We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Nuclear Architecture and Function which 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 September 1, and will conclude after lunch on Friday September 5, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Nuclear Architecture and Function. 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. New 3D genome mapping technologies

2. 3D genome imaging

3. AI-assisted computational algorithms for 3D genome analysis

4. 3D genome in cancer and other diseases

5. 3D genome in development and brain

6. Mechano genomics

7. Subnuclear organization

8. Repetitive elements (Dark matter of 3D genome)

9. 3D organization and enhancer-promoter interactions

Keynote Speaker:

Eileen Furlong, EMBL

Bing Ren, University of California San Diego

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Peking University

Invited Speakers:

Gerd Blobel, University of Pennsylvania

Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Maria Pia Cosma, Centre for Genomic Regulation

Mathias Francois, Centenary Institute

Melissa Fullwood, Nanyang Technological University

Inkyung Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Jop Kind, Hubrecht Institute

Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Danny Leung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Mofang Liu, Institute of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, CAS

Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University

Kazuhiro Maeshima, National Institute of Genetics

Yijun Ruan, Zhejiang University

Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua University

G.V. Shivashankar, Paul Scherrer Institute

Chia-Lin Wei, University of Washington

Elzo de Wit, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Wei Xie, Tsinghua University

Feng Yue, Northwestern University

Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego

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We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 September, 2025.