermethylation and marked decrease of Dio1 gene expression in the liver of adult mice
P-71	Jan Bińkowski Blood and urinary arsenic levels are associated with methylation of promoters of genes involved in molecular processes related to arsenic toxicity
P-72	Sarah Offley TRanscriptional Regulation by Non-canonical PP2A Complexes
P-73	Katarzyna Sokołowska Methylation levels at non promoter CpG sites are correlated with expression of distant genes
P-74	Krystyna Giemza Precision chromosome engineering to study nucleolar formation in human cells.
P-76	Lenka Steiner Mrázová Classification of Variants of Uncertain Significance in Neurological Diseases: Three Different Approaches
P-77	Agnieszka Zelisko-Schmidt Efficient, low-input chromatin profiling using iDeal CUT&Tag and ATAC-seq kits
P-78	Tibor Csorba Transcriptional control of heat stress response in plants

Deadlines

Payment of early registration fee
15 July 2024
Recommended date for hotel reservation
31 August 2024
Late abstract submission
6 September 2024
Cancellation of registration without penalty
31 August 2024

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