We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Chromatin, Epigenetics & Transcription 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 May 18, and will conclude after lunch on Friday May 22, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Chromatin, Epigenetics & Transcription. 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. Chromatin assembly and chromatin structure

2. DNA and RNA modifications

3. Histone modifications

4. Histone variant and chromatin remodeling

5. Chromatin and cellular function

Keynote Speakers:

Nada Jabado, McGill University

Yi Zhang, Harvard Medical School and HHMI

Invited Speakers:

Karen Adelman, Harvard Medical School

Marisa Bartolomei, University of Pennsylvania

Deborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie

Christa Buecker, Max Perutz Laboratories

Yali Dou, University of Southern California

Jamie Hackett, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Yuka Iwasaki, RIKEN

Jian Jin, Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery

Hitoshi Kurumizaka, The University of Tokyo

Guohong Li, Wuhan University

Ryan Lister, The University of Western Australia

Raphael Margueron, Institut Curie

Marieke Oudelaar, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

Bing Ren, Columbia University/New York Genome Center

Noriko Saitoh, The Cancer Institute of JFCR

Yang Shi, Oxford University

Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Liling Wan, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Wei Xie, Tsinghua University

Guoliang Xu, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Yanhui Xu, Fudan University

Hongtao Yu, Westlake University

Zhiguo Zhang, Columbia University

Bing Zhu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 May, 2026.