Meeting background

Epigenetic mechanisms play pivotal roles in development, differentiation and cell identity. Epigenetic regulation is influenced by environmental factors such as nutrition and inappropriate epigenetic regulation contributes to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. This meeting will cover our current understanding of epigenetic modifications and the functional role they play in regulating development and contributing to disease biology.

Topics

• DNA methylation
• Gene regulation
• Histone modifications
• Non-coding RNA
• Stem cell fate
• Imprinting
• Epigenomics

Abstract submission deadline: 9 October 2012.

Abstract submission is now available.

Earlybird registration deadline: 12 November 2012.
Online registration is now available.
Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly researchers in the early stages of their career, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.

Student Bursaries are available for this meeting.

Reviews by the speakers, based on their presentations at this major international meeting, will be published exclusively in Biochemical Society Transactions (Volume 41, part 2) and as a stand-alone volume of the Biochemical Society Symposia series.
Annual Symposium: Epigenetic mechanisms in development and disease has been approved by the Society of Biology for the purpose of CPD, this event may be counted as 54 CPD credits.