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Frontiers in epigenetics: challenges for chemistry, biology and medicine

8 May 2009

The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK



Chairs:
Christopher Schofield (University of Oxford, UK)
Darcey Black (Schering-Plough Corporation, UK)
Friday 8 May 2009
10:15 - 10:45
Registration with tea/coffee
10:45 - 11:00
Welcome and introduction
Christopher Schofield (University of Oxford, UK)
11:00 - 11:30
Inhibitors for enzymes involved in epigenetic modifications
Arasu Ganesan (University of Southampton, UK)
11:30 - 12:00
Recent advances in mass spectrometry and application to epigenetics
Benedikt Kessler (Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford, UK)
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch and networking
13:30 - 14:00
Epigenetic mechanisms in human disease
Moshe Szyf (McGill University, Canada)
14:00 - 14:30
Advances in CHIP-seq and next generation sequencing
Peter J Park (Harvard University, USA)
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee/tea break
15:00 - 15:30
Lysine methylation as epigenetic mechanism
Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK)
15:30 - 16:00
Chemical probes for epigenetic signalling
Udo Oppermann (Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, UK)