Program ScheduleUpdated as of 26 October 2018 Click here to view / download the Program Booklet IHEC Annual Meeting: 26 Oct 2018
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| Time | Event |
| 08:40-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks |
| Session 1: Single Cell Analyses | |
| 09:15-09:40 |
"Exploring the Physical Genome" William Greenleaf (Stanford University) |
| 09:40-10:05 |
"Decoding the Gene Regulation Network in Human Germline Cells by Single-cell Functional Genomics Approaches" Fuchou Tang (Peking University) |
| 10:05-10:30 |
"Transcriptional and Epigenetic States of Oligodendroglia in Development and
Disease: Insight from Single Cell Omics" Gonçalo Castelo-Branco (Karolinska Institutet) |
| 10:30-10:45 |
"(Selected talk) DNA Hypermethylation encroachment at CpG Island
Borders in Cancer" Susan Clark (Garvan Institute of Medical Research) |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Developmental Epigenetics | |
| 11:15-11:40 |
"Conservation and Divergence of Chromatin Reprogramming in Early Animal
Development" Wei Xie (Tsing Hua University) |
| 11:40-12:05 |
"Variable silencing of the Repeat Genome - Implications for Epigenetic Inheritance" Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:05-12:30 |
"Crosstalk of N-A-Acetyltransferase and DNA Methylation in
Development and Disease" Li-Jung Juan (Academia Sinica) |
| 12:30-12:45 |
"(Selected talk) Enhancing Cellular Reprogramming by Directed Factor
Evolution" Ralf Jauch (The University of Hong Kong) |
| 12:45-13:15 | Rapid Fire Talks |
| 12:45-12:50 |
"Chromatin Integration Labeling Technology (ChILT): An immunoprecipitation-free
Method for Low-input Epigenomic profiling" Hiroshi Kimura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 12:50-12:55 |
"Integrative Chromatin Profiling of Primary Liver Cancers Reveals
Epigenetic Vulnerability for Effective Combination Immunotherapy" Alfred Cheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 12:55-13:00 |
"Histone H3K9 Methyltransferase G9a in Oocyte is Essential for
Preimplantation Development but Dispensable for CG Methylation
Protection" Wan Kin Au Yeung (Kyushu University) |
| 13:00-13:05 |
"Global DNA Methylation Levels Regulates PD-L1 Expression in
Melanoma" Aniruddha Chatterjee (University of Otago) |
| 13:05-13:10 |
"MyoD Induced Enhancer RNA Interacts with hnRNPL Protein via CAAA
Motif to Activate Target Gene Transcription during Myogenic
Differentiation" Huating Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 13:10-13:15 |
"Allelic Binding of Human Transcription Factors to
Genetic Variants that Are Associated with Type-2-Diebetes
Predisposition" Jian Yan (City University of Hong Kong) |
| 13:15-14:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:15 | IHEC EXEC Meeting (Closed Meeting) |
| 14:15-15:15 | Poster Session |
| Session 3: Epigenetic Regulation of Repetitive Sequences | |
| 15:15-15:40 |
"Single-cell Chromatin Accessibility Landscapes in Cell Fate Reprogramming" Jonathan Loh (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)) |
| 15:40-16:05 |
"Transposable Elements in Normal and Cancer Epigenome" Ting Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| 16:05-16:30 |
"Expanded Potential Stem Cells of Mammals" Pentao Liu (The University of Hong Kong) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Cancer Epigenetics | |
| 17:00-17:25 |
"Transcriptional Matching Identifies the Cell Lineage and Timing
for the Origin for Childhood Posterior Fossa Tumors" Michael Taylor (The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)) |
| 17:25-17:50 |
"Role of Transcription Factors and Epigenetic Enzymes in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis" Marjorie Brand (The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) |
| 17:50-18:15 |
"A Vicious Combination of Tet Repression and Increased Dnmt Activity Underlies Aberrant DNA Methylation in Human Disorders" Toshikazu Ushijima (National Cancer Center Japan) |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner (Venue: China Garden Restaurant, G/F) |
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28 Oct (Sun)
| Time | Event |
| Session 5: Transcriptional Regulation | |
| 09:00-09:25 |
"Functional Elucidation of Non Coding Regulatory Elements" Jay Shin (RIKEN) |
| 09:25-09:50 |
"Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: From the Epigenome to
Behavior " Isabelle Mansuy (University of Zurich) |
| 09:50-10:15 |
"Engaged RNA Polymerases Clarify Regulatory Architectures of the Epigenome" John Lis (Cornell University; HKUST IAS Visiting Professor) |
| 10:15-10:35 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: 3D Chromatin and RNA Structure | |
| 10:35-11:00 |
"A 3D Code in the Human Genome" Erez Lieberman-Aiden (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| 11:00-11:25 |
"Genome Organization of Dengue and Zika viruses" Yue Wan (Genome Institute of Singapore) |
| 11:25-11:40 |
"(Selected Talk) Structural Cell Biology of Eukaryotic Nuclei" Lu Gan (National University of Singapore) |
| 11:40-11:55 |
"(Selected Talk) Inference of Genomic Spatial Organization from a
Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Sample" Simon Heath (Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico) |
| 11:55-12:25 | Rapid Fire Talks |
| 11:55-12:00 |
"Epigenomic Signatures in Sperm Associated with Body Mass Index
(BMI) and Male Infertility" Sarah Kimmins (McGill University) |
| 12:00-12:05 |
"A Supervised Method for Enhancer Identification and Linkage to
Target Genes" Marcel Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| 12:05-12:10 |
"Characterization of the Molecular Consequences of CIC-knockout
and Neomorphic IDH1 R132H Mutation on Transcriptomic and Epigenomic
Landscapes" Dongsoo (Stephen) Lee (University of British Columbia) |
| 12:10-12:15 |
"Genome-wide DNA Methylation Profiling Identifies Convergent
Molecular Signatures Associated with Idiopathic and Syndromic Forms
of Autism in Post-Mortem Human Brain Tissue" Chloe Wong (King’s College London) |
| 12:15-12:20 |
"Regulation of Peripheral Heterochromatin Domain Organization via
Histone and Non-histone Protein Methylation" Shravanti Rampalli-Deshpande (Institute For Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) |
| 12:20-12:25 |
"Systematic 3D Genome Architecture Analysis in Xenopus Tropicalis" Chunhui Hou (Southern University of Science and Technology) |
| 12:25-13:25 | Lunch |
| 12:25-13:25 |
NIH 4D Nucleome Workshop [Details] (Venue: Mr and Mrs Lee Siu Lun Lecture Theater (LT-K), HKUST) |
| 13:25-14:25 | Poster Session |
| Session 7: Computational Epigenetics | |
| 14:25-14:50 |
"Decoding Epigenetic Programs in Differentiation and Disease" Christina Leslie (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 14:50-15:15 |
"3D Genome Organization in Cancer Cells" Feng Yue (The Pennsylvania State University) |
| 15:15-15:40 |
"Understanding Transcriptional Regulation by Mining Epigenomics Data" Kevin Yip (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:15 |
"(Selected Talk) The ethics of epigenetics research: An overview
of the activities of the IHEC Bioethics Workgroup" Yann Joly (McGill University) |
| 16:15-16:30 |
"(Selected Talk) Epigenetic Discrimination: Emerging Applications of Epigenetics Calling for Ethical Scrutiny" Charles Dupras (McGill University) |
| Session 8: Disease Epigenetics | |
| 16:30-16:55 |
"Coordinated Signatures of DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Human aging" Karen Conneely (Emory University) |
| 16:55-17:20 |
"Epigenomic Trajectories to Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disease" Jonathan Mill (University of Exeter Medical School) |
| 17:20-17:45 |
"Applied Epigenomics: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis" Maja Jagodic (Karolinska Institutet) |
| 17:45-18:00 |
"(Selected talk) Single Nuclei Chromatin Accessibility Analysis
Reveals Epigenetic Heterogeneity of Mouse Brain Regions" Sebastian Preissl (University of California, San Diego) |
| 18:00-18:15 | Closing Remarks |
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