Schedule of Events*
*Updated 2/14/13
| 7:30 am | Registration |
| 8:50 am | Welcome, Beverly Emerson, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 9:00 am | Stephen Baylin, Johns Hopkins University "Cancer Specific DNA Hypermethylation and Gene Silencing in Cancer - How Does it Happen and Why is it Important?" |
| Short Talk by Mara Sherman, Salk Institute for Biological Studies "A Novel Role for Nuclear Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Stromal Remodeling" | |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am | Howard Chang, Stanford University "Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs" |
| 11:50 am | Carsten Merkwirth “The Histone Demethylase KDM7B Determines Mitochondrial ETC-mediated Longevity of C. elegans” |
| 12:20 am | Lunch/Poster Session |
| 2:00 pm | James Bradner, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute "Chemical Modulation of Chromatin Structure and Function" |
| 3:00 pm | Short Talk by Horng Ou, Salk Institute for Biological Studies "A Structural Basis for the Assembly and Functions of a Viral Polymer That Inactivates Multiple Tumor Suppressors" |
| 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 pm | C. David Allis, The Rockefeller University "Varying and Poisoning the 'Histone Code': a Role of the Histone Variant H3.3 in Human Cancers" |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session and Social Hour |