As a joint venture of five leading Barcelonian institutes, the Barcelona Conferences of Epigenetics and Cancer (BCEC) series has been launched to bring together leading investigators in the fields of chromatin research and cancer. The second edition of the BCEC series, is coorganized by B·Debate and Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program(PEBC-IDIBELL) and will focus on discussing in breadth and depth the current challenges, opportunities and perspectives of cancer epigenetics.
This meeting celebrates the 50th anniversary of the paper “Acetylation and methylation of histones and their possible role in the regulation of RNA synthesis” published by V.G. Allfrey, R Faulkner and A. E. Mirsky which was published in PNAS in 1964. The paper was seminal in establishing the relationship between histone post-translational modifications and gene expression. It also takes into account that during many years since then, Barcelona has been one of the cities in Europe with the largest concentration of researchers working on histones and chromatin.