5th Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting

With the establishment of the “Epigenetic Focus” at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE), an international meeting on the broad area of epigenetics and chromatin was introduced at the institute. The three-day meeting takes place every second year in the 1st week of December.

The Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting has become a central conference in the field of epigenetics and chromatin. Organized by Asifa Akhtar and Thomas Jenuwein, four meetings took place in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and another one is scheduled for 2018.

The program also features a keynote lecture by a Max Planck Director from a different institute, e.g. the vice-president of the Max Planck Society Herbert Jäckle (2010), Stefan Jentsch (2012), Hans Schöler (2014) and Manfred Gahr (2016). About 120 scientists participated in previous meetings and about 60 posters were presented.

See this years line-up:

Keynote speaker

ANTHONY HYMAN
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Confirmed speakers

WENDY BICKMORE
University of Edingburgh, UK

ELISABETH BINDER
MPI of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

MARC BÜHLER
FMI Basel, Switzerland

GIACOMO CAVALLI
Institute of Human Genetics – CNRS, Montpellier, France

STIRLING CHURCHMAN
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

PATRICK CRAMER
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

ANNE FERGUSON-SMITH
University of Cambridge, UK

AMANDA FISHER
Imperial College London, UK

SHIV GREWAL
Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda (MD), USA

EDITH HEARD
Institut Curie, Paris, France

STEVE JACOBSEN
University of California, Los Angeles, USA / Howard Hughes Medical Institute

SAMIE R. JAFFREY
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA

GARY KARPEN
Lawrence Berkely National Lab, UC Berkeley, USA

ALBERTO KORNBLIHTT
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

TONY KOUZARIDES
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

ALEXANDER MEISSNER
MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

JÜRG MÜLLER
MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

GEETA NARLIKAR
University of California, San Francisco, USA

CHRISTOF NIEHRS

IMB Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

DANNY REINBERG
NYU Langone, New York, USA

BOB ROEDER
The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

RAMIN SHIEKHATTAR
University of Miami, USA

MARC TIMMERS
University of Freiburg, Germany

The registration is open from 1 April 2018: See you at the Max PlanckFreiburg Epigenetics Meeting 2018