Top scientists to present at Epigenetic Control and Cellular Plasticity symposium

EVENT: The second annual Epigenetic Control and Cellular Plasticity symposium will focus on how epigenetic control and chromatin remodeling contribute to various processes that lead to cellular plasticity.

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday & Friday, Dec. 12-13, at the At the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, Calif.

INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact Catherine Cao at cepmet@uci.edu or 949-824-2961. Attendance and parking are complimentary for media who RSVP in advance. For more information: http://www.biochem.uci.edu/Symposium/Info.htm

HIGHLIGHTS: Speakers include:

Shelley L. Berger, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Gerald Crabtree, MD, Stanford University

Jean-Marc Egly, PhD, IGBMC, INSERM (Strasbourg, France)

Ronald M. Evans, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Gordon Hager, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

James T. Kadonaga, PhD, University of California, San Diego

Peter Kaiser, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Barbara J. Meyer, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Ali Mortazavi, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Valerio Orlando, PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

Barbara Panning, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

J. Andrew Pospisilik, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (Freiburg, Germany)

Eric M. Verdin, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Yi Zhang, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Workshop on Biocomputing in Genomics and Epigenomics

Pierre Baldi, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Xuegang Sun, PhD, Zymo Research Corporation

The symposium Facebook page includes links to speakers' websites. Please visit: https://www.facebook.com/EpigeneticsSymposium

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