Program
8th Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting 2026
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Day 2 || Session 3 | Poster session | Session 4 |
Day 3 || Keynote | Session 5 | Session 6
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Day 1 – Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome Address |
Session 1: Cell Type Identities
Session Chairs:
Asifa Akhtar & Thomas Jenuwein | |
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| 13:10 - 13:35 | Bing Ren (20 min)
»Epigenetic and 3D genome reprogramming during the aging of human hippocampus« |
| 13:35 - 13:55 | Stefan Niekamp (15 min)
»Single-molecule imaging reveals mechanisms of SWI/SNF and PRC1 competition« |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Amanda Fisher (20 min)
»Cell identity and Mitosis« |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Vijay Ramani (15 min)
»Programmed, patterned, and pervasive nucleosomal distortion on mammalian chromatin fibers in vivo « |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Haruhiko Koseki (15 min)
»SKP1A-mediated degradation of PRC2 facilitates activation of Polycomb-silenced genes« |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session 2: Transcription Regulation
Session Chairs:
Amanda Fisher & Nicola Iovino | |
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| 15:30 - 15:55 | Ibrahim Cissé (20 min)
»Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells« |
| 15:55 - 16:20 | Ramin Shiekhattar (20 min)
»RNA Integrator in cell type specification « |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Yi-Hsuan Lo (15min)
»Isolated DNA repeat units nucleate heterochromatin through Integrator-coupled transcriptional attenuation« |
| 16:40 - 17:05 | Stirling Churchman (20 min)
»RNA polymerases reshape chromatin architecture and couple transcription on individual fibers« |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Asifa Akhtar (20 min)
»Epigenetic regulation by the MSLs: Old complex, new facts« |
| 17:30- 17:55 | Ali Shilatifard (20 min)
»Molecular insight into transcription elongation regulatory mechanisms and epigenetics deliver critical targets for cancer therapeutics« |
| Conference Dinner | 18:00 - 20:00 |
New Dimensions
Session Chair: Asifa Akhtar | |
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| 20:00 - 20:25 | Marieke Oudelaar (20 min)
»The interplay between nucleosome positioning and higher-order
3D genome folding« |
| 20:25 - 20:50 | Rong Fan (20 min)
»Spatial Multi-Omics Mapping of Tissue Development,
Aging and Disease« |
| 21:00 | Reception |
Day 2 – Thursday, December 5th, 2024
| Session 3: Inheritance Session Chairs:
Shelley Berger & Yang Shi | |
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| 09:00 - 09:25 | Danny Reinberg (20 min)
»Polycomb, inheritance and disease« |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Dirk Schübeler (20 min)
»A chromatin-dependent motif syntax defines differentiation trajectories« |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Sara Hägg (20 min)
»Longitudinal studies of DNA methylation in human aging« |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Yehudit Bergmann (15 min)
»Epigenetically induced changes in genome function« |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Roberto Bonasio (15 min)
»Epigenetics of brain plasticity and behavioral reprogramming in ants« |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Coffee Break |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Geeta Narlikar (20 min)
»ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin condensates
uncovers new mesoscale effects« |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Philipp Voigt (15 min)
»Nucleosomal asymmetry regulates reader recruitment and
poising at bivalent promoters« |
| 12:10 - 12:35 | Gary Karpen (20 min)
»Heterochromatin condensate formation and compartmentalization
in vivo and in vitro « |
| 12:35 - 13:00 | Wendy Bickmore (20 min)
»Enhancer-promoter communication – is close enough, enough?« |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Poster session |
Session 4: Cancer and Disease Session Chairs:
Wendy Bickmore & Dirk Schübeler | |
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| 16:00 - 16:25 | Shelley Berger (20 min)
»Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease« |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | Gerda Egger (15 min)
»Identification of a stable and prognostic tumor-specific DNA methylation signature in patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids« |
| 16:45 - 17:05 | Abid Khan (15 min)
»A SETD2-CDK1-Lamin axis maintains nuclear integrity and genome stability« |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Feng Yue 20 min)
»Enhancer-hijacking and 3D genome alteration in human cancer« |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Juliane Glaser (15 min)
»Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles causing developmental limb phenotypes« |
| 17:50 - 18:15 | Yang Shi (20 min)
»Chromatin regulation and cancer« |
| 18:30 | Free evening / Christmas market 🎄 * |
| 20:00 | Speaker’s Dinner |
Day 3 – Friday, December 6th, 2024
Keynote Lecture
Session Chair: Thomas Jenuwein | |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 | Patrick Cramer
»Transcription of the genome: from molecular mechanism to cellular regulation« |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
Session 5: Genome Organization
Session Chairs:Geneviève Almouzni &
Giacomo Cavalli | |
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| 10:15 - 10:40 | Rob Martienssen (20 min)
Epigenetic states |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Hiten Madhani (20 min)
»Epigenetic memory over geological timescales« |
| 11:05 - 11:25 | Mo Motamedi (15 min)
»lncRNA-mediated heterochromatin initiation at centromeres« |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Deborah Bourc’his (20 min)
»Novel actors in chromatin-based control of transposable elements « |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Ayele Denboba (15 min)
»Modelling epigenetic inheritance through gut microbiota-germline interactions« |
| 12:10 - 12:35 | Yoichi Shinkai (20 min)
»DNA methylation regulated by the HELLS-CDCA7 chromatin-remodeling complex« |
| 12:35 - 12:45 | Poster Prize (Sponsors) |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Session 6: Higher Order Structuring
Session Chair:
Stirling Churchman & Ibrahim Cissé | |
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| 14:00 - 14:25 | Katerina Kraft (Howard Chang Lab) (20 min)
»Cancer genes beyond chromosomes« |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Antoine Peters (15 min)
»Preventing CpG hypermethylation in oocytes safeguards mouse development« |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Nicola Iovino (20 min)
»Epigenetic inheritance« |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Giacomo Cavalli (20 min)
»The role of Polycomb proteins and 3D genome architecture in epigenetic inheritance and cancer« |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Jumana Alhaj Abed (15 min)
»Uncovering homologous chromosome communication in somatic cells« |
| 15:55 - 16:25 | Coffee Break |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Jamie Hackett (20 min)
»Precision Perturbations to Dissect Epigenome Function« |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Joyce Man (15 min)
»Molecular dissecting the role of Polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2 during initiation of X-chromosome inactivation« |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Valentin Flury (15 min)
»Recycling of parental histones during DNA replication promotes
epigenetic memory« |
| 17:30 - 17:55 | Geneviève Almouzni (20 min)
»Histone variants and their partners shaping chromatin and cell fate« |
| 17:55 - 18:20 | Carl Wu (20 min)
»The biogenesis and regulatory dynamics of chromatin
opening for transcription« |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 | Party |
Shuttle busses to & from the venue
Shuttle buses will be provided daily for transportation to and from the venue. The buses will depart from and return to the Novotel Hotel, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 2, Freiburg.
Shuttle Bus Schedule
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
» 11:45 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
» 10:00 PM: 1st shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel
» 10:30 PM: 2nd shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel
Thursday, December 5, 2024
» 08:30 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
» 06:15 PM: two shuttles depart from Max Planck Institute to Novotel
Friday, December 6, 2024
» 08:30 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
» 09:30 PM: 1st shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel
» 11:30 PM: 2nd shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel