We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Diseases 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 November 3, and will conclude after lunch on Friday November 7, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Diseases. 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. Somatic instability and Epigenetics in repeat expansion disorders

2. CGG repeat expansion disorders

3. RNA-mediated toxicity in repeat expansion disorders

4. RAN translation and polyglutamine expansions in repeat expansion diseases

5. Broader roles of short tandem repeats in health and disease

6. Therapeutic approaches to repeat expansion disorders and New Large Animal Models

Keynote Speakers:

Shoji Tsuji, the University of Tokyo

Sarah J Tabrizi, University College London

Invited Speakers:

Beverly Davidson, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Egor Dolzhenko, PacBio

Graham Erwin, Baylor College of Medicine

Fen-Biao Gao, UMass Chan Medical School

Aaron Gitler, Stanford University

Junjie Guo, Yale University

Hiroyuki Ishiura, Okayama University

Hong Jiang, Xiangya Hospital

Peng Jin, Emory University

Frank Kooy, University of Antwerp

Xiao-Jiang Li, Jinan University 

Qiong Liu, Xiangya Hospital

Bo-Xun Lu, Fudan University

Hayley Mclaughlin, University of  Michigan

Yoshitaka Nagai, Kindai University

David Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine

Harry Orr, University of Minnesota

Christopher Pearson, The Hospital for Sick Children

Andrew Sharp, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Norifumi Shioda, Kumamoto University

Shuying Sun, Johns Hopkins University

Peter Todd, University of Michigan

Arianna Tucci, Queen Mary University of London

Karen Usdin, National Institutes of Health, NIDDK

William Yang, University of California, Los Angeles

Ryan Yuen, The Hospital for Sick Children

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 November, 2024.