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Technical Program

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Confex Program with Abstracts

Day 1 - 3 October 2024

Start Time End Time  
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Registration (open all day) 
9:45 AM 10:00 AM

Conference Introduction

Conference Chairs:

Nate Hathaway - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Karmella Haynes - Emory University

Pernette Verschure - University of Amsterdam

10:00 AM

10:45 AM

The EMBO Keynote Lecture                            

Wendy Bickmore - University of Edinburgh                                 

10:45 AM 11:15 PM Coffee Break
11:15 PM 12:35 PM Session 1 - Perturbing Chromatin and Epigenetic Editing

Session Chair: Nate Hathaway - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:15 AM 11:40 AM Specificity of DNMTs in Nature and Engineering

Albert Jeltsch - University of Stuttgart
11:40 AM 12:05 AM Dynamic Epigenetic Regulation and Transcription Bursting in Single Cells

Pernette Verschure - University of Amsterdam
12:05 PM 12:20 PM Direct Reprogramming of Primary Human Astrocytes to Functional

Neurons with CRISPR-Based Epigenome Editing


Samuel Reisman - Duke University
12:20 PM 12:35 PM Tailoring a CRISPR/Cas-Based Epigenome Editor for Programmable

Chromatin Acylation and Decreased Cytotoxicity


Jacob Goell - Rice University
12:35 PM 2:00 PM Lunch

Lunch with a Legend - Wendy Bickmore - University of Edinburgh
2:00 PM 2:40 PM

Session 2 - Poster Presenter Lightning Talks

Session Chair: Aibhlin Moye-Linehan - AIChE

2:40 PM 4:30 PM Poster & Sponsor Exhibit Reception with Refreshments
 

Day 2 - 4 October 2024

Start Time End Time  
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Registration (open all day) 
9:45 AM 10:00 AM

Morning Introduction

Conference Chairs:

Nate Hathaway - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Karmella Haynes - Emory University

Pernette Verschure - University of Amsterdam

10:00 AM

10:45 AM

Keynote Presentation

Lei Stanley Qi - Stanford University

10:45 AM 11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM 12:35 PM Session 3 - Emerging Technologies in Epigenetic and Chromatin Research I

Session Chair: Albert Jeltsch - University of Stuttgart
11:15 AM 11:40 AM Dissecting mRNA decoding using long-term tracking of single ribosomes

Marvin Tanenbaum - Hubrecht Institute
11:40 AM 12:05 PM Programming the Epigenome to Dissect Chromatin Function

Jamie Hackett - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
12:05 PM 12:20 PM ATAC-Mass Enables Holistic Chromatin Accessibility Analysis By Sequencing,

Mass Cytometry, and High-Resolution Imaging


Kim Kira Witetzek - Academia Sinica
12:20 PM 12:35 PM Dynamic In Vivo mapping of the Methylproteome Using a Chemoenzymatic Approach

Jennifer Spangle - Emory University
12:35 PM 2:00 PM Lunch & Round Table Discussion

Responsible Innovation in Epigenetic Engineering

Michelle Habets - Rathenau Institute
2:00 PM 3:20 PM Session 4 - Sensing Epigenetic Modifications

Session Chair: Karmella Haynes - Emory University
2:00 PM 2:25 PM Location, location, location: Probing the functional landscape of a genomic locus

Bas van Steensel - Netherlands Cancer Institute
2:25 PM 2:50 PM

Probing chromatin-protein interactions during dynamic regulatory processes

Tuncay Baubec - Utrecht University

2:50 PM 3:05 PM Modular Dual-Color Bimolecular Anchor Detector Sensors for Locus-Specific

Readout of Epigenome Modifications in Single Cells


Anja R. Koehler - University of Stuttgart
3:05 PM 3:20 PM

Mapping Post-Translational Modifications with Tandem Epigenetic Reader

Domains Provides New Insights on the Histone Code


Matthew MeinersEpiCypher

3:20 PM 3:35 PM Deciphering the Role of Allele-Specific DNA Methylation in Autosomal Monoallelic

Expression with Long-Read Sequencing


Alexander Gimelbrant - Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
3:35 PM

4:05 PM

Afternoon Break

4:05 PM

5:00 PM Session 5 - Emerging Technologies in Epigenetic and Chromatin Research II

Session Chair: Jennifer Spangle - Emory University

4:05 PM

4:30 PM Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput

measurements in diverse contexts


Lacramioara Bintu - Stanford University
4:30 PM 4:45 PM A Combinatorial Domain Screening Platform Reveals Epigenetic Effector

Interactions for Transcriptional Perturbation


Michael Herschl - UC Berkeley
4:45 PM 5:00 PM Engineering Metabolic Cascades for Selective Chemical

Tracking of Epigenetic Signaling in Live Cells


Saulius Klimašauskas - Vilnius University
 

Day 3 - 5 October 2024

Start Time               End Time  
Start Time End Time  
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Registration (open all day) 
9:45 AM 10:00 AM

Morning Introduction

Conference Chairs:

Nate Hathaway - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Karmella Haynes - Emory University

Pernette Verschure - University of Amsterdam

10:00 AM

10:45 AM

Keynote Presentation

Angelo Lombardo - Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Session Chair: Marianne Rots - University Medical Center Groningen

10:45 AM 11:15 PM Coffee Break
11:15 PM 12:35 PM Session 6 - Computational Epigenetics

Session Chair: Isaac Hilton - Rice University
11:15 AM 11:40 AM

Constructing gene regulatory networks using epigenetic data 

Kimberly Glass - Harvard Medical School 

11:40 AM 11:55 AM The Catalytic Machinery of Protein Lysine Methyltransferases - Powerful Synergistic

Research of Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Biochemistry


Philipp Schnee - University of Stuttgart
11:55 PM 12:10 PM Analog Epigenetic Cell Memory By Graded DNA Methylation

Domitilla Del Vecchio - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:10 PM 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM 2:50 PM Session 7 - Directions in Clinical Epigenetic Engineering

Session Chair: Karmella Haynes - Emory University
1:30 PM 1:55 PM Physiological roles of aberrant DNA methylation in vitro and in vivo

Gabriella Ficz - Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University
1:55 PM 2:20 PM Do some loci have a propensity to retain ectopic methylation?

Henriette O'Geen - University of California-Davis
2:20 PM 2:35 PM Multi-Level Proteomics Reveals Epigenetic Signatures in

BCG-Mediated Macrophage Activation


Ivana Parker - University of Florida
2:35 PM 2:50 PM Systemic Comparison of dCas9-Based DNA Methylation Editing

Systems for Specificity and Stability


Majid Pahlevan Kakhki - Karolinska Institutet
2:50 PM 4:00PM Closing Remarks and Networking Time with Refreshments