Gene Regulatory Mechanisms and Development symposium

 

Abcam is pleased to announce the Gene Regulatory Mechanisms and Development Symposium to be held Friday October 24th 2008 at Harvard Medical School. 

Deadline for oral abstracts: Wednesday August 27th 2008

Deadline for poster abstracts: Monday September 22nd 2008

From: Fri, 24/10/2008 - 08:00
To: Fri, 24/10/2008 - 17:00

Register online and submit your abstract

Venue

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Organizers

Laurie Boyer & Abcam

 

Invited speakers

* Keynote Speaker: Phil Sharp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
* Kami Ahmad (Harvard Medical School, Department of BCMP)
* Bradley Bernstein (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Genome Biology and Cell Circuits)
* Mitzi Kuroda (Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Department of Genetics)
* Robert Kingston (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital)
* Jeannie Lee (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital/Department of Genetics and Pathology)
* Danesh Moazed (Harvard Medical School/Department of Cell Biology)
* Melissa Moore (HHMI and University of Massachusetts Medical School)
* Richard Young (Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

Topics

* Chromatin structure and function
* Non coding RNA in dosage compensation and chromatin organization
* RNA splicing and regulation
* Genomic analysis of gene regulation

 

Call for abstracts

Abstracts (oral and poster) are now invited which fit the themes outlined above.