Program
The symposium has afternoon sessions with presentations by invited speakers and short talks. It also proposes an independent workshop “Meet the Experts: Questions and Answers” with 3 speakers (limited to 25 people, separate registration).
Day 1: Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
14:00-14:10 (CET) Welcome and introduction by Isabelle Mansuy
Session 1: Environmental epigenetics
14:10-14:50 (CET) Cecilie Svanes, University of Bergen, Norway
Epidemiological studies of exposures during the pre-puberty period and future offspring health.
14:50-15:30 (CET) Adam Watkins, University of Nottingham, UK
Paternal programming of offspring development and ill-health.
15:30-16:10 (CET) Jordana Bell, Kings College London, UK
Genetic impacts on human methylome variation
16:10-16:30 (CET) Break
16:30-17:10 (CET) Emilie Rissman, North Carolina State University, USA
Transgenerational actions of BPA on behavior and synapses.
17:10-17:50 (CET) Michael Skinner, Washington State University, USA
Environmentally-induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of pathology: Systems epigenetic disease etiology and generational toxicology.
Day 2: Thursday, August 26th, 2021
Session 2: The power of single cell approaches
14:00-14:40 (CET) Fuchou Tang, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, China
Decoding the epigenetic regulation of human germline cell development by single cell genomics approaches.
14:40-15:20 (CET) Gavin Kelsey, The Babraham Institute, UK
Intergenerational impact of maternal high-fat diet – A single-cell analysis.
15:20-15:30 (CET) A piece of art by Sandrine Donnio Renaud
15:30-15:45 (CET) Break
15:45-16:25 (CET) Wolf Reik, The Babraham Institute, UK
Single cell multi-omics landscape of development and ageing.
16:25-16:40 (CET) Kai Kleber, Dovetails Genomics, UK
HiChIP and promoter capture Hi-C: Using MNase-based kits to investigate transcriptional control.
17:00-18:30 (CET) Workshop Meet the experts (25 people maximum, registration needed)
Noora Kotaja, Gavin Kelsey and Michael Skinner.
Moderator: Rodrigo Arzate-Meija, Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics, University and ETH Zurich
Day 3: Friday, August 27th, 2021
Session 3: Mechanisms
14:00-14:40 (CET) Noora Kotaja , University of Turku, Finland
Germline RNAs in the control of male fertility and epigenetic inheritance of diet-induced metabolic conditions.
14:40-15:20 (CET) Anita Öst, Linköping University, Sweden
Small RNAs transmit big epigenetic message: Intergenerational reprogramming of metabolism
15:20-15:30 (CET) Break
15:30-15:45 (CET) Bermans Iskandar, University of Wisconsin, USA
Transgenerational disruption of DNA methylation marks by ancestral folate supplementation is associated with enhanced axonal regeneration.
15:45-16:00 (CET) Anara Alshanbayeva, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Circulating extracellular vesicles are vectors of communication with the germline that play a role in epigenetic inheritance
16:00-16:40 (CET) Brett Nixon, University of Newcastle, Australia
The role of the epididymis in linking paternal exposures to alteration of the sperm epigenome (Talk recorded).