Shelley Berger
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Overview
Final programme, poster listings, bus schedule are now available for download.
Symposium Overview
Metabolism and epigenetics are intricately linked, playing a key role in development, cancer, immune signalling and ageing. This symposium brings together world-leading researchers exploring this nexus and will focus in particular on how metabolites and metabolic networks impact gene regulation, on recently discovered roles of metabolites in disease and how this opens novel therapeutic avenues. We will highlight enabling tools linking metabolites, their localisation within tissues and cells with the regulation of chromatin structure, gene activity and epigenetic inheritance.
Innovative molecular and computational tools that enable the detection of metabolites in time and space, as well as novel biology in powerful model organisms and clinical data have led to a renaissance of research on metabolism, especially in the context of epigenetics and gene regulation. The goal of our interdisciplinary symposium is to strengthen the connection between these fields, inspire novel ideas and enable collaborations at this frontier.
Session Topics
- Metabolic regulation of epigenetic marks
- Metabolic control of gene expression
- Metabolism in development and disease
- Systems analysis of metabolism
- Immunometabolism
- Cancer metabolism
- Immune cell metabolism
- Novel tools for metabolism and epigenetics
Speakers
Speakers and Trainers
Keynote Speakers
Marcia Haigis
Harvard Medical School
USA
Speakers
Asifa Akhtar
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Germany
Alexander Aulehla,
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Guoliang Cui
German Cancer Research Center
Germany
Sue Kaech
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
USA
Susanne Mandrup
University of Southern Denmark
Ashby Morrison
Stanford University
USA
Mihai Netea
Radboud University Medical Center
The Netherlands
John O’Neill
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
UK
Paola Picotti
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
John Andrew Pospisilik
Van Andel Research Institute
USA
Matthias Tschöp
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Germany
Benjamin Tu
UT Southwestern Medical Center
USA
Oscar Yanes
Rovira i Virgili University
Spain
Aleksej Zelezniak
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
Scientific Organisers
Theodore Alexandrov
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Andreas Ladurner
LMU Munich
Germany
Jane Mellor
University of Oxford
UK
Erika Pearce
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Germany
Conference Organisers
Inna Boesselmann
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Programme
Date: 20 - 23 Nov 2019
Location: EMBL Heidelberg