The Repetitive and Mobile Genome

Suzhou, China

April 7-11, 2025  

Abstract deadline: January 31, 2025

 

Organized by:

Gael Cristofari, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice

Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua University

Mikiko Siomi, The University of Tokyo

Zhao Zhang, Duke University


We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on The Repetitive and Mobile Genomewhich will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday April 7, and will conclude after lunch on Friday April 11, 2025.


The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Repetitive and Mobile Genome. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.


Major Topics:

1. Aging, cancer, and other diseases

2. Domestication and adaptation

3. Silencing and epigenetic regulation

4. Evolution and genomics

5. Mobility mechanism

6. Molecular impacts

7. Physiological consequences

8. Therapeutics and biotech applications


Keynote Speakers:

Kathleen Burns, Harvard University

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University


Invited Speakers:

Tugce Aktas, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Miguel Branco, Queen Mary University of London

Emilie Brasset, Université Clermont Auvergne

Gael Cristofari, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice

Shaorong Gao, Tongji University

Lin He, University of California Berkeley

Johan Jakobsson, Lund University

John LaCava, Rockefeller University

Guanghui Liu, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nian Liu, Tsinghua University

John Moran, University of Michigan

Valerio Orlando, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Young Seok Ju, KAIST, Daejeon

Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua University

Yoichi Shinkai, RIKEN

Mikiko Siomi, The University of Tokyo

Taiko To, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Ting Wang, Washington University

Zhiping Weng, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Zhao Zhang, Duke University

Zhiguo Zhang, Columbia University


And more...


We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  
Stipends


We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in April, 2025.