Preliminary Program
Day 1 – December 2
1:00 p.m.
Gathering and Lunch at Campus Diner
Session: Epigenome in Adaptation and Populations
3:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m.
5.45 p.m.
Welcome address
Anne Ferguson-Smith
University of Cambridge
Shelley Berger
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Schneider
IGBMC, Strasbourg
Coffee break
Moussa Benhamed
KAUST
Two short talks by participants
Evening
Gala/Reception Dinner
3:45 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
4:45 p.m.
5.15 p.m.
Day 2 – December 3
Session: Epigenetic Inheritance
9:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
Vincent Colot
ENS, Paris
Ueli Grossniklaus
University of Zurich
Rob Martienssen
CSHL, HHMI
One short talk by participants
Coffee break
Edith Heard
Institut Curie, Paris
Two short talks by participants
1:00 p.m.
3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Evening
Lunch at the Campus Diner
Poster Session 1 at the Campus Library
Dinner with speakers
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
Day 3 - December 4
Session: Nutrition and Metabolism
9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
Eric Verdin
University of California, San Francisco
Paolo Sassone-Corsi
University of California, Irvine
Axel Imhof
University of Munich
Wolfgang Fischle
KAUST
Coffee break
Two short talks by participants
12:30 p.m.
Lunch at the Campus Diner
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:30am
Session: Neuro-Epigenetics
1:30 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
Li-Huei Tsai
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Antonella Riccio
University College London
Carmen Sandi
EPFL, Lausanne
Coffee break
Emiliana Borrelli
UCI, California
Pierre Magistretti
KAUST
Two short talks by participants
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Evening
Poster Session 2 at the Campus Library
Dinner with speakers
2:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m.
3:45 p.m.
Day 4 – December 5
KAUST Day
8:30 a.m.
Afternoon
Snorkeling trip
Visit in small groups to several KAUST facilities:
Core Labs, Museum, KAUST Mosque, etc.
Day 5 - December 6
Session: Genome and Epigenome in Cell Identity and Evolution
9:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
Fred Gage
The Salk Institute
Valerio Orlando
KAUST
Maria Torres Padilla
IGBMC, Strasbourg
Timothy Ravasi
KAUST
Coffee break
John Rinn
Harvard University
Two short talks by participants
1:00 p.m.
Lunch at the Campus Diner
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
Session: Tissue Regeneration and Cell Reprogramming
2:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Evening
Ken Zaret
University of Pennsylvania
Renato Paro
ETH Basel
Rick Young
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Coffee break
Rudolph Jaenisch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
The Salk Institute
Dinner and Departure