Workshop 3: “Developmental Programming and Reprogramming”

Location: Munich Organizer: Peter Becker Benefit to the ESRs and other trainees: This workshop aims to familiarize ESRs and other trainees on the different epigenetic studies that focus on developmental processes and especially the regulation of diverse differentiation pathways involved in embryonic stem cells and the choice of different cell fates. One representative from Diagenode (Helene Pendeville) will discuss the different analysis platforms the company offers for the study of such modifiers. One representative from ACS (J.Oliver) will discuss cell-based assays with the use of primary cells that retain the memory of their tissue of origin and reflect its state of health or disease. Provisional Program George Garinis (Heraklion) NER Factors in Development and Disease Wolf Reik (Cambridge) Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development Peter Becker (Munich) Epigenome stratification during Drosophila embryogenesis *Helene Pendeville (Liege) DNA methylation and demethylation studies John Strouboulis (Athens) GATA factors in erythroid cell differentiation Edith Heard (Paris) X chromosome inactivation in mouse embryonic stem cells Wouter de Laat (Utrecht) The pluripotent genome in three dimensions Rolf Ohlsson (Stockholm) Cancer stem cell epigenome analysis *Jo Oliver (Ayr) Primary cell-based assays