Conference Information
October 30–31, 2008
Natcher Auditorium
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
The Center of Excellence in Chromosome Biology will sponsor a symposium on "Genome-wide chromatin structure and function" on October 30-31, 2008 at the Natcher Auditorium on the Bethesda campus of NIH. The meeting will feature talks given by leaders in the field of chromosome biology discussing chromatin and transcription, epigenetics, cellular organization of gene expression, DNA damage and repair, and genomic instability.
| Speakers include: | |
| Abby F. Dernburg, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
Michael Lichten, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute |
| Beth Sullivan, Ph.D., Duke University |
Munira Basrai, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute |
| Dave Gilbert, Ph.D., Florida State University |
Paul Meltzer, M.D., National Cancer Institute |
| David Symer, M.D., Ph.D., National Cancer Institute |
Shiv Grewal, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute |
| Don W. Cleveland, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego |
Stephen Baylin, M.D., Johns Hopkins University |
| Peter Fraser, Ph.D., Babraham Institute |
Terumi T. Kohwi-Shigematsu, Ph.D., University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
| Thomas Cremer, Dr. Med., LMU-Munich |
Toshi Tsukiyama, Ph.D., D.V.M., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| Ivan Ovcharenko, Ph.D., National Center for Biotechnology Information |
Vicky Chandler, Ph.D., University of Arizona |
| John Stamatoyannopoulos, Ph.D., University of Washington |
Wendy Bickmore, Ph.D., MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital |
| Keji Zhao, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
Wouter de Laat, Ph.D., Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre |
| L. Avavind, Ph.D., National Center for Biotechnology Information |
The symposium is open to all those interested in chromatin and chromosome biology. Abstract submissions for poster presentations are welcome.
