Understanding how cell fate is controlled is fundamental to all aspects of biology. Potentially, there are many states that cells could adopt based on thousands of genetic and epigenetic elements, but in reality cell fate is constrained by signals from surrounding cells and environments. One clear example of this was shown by the transfer of a nucleus from a melanoma cell into a mouse oocyte, which produced a totipotent embryonic cell. Why and how does this reprogramming occur? This conference aims to bring together researchers working on nuclear reprogramming, cancer genomics and the functional analysis of cancer cells to see just how much we can learn from one another.
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- Nuclear Reprogramming and the Cancer Genome
Nuclear Reprogramming and the Cancer Genome
Nature - 21 Feb 2016
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Topics Include
- Nuclear reprogramming
- Cancer genomics
- Functional analysis
Keynotes:
- Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands)
- Huck Hui Ng (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Speakers:
- Iannis Aifantis (NYU School of Medicine, USA)
- Sung Hee Baek (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Joseph Ecker (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
- Elaine Fuchs (The Rockefeller University, USA)
- Fred Gage (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
- William Greenleaf (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
- Reuben Harris (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Minnesota, USA)
- Trey Ideker (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Catriona Jamieson (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Louise Laurent (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Wei Li (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
- Charles Mullighan (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA)
- Andras Nagy (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada)
- Anjana Rao (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, USA)
- Frederic de Sauvage (Genentech, USA)
- Ludovic Vallier (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Jianlong Wang (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
- Yasuhiro Yamada (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Kang Zhang (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Meeting Details
Date | 21 Feb 2016 |
Location | Estancia La Jolla Hotel La Jolla, California, USA Get Directions |
Organizers | Shu Chien, Natalie DeWitt, Tiago Faial, Catriona Jamieson, Xin Lu, Bing Ren, Sarah Seton-Rogers, Yang Xu, & Kang Zhang |