Past Conference Report | Epigenetics 2018
Thank you to everyone for their participation in the 4th International Congress on Epigenetics & Chromatin which took place at London, UK (Park Inn by Radisson London Heathrow) during September 03-05, 2018. The analysis of the conference evaluation forms shows that the event was very well received as a valuable and stimulating. The majority of delegates who completed the conference evaluation forms rated the conference as a whole as “excellent” or “very good”.
The conference was initiated with the Honorable presence of the Keynote forum.
The list includes:
Title: DNA analogues for CRISPER/CAS fidelity and exon skipping
Marvin H Caruthers, University of Colorado, USA
Title: Maternal exposure to environmental particles leads to transgenerational epigenetic transmission of asthma risk
Alexey V Fedulov, Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University - Rhode Island Hospital, USA
Title: ChIPmentation: An innovative technology for fast and high quality ChIP-seq
Anne Clémence Veillard, Diagenode, Belgium
Title: Simultaneous measurement of MGMT methylation and determination of IDH1 R132H and CpG Island Methylator Phenotype (CIMP) in Gliomas using Coupled Abscription PCR Signaling (CAPS)
Michelle M. Hanna, Ribomed Biotechnologies, USA
Title: The histone H3K79 methyltransferase DOT1L regulates gene transcription and promotes neuroblastoma tumourigenesis
Tao Liu, Histone Modification Group Children's Cancer Institute, Australia
Title: Identification of DNA methylation of distal regulatory regions with causal effect on tumoriginesis
Jiangwen Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: Transcriptional overlap links DNA hypo-methylation and hyper-methylation of contiguous promoters in cancer
Charles De Smet, De Duve Institute - University of Louvain, Belgium
Title: The decline of the prevalence of cancers during organism senescence
Alvaro Macieira Coelho, French National Institute of Health, France
All the presentations were rated “excellent” by the majority, some attracted comments such as “great keynote”– really interesting and fascinating speaker”
The choice of venue was also very popular with the delegates: the majority rated the convenience of the location, its comfort and facilities and the catering as “excellent”
Of course, an enormous amount of effort goes into planning a conference such as this, and we owe thanks to all involved. First we are very grateful to the conference sponsors-
A special vote thanks is due to our speakers, moderators, chairs, student rapporteurs, for their contributions on the day, as well as the hard work devoted to preparing for their roles.
We are glad to inform that all accepted abstracts for the conference have been indexed in Hereditary Genetics: Current Research as a special issue.
We are also obliged to various delegate experts, company representatives and other eminent personalities who supported the conference by facilitating active discussion forums.
We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Members for their gracious presence, support and assistance towards the success of Epigenetics 2018.
With the unique feedbacks from the conference, we would like to announce the commencement of the 5th International Congress on Epigenetics & Chromatin during August 22-23, 2019 | Vienna, Austria
Discover the epigenetic innovations of the future. Learn, collaborate and be inspired.
Let us meet again @ Epigenetics 2019
