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We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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.