| Epigenomics of Common Diseases | |
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United Kingdom - Hinxton |
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| Hosted by: | Wellcome Trust Scientific Conferences |
| Venue: | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus |
| Dates: | Nov 06, 2015 through Nov 09, 2015 |
| Call for Proceedings Presentations: | 2015-07-01 through 2015-09-22 |
| Call for Posters: | 2015-07-01 through 2015-09-22 |
| Event Registration: | 2015-01-01 through 2015-10-06 |
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Description |
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| The 5th Wellcome Trust Epigenomics of Common Diseases conference will bring together leading scientists from the fields of epigenomics, genetics and bioinformatics to discuss the latest developments in this fast-moving area. Epigenetic variation plays an important role in disease processes and provides a promising focus for disease prediction, prevention and treatment. Technological advancements in the past few years have fuelled a dramatic increase in the scale, breadth and availability of epigenomic reference data. In addition, novel developments such as single cell analysis and gene editing present exciting new opportunities. Associations between epigenetic variation, a variety of risk factors and the development of many diseases continue to emerge but causality has, in many instances, not yet been established. This meeting will focus on epigenomic studies across of a wide range of common and other diseases, including approaches from a variety of different disciplines. It will explore technological and methodological developments and provide a forum to present and discuss recent advances in epigenomics of relevance to human disease. We welcome abstracts from all areas relevant to epigenetic and epigenomic research. Several oral presentations will be chosen from the abstracts submitted. Topics will include Epigenomics of disease Chromatin organisation Model systems: animal and cellular models Population epigenetics Clinical epigenetics Single cell epigenetics Epigenetic engineering Informatics and technology Scientific programme committee Stephan Beck University College London, UK Susan Clark The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia Andy Feinberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Edith Heard Institut Curie, France Caroline Relton University of Bristol, UK Keynote speakers Greg Hannon CSHL, USA Edith Heard Institut Curie, France Confirmed speakers Julie Ahringer University of Cambridge, UK Adrian Bird University of Edinburgh, UK Pilar Blancafort The University of Western Australia, Australia Philippe Collas University of Oslo, Norway Manolis Dermitzakis University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter DiMaggio Imperial College London, UK Joe Ecker Salk Institute USA Charles Gersbach Duke University, USA Anjana Rao La Jolla Institute, USA Wolf Reik Babraham Institute, UK Carmen Sapienza Temple University, USA Oliver Stegle EMBL-EBI, UK Daniel Zilberman University of California, Berkeley, USA |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | https://registration.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/display_info.asp?id=515 |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
| Contact Person: | Laura Hubbard ([javascript protected email address]) |
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