Draft Agenda |
Proposed Format:
A full 2-day meeting with 4 sessions (6 presentations each). Each presentation will be 30 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions. Also, there will be a poster session on the first evening. |
| Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast and Registration |
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Session 1: Epigenetic Regulatory Mechanisms
Chair: Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
The Dynamic Epigenome
Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry in Health and Disease
Ali Shilatifard, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
Computational Approaches to the Study of Epigenomes
Alexander Hartemink, Duke University, Durham, NC |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
RNAi in Heterochromatic Gene Silencing
Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Epigenetic Regulations by Molecular Clocks
Joseph Bass, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Writers, Readers and Erasers of Histone Marks
Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session 2: Aging, DNA Repair, Metabolism, and Inflammation
Chair: Michael "Geoff" Rosenfeld, University of California, La Jolla, CA |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Epigenetic Strategies in Cellular Life/Death and Translocation Events
Michael "Geoff" Rosenfeld, University of California, La Jolla, CA
Aging and Genome Instability
Yousin Suh, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
DNA Damage Response Pathways
Junjie Chen, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Inflammation and Epigenetic Reprogramming
Gioacchino Natoli, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Role of Sirtuins in Aging, Metabolism, and Stress Tolerance
David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Epigenetic Regulations by the Nutrient-Responsive O-ClcNAc Pathway
John Hanover, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Poster Session |
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Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast and Registration |
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Session 3: Imprinting, Developmental Programming, and Transgenerational Inheritance of Epigenetic Marks
Chair: Randy Jirtle, Duke University, Durham, NC |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Imprinting
Randy Jirtle, Duke University, Durham, NC
Transgenerational Inheritance
Michael Skinner, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Developmental Programming of Hypothalamic Feeding Circuits
Richard Simerly, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. |
Prenatal Origins of Adult Disease
Peter Nathanielsz, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
Early Nutritional Challenges and Glucose Homeostasis in Adulthood
Mark Hanson, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Epigenetics and Complex Disease: From Etiology to New Therapeutics
Arturas Petronis, The Krembil Family Epigenetic Laboratory, Toronto, Canada |
| 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:20 – 2:00 p.m. |
X-Chromosome Inactivation: The Role of Noncoding RNAs in Directing Chromatin Change
Jeannie T. Lee, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
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Session 4: Of Environment, Sexes, and Food
Chair: Claudine Junien, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France |
| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
Diet-Specific Epigenetic Marks
Claudine Junien, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
Growth Hormone Regulation of Sex-Dependent Liver Gene Expression
David Waxman, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Origins of Extreme Sexual Dimorphism in Genomic Imprinting
Déborah Bourc’his, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France
Epigenetics, Brain Evolution and Behaviour
James Curley, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dietary Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Roderick Dashwood, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Adjournment |
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