Meeting Summary Aging poses formidable scientific, medical and societal challenges. Old age is the single most important risk factor for a constellation of diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and a range of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Aging is also one of the greatest fundamental mysteries in biology, and arguably its next frontier. [...]

You are cordially invited to participate in the ninth meeting on Nuclear Organization and Function, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin on the evening of Tuesday, May 3, 2016, and will conclude with lunch on Saturday, May 7. The specific goal for this meeting is to bring together cellular [...]

We are pleased to announce the 4th Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Chromatin, Epigenetics and Transcription which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday May 9, and will conclude after lunch on May 13, 2016. The conference [...]

Meeting Description The 2016 Gordon Conference on Chromatin Structure and Function will present leading-edge research on chromatin and its role in regulating gene expression, genome function and cell states. The meeting will highlight how chromatin structures, ranging from the nucleosome – the "building block" of chromatin - up to the dynamic three-dimensional spatial organization of [...]

Welcome to the home page of the Wellcome Trust - Waddington Symposium Epigenetics in dialogue with THE GENOME The epigenetics field encompasses diverse opinions - even the definition of the word is controversial. How much our own make-up is genetic and what proportion of it is epigenetically determined is also hotly debated. Moreover, the ability [...]

We are pleased to host the 81st Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will focus on Targeting Cancer. Implications of how the underlying science can drive improvements in diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic approaches will be a major theme throughout the Symposium. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday June 1st, and end on the [...]

Join us! The 2016 Midwest Chromatin and Epigenetics Meeting (MCEM) will bring together more than 200 scientists from the American Midwest who study transcription, chromatin and epigenetics. The meeting provides an excellent opportunity to share scientific insight, foster the exchange of new ideas and to enhance collaboration. The meeting will be held from June 5–June [...]

Recent developments in sequencing technology have revealed widespread transcription of the eukaryotic genome, uncovering an overwhelming quantity of novel functional RNAs. The list of these RNAs is constantly increasing and already includes lncRNAs, circular RNAs and enhancer RNAs. The basic mechanisms of action of these RNAs remain to be elucidated and are most likely highly [...]

We are pleased to announce the 1st Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on DNA Metabolism, Genomic Stability and Diseases which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday June 13, and will conclude after lunch on June 17, 2016 The conference will include [...]

Conference Summary This SRC is focused on  the role of Methylation Dynamics in nuclear and cytoplasmic biological processes and how this modification impacts development, epigenetic cellular identity, tissue homeostasis and disease. Studies looking at how this chemical modification impacts nucleic acid and protein function across model systems and in disease models will be presented. These [...]

Transcriptional Regulation in Development and Disease will bring together researchers studying developmental biology and its disruption in disease with those examining the specific molecular and cellular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. In addition to the presentations from the invited speakers, we are also eagerly anticipating hearing from you about emerging exciting discoveries that can be considered [...]