Wendy Bickmore
MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Overview
Conference Overview
The EMBL Transcription and Chromatin meeting has a long-standing tradition in shaping the field of transcriptional regulation. The meeting brings together leading experts covering all aspects of transcription from cis-regulatory function, long range regulation, 3-dimensional looping, the basal transcriptional machinery, RNA polymerase regulation and function, nucleosome positioning, chromatin modifications, chromatin remodelling, and epigenetic inheritance of transcriptional silencing. The meeting contains many talks selected from the abstracts that are interspersed with invited speakers, discussing the latest breakthroughs in transcriptional regulation.
The conference is designed to promote interactive discussions at both the talks and poster sessions. Given the excellent line up of speakers and the meeting’s outstanding reputation, this is a ‘must’ attend for anyone interested in cutting edge research in transcription.
Session Topics
- Activators, enhancer function, evolution and modelling
- Long range transcriptional regulation and enhancers
- General basal transcriptional machinery
- Pol II function, pausing and the role of RNA in transcription
- Chromatin modifications and transcription
- Transcriptional regulation during cell fate decisions – stem cell reprogramming and normal embryonic development
- Genome topology and three-dimensional regulation
- Single cell quantification
Speakers
Speakers and Trainers
Speakers
Patrick Cramer
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Xavier Darzacq
University of California Berkeley
USA
Anne Ferguson-Smith
University of Cambridge,
UK
Doug Higgs
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
UK
Katherine Jones
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
USA
Haruhiko Koseki
Laboratory for Developmental Genetics | RIKEN
Japan
Tony Kouzarides
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
UK
Michael Levine
Princeton University,
USA
Raphaël Margueron
Institut Curie,
France
Jane Mellor
University of Oxford
UK
Jürg Muller
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Germany
Geeta Narlikar
University of California San Francisco
USA
Christof Niehrs
Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)
Germany
Clodagh O’Shea
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
USA
Melanie Ott
Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco,
USA
Kathrin Plath
University of California Los Angeles,
USA
Danny Reinberg
New York University School of Medicine
USA
Charles W. M. Roberts
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
USA
Paolo Sassone-Corsi
University of California Irvine
USA
Eran Segal
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
Ali Shilatifard
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
USA
Alexander Stark
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Austria
Henk Stunnenberg
Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
Jesper Svejstrup
The Francis Crick Institute,
UK
Marc Timmers
University of Freiburg/German Cancer Research Centre,
Germany
Richard Treisman
The Francis Crick Institute
UK
Didier Trono
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
Chris Vakoc
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
USA
Scientific Organisers
Karen Adelman
Harvard Medical School
USA
Denis Duboule
University of Geneva and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
Eileen Furlong
EMBL Heidelberg,
Germany
Peter Verrijzer
Erasmus MC
The Netherlands
Conference Organisers
Nathalie Sneider
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Programme
Date: 25 - 28 Aug 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg