2017
James Kadonaga, UCSD, San Diego, CA
“Operating Systems, Apps, and a Novel Chromatin Structure for the Regulation of our Genes”
Tracy Johnson, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Chromatin modification and RNA processing: Unraveling the ties that bind”
John Lis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
“Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription & Its Regulation In Living Cells”
Bob Roeder, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
“Elucidation of eukaryotic transcriptional regulatory mechanisms through biochemical approaches”
Peter Becker, LMU, Munich, Germany
“Targeting the X for chromosome-wide activation”
Alex Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
“Decoding transcriptional regulation”
Mike Levine, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
“Regulation of Enhancer-Promoter Interaction in Living Drosophila Embryos”
Bob Kingston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
“TBA”
Alan Lambowitz, University of Texas, Austin, TX
“How Mobile Group II Introns Shaped the Human Genome and Enable New RNA-seq Methods for Gene Expression Analysis”
Karolin Luger, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
“20 years of the nucleosome: something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue”
Roberto Bonasio, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“RNA-mediated regulation of chromatin and epigenetics”
Emma Farley, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
“Regulatory principles governing enhancer function during development”
Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, CA
TBA
Francois Fuks, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
“DNA and RNA modifications”
Robert Schneider, HMGU, Munich, Germany
“Novel Players in Chromatin”
Marc-Marti Renom, CNAG-CRG, Barcelona, Germany
“Structure determination of genomes and genomic domains by satisfaction of spatial restraints”
Maria Elena Torres Padilla, Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Sells, Munich, Germany
“Epigenetic regulation of early development”
2016
Laura Attardi, Stanford University
Shelley Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Buratowski, Harvard Medical School
James Goodrich, University of Colorado
Edith Heard, Curie Institute, FRANCE
James Kadonaga, University of California, San Diego
Robert Kingston, Harvard Medical School
Tony Kouzarides, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
Mitchell Lazar, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Levine, Princeton University
John Lis, Cornell University
Karla Neugebauer, Yale University
Anjana Rao, LaJolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
John Rinn, Harvard University
Ramin Sheikhattar, University of Miami
Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, AUSTRIA
2015
David Bentley, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Wendy Bickmore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stephen Buratowski, Harvard Medical School
Christopher Burge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luciano Di Croce, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Joaquin Espinosa, HHMI/University of Colorado at Boulder
Eileen Furlong, EMBL, Germany
James Goodrich, University of Colorado at Boulder
Steven Hahn, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Michael Leving, University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Meyer, HHMI/University of California, Berkeley
John Rinn, Harvard University
Michael Rosbash, Brandeis University
Jessica Tyler, UT/MD Anderson Cancer Center
Johnathan Whetstine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
