** Program is Subject to Change - Last Update 10/8
All Times are Eastern Time.
| Friday, October 9 | |
| Session 1: Nuclear Organization and Dynamics Session Chair: Pernette Verschure, University of Amsterdam |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Cracking the Nucleus: Finding Order in Chaos Clodagh O'Shea, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Epigenetic Control of Cell State By Chromatin Looping Jill Dowen, University of North Carolina |
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | 3D Epigenome Remodelling in Endocrine Resistant Breast Cancer Joanna Achinger-Kawecka, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, UNSW Sydney |
| 11:10 AM - 11:20 AM | A Cohesin Cancer Mutation Reveals a Role for the Hinge Domain in Genome Organization and Gene Expression Zachary Carico, University of North Carolina |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:40 AM - 11:50 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 11:50 AM - 1:30 PM | Session 2: Writing Epigenetic Modifications Session Chair: Isaac Hilton, Rice University |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Invited Speaker: Targeting Epigenome in Cancer: Drug Discovery Approaches for Cancer Treatment Lucia Altucci, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli |
| 12:10 PM - 12:20 PM | Epigenetic Editing Regulates Alternative Splicing of Srsf11 and Cocaine Reward Behavior Elizabeth Heller, University of Pennsylvania |
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Invited Speaker: Zfp462 Recruits HP1 and Ehmt1/2 to Repress Endodermal Genes in Neuronal Cells Oliver Bell, University of Southern California |
| 12:40 PM - 12:50 PM | High-Throughput Discovery and Characterization of Human Transcriptional Effectors Josh Tycko, Stanford University |
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Invited Speaker: Cooperativity and the Design of Gene Regulatory Circuits Ahmad (Mo) Khalil, Boston University |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Rapid Fire and Poster Session |
| Saturday, October 10 | |
| 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM | Session 3: Sensing Epigenetic Modifications Session Chair: Nathaniel Hathaway, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Genome-Wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interaction Steve Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Genetic and Epigenetic Manipulation of the Human Glucocorticoid Response Tim Reddy, Duke University |
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Dynamic Nucleosome Reorganization during the Pioneer Factor GATA3-Mediated Cellular Reprogramming in Breast Cancer Motoki Takaku, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Transcription Factors that Sense Histone Modifications in Cancer Cells Karmella Haynes, Emory University |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Session 4: Single Cell Epigenetics Session Chair: Lacra Bintu, Stanford University |
| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Invited Speaker: Dynamic Epigenetic Regulation in Single Cells to Understand How Cells Adapt to Perturbations? Pernette Verschure, University of Amsterdam |
| 12:20 PM - 12:30 PM | Detangling DNA: Single-Cell Approaches to Understanding Plasticity in Cellular Reprogramming Kate Galloway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Environmental Regulation of the Estrogen Response in Single Cells Joseph Rodriguez, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| 12:50 PM - 1:00 PM | Tunable Optogenetic Signal Decoding through Epigenome Editors Jessica Lee, North Carolina State University |
| 1:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Coordinated Regulation of DDIT4 Transcriptional Heterogeneity By a Cluster of Glucocorticoid Receptor Binding Sites Jackson Hoffman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Networking and Poster Session |
| Sunday, October 11 | |
| 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM | Session 5: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Charles Gersbach, Duke University |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Fyodor Urnov, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Invited Speaker: Dynamic Imaging of Nascent RNA Reveals General Principles of Transcription Dynamics Daniel Larson, National Institutes of Health |
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Genome Replication As Origin of Regulatory Variation and Epigenetic Drift Julien Morival, University of California, Irvine |
| 11:10 AM - 11:20 AM | Measurement of DNA Methylation and Nuclear Organization with Nanopore Sequencing Roham Razaghi, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM | Networking Session |
| 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Session 6: Epigenetics in Human Health & Disease Session Chair: Albert Keung, North Carolina State University |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Invited Speaker: Epigenetic Editing: Contexts Matter Marianne Rots, University Medical Center Groningen |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Invited Speaker: Decoding the Epigenomic Regulation of Neuronal Plasticity Anne West, Duke University |
| 12:50 PM - 1:00 PM | Neuronal Activity-Induced BRG1 Phosphorylation Regulates Enhancer Activation Jiang Wu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM | Live Q&A Panel |
| 1:20 PM - 1:30 PM | Closing Remarks |