Epigenetics & Chromatin: Interaction and processes Conference 2013 | Harvard Medical School

Epigenetics & Chromatin: Interactions and processes

BioMed Central held its first conference on Epigenetics & Chromatin: interactions and processes in Boston from 11-13 March 2013. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a stimulating and interactive meeting. We look forward to welcoming you all back to Boston when the meeting is held again in March 2015.

By bringing together speakers in ten distinct but related areas of epigenetic research, the aim of the conference was to shed light on dynamic chromatin processes that connect genotype to phenotype. Each oral session was led by a distinguished leader in the field, and included terrific high-quality talks by both invited speakers and participants selected from the abstracts.

Congratulations to the poster prize winners:
1st prize: Shinpei Yamaguchi (Abstract P89)
2^nd prize: Lindsy Rapkin (P121)
Equal 3^rd prize: Dawn Carone (P110) and Angelika Feldmann (P16)

The abstracts from the conference have been published in the journal Epigenetics & Chromatin and can be found here.

To mark the conference, Epigenetics & Chromatin has launched a new thematic series of publications based around the general themes discussed.

The organizing committee and speaker list from this conference can be found below.

Organizing committee

Frank Grosveld,

Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Steven Henikoff

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

Robert Kingston

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Speakers & panel

Geneviève Almouzni

Institut Curie, France

Adrian Bird

University of Edinburgh, UK

Gerd Blobel

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Stephen Buratowski

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Brad Cairns

University of Utah, USA

Job Dekker

UMass Medical School, USA

Benjamin Garcia

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Shiv Grewal

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

James Haber

Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

Gordon Hager

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

Nathaniel Heintz

The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Peter A Jones

University of Southern California, USA

Jeannie Lee

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

Frank Pugh

Penn State University, USA

Yang Shi

Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

David Spector

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

Brian Strahl

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Jessica Tyler

MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Iestyn Whitehouse

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Jerry Workman

Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA

Anton Wutz

University of Cambridge, UK

Kenneth Zaret

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Zhiguo Zhang

Mayo Clinic, USA

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