The Life Science Institute (LSI), in partnership with Epigenetics-Hub and Genome Centre, within Queen Mary University London (QMUL) is organising an exciting week-long event (from 1st of July to 5th of July) on New Horizons in Genomics. Come and join us for the opportunity to hear about the theme Emerging concepts in genome regulation on 2nd July 2019. A PhD/postdoc talk will be selected from abstracts. Please email abstracts to p.m.madapura@qmul.ac.uk.

Speakers and title of the talk

12.45 Registration

13.10 Opening remarks

13.15 Dan Bose: (The University of Sheffield), Enhancer RNAs: regulators of histone acetylation and transcription 

13.40 Sarah de Val: (The University of Oxford), Enhancer analysis as a tool to understand development

14.05 Monika Gullerova: (The University of Oxford), A role for transfer RNA-derived small RNAs in the regulation of gene expression

14.30 Radu Zabet: (University of Essex) Chromatin architecture reorganisation during neuronal cell differentiation in the Drosophila genome

14.55 Coffee Break

15.35 Skirmantas Kriaucionis: (The University of Oxford) The function of modified DNA bases in the genome

16.00 Eleni Tomazou: (The Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna) Ewing Sarcoma: An Enhancer Disease with Widespread Epigenetic Heterogeneity

16.25 Arnau Sebe Pedros: (Centre for Genome Regulation, Barcelona) Early metazoan cell type diversity and regulation by single-cell RNA-seq analysis

16.50 Miguel Branco:  (Queen Mary University of London) Transposable elements as a source of regulatory elements in development and disease

17.15 Nadezda Fursova (PhD/postdoc talk): Synergy between variant PRC1 complexes defines Polycomb-mediated gene repression 

17.30 Drinks