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28 October, Monday, Day 1

10:30 - 15:00  

Session 1
Data Visualization Workshop
10:30 - 11:30  TBA
11:30 - 12:30  Helena Jambor: How not to lie with (biomedical) charts
12:30 – 13:00  Break
13:00 – 14:40

Helena Jambor: Take a sad plot and make it better - Better figures in the biological sciences 
14:40 – 15:00 Cecília Maria Arraiano
12:00 – 15:30   Registration
15:15 – 15:30  Conference Opening
15:30 – 18:15 Session 2
Epigenetics and Transcription
15:30 – 16:00  Laszlo Tora: Co-translational Assembly Orchestrates Transcription Regulation
16:00 – 16:15  selected talk
16:15 – 16:30  selected talk
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  selected talk
17:45 – 18:15  Rob Klose: Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression
18:30 – 19:30 Session 3
Keynote Lecture
18:30 – 19:30   Ken Zaret: The Battle between Gene Activators and Silent Chromatin
20:00 –  Welcome dinner
 
 

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 differentiation
10:00 – 10:30  Michiel Vermeulen: Deciphering gene regulation in synthetic mammalian embryos using integrative omics approaches
10:30 – 10:45  selected short talk
10:45 – 11:00  selected short talk
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00  TBA
12:00 – 12:15  selected short talk
12:15 – 12:30  selected short talk
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 - 16:30   Poster session I.
15:30 - 15:45   Coffee break
16:15 - 19:00 Session 5
Epigenetics and disease
16:15 – 17:00  Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Early Mammalian
EMBO Keynote Lecturer
17:00 – 17:15  selected short talk
17:15 – 17:30  selected short talk
17:30 – 18:00  Nicola Iovino: Epigenetics of early development
EMBO Young INVESTIGATOR Lecture
18:00 – 18:15 selected short talk
18:15 – 18:30  selected short talk
18:30 – 19:00  Petra Hajkova: Stability, Turnover, and Erasure of Epigenetic Information
20:00 - 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
10:00 – 10:30  Celia Martinez-Jimenez: Aging and Polyploidy: Dissecting a Novel Hepatocyte Cell State
10:30 – 10:45  selected short talk
10:45 – 11:00  selected short talk
11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00  Elvan Böke: Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes
12:00 - 12:15 selected short talk
12:15 - 12:30 selected short talk
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
16:00 - 17:00 Oded Rechavi: Epigenetic Memories 
17:00 - 19:00 Session 8
Epigenetics and model organisms
17:00 - 17:30 Eric Miska: Non-coding RNAs in early development
17:30 – 17:45  selected short talk
17:45 – 18:15  Ian Henderson: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of the Arabidopsis centromeres
18:15 – 18:30  selected short talk
18:30 – 19:00  Julie Ahringer: Chromatin conformation analysis in C elegans
19:30 - Gala dinner
 
 

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
10:00 – 10:30  Claire Rougeulle: Digging into Primate X chromosome Inactivation
10:30 – 10:45  selected short talk
10:45 – 11:00  selected short talk
11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00  Susan Mango: Dynamic chromatin during pluripotency and gastrulation
12:00 - 12:15   selected short talk
12:15 – 12:30  selected short talk
12:30 – 13:00 Andrew J. Pospisilik: Probability, ERVs, and Phenotypic Variation
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00 Prizes and concluding remarks
 
 

Deadlines

  • Youth Travel Fund Grants
    5 June 2024
  • Payment of early registration fee
    15 July 2024
  • Submission of abstracts
    5 July 2024
  • Recommended date for hotel reservation
    31 August 2024
  • Cancellation of registration without penalty
    31 August 2024

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