Chromatin, Epigenetics, and Nuclear Architecture in Stem Cells

Chromatin, comprised of DNA, histones, and additional structural proteins, is the fundamental unit of life. Essentially all cellular processes are governed by changes in chromatin structure, which, in turn, regulates gene expression. Such changes are particularly pertinent in stem cells, which maintain potency on the one hand, but undergo massive changes upon differentiation on the other. This ISSCR Digital series is developed in parallel with the Stem Cell Reports upcoming special issue on nuclear architecture. Registration is now open!

Co-Organizers

Eran Meshorer, PhD
Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Kathrin Plath, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, USA

Program

Digital Meeting 1
23 November, 2020
20:00 - 21:30 EST (view your time zone)

Registration for Meeting 1 is closed.

Matthias Stadtfeld, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine , USA

Jeanne B. Lawrence, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

Wei Xie, PhD
Tsinghua University, China

Myriam Hemberger, PhD
University of Calgary, Canada

Digital Meeting 2
30 November, 2020
10:00 - 11:30 EST (view your time zone)

Registration for Meeting 2 is closed.

Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Axel Imhof, PhD
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Micha Drukker, PhD
Leiden University, Netherlands

Raffaella Santoro, PhD
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Digital Meeting 3
7 December, 2020
20:00 - 21:30 EST (view your time zone)

Jose M. Polo, PhD with Anja Knaupp, PhD
Monash University, Australia

Effie Apostolou, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

David Gilbert, PhD
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, USA

Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Digital Meeting 4
14 December, 2020
10:00 - 11:30 EST (view your time zone)

Edith Heard, PhD
EMBL, Germany

Ana Pombo, PhD
Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Floriana Della Ragione, PhD
Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso", Italy

Wolf Reik, MD
The Babraham Institute, UK

Chromatin, Epigenetics, and Nuclear Architecture in Stem Cells featured image credit: Eran Meshorer, PhD, Edmond & Lily Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Israel

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