We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Genome Integrity and Cancer, which will be held in Suzhou, a historic garden city in southern China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday, March 23, and will conclude after the banquet on Thursday evening, and depart on Friday, March 27, 2026. 

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across multiple topics in DNA replication and DNA damage responses in normal and cancer cells. Talks will primarily be selected from the submitted abstracts based on scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunities for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Chromosomal DNA replication, replication fork stability, and replication stress

2. DNA damage response and repair 

3. Epigenetic regulation, histone remodeling, and genome structures

4. Genome rearrangement and mutagenesis mechanisms in normal and cancer cells

Keynote Speakers

Shan Zha, Columbia University

Ketan Patel, Oxford University

Invited Speakers:

Kara Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania

Anja Katrin Bielinsky, University of Virginia

Petr Cejka, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona

Irene Chiolo, University of Southern California

Dipanjan Chowdhury, Harvard University

David Cortez, Vanderbilt University

Vincenzo Costanzo, The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology

Yuan He, Johns Hopkins University

Ian Hickson, University of Copenhagen

Hyunsook Lee, Seoul National University

Li Lan, Duke University

Guo-Min Li, Chinese Institute for Medical Research

Zhenkun Lou, Mayo Clinic

Kyungjae Myung, Institute for Basic Science

Ulrich Rass, University of Sussex

Binghui Shen, City of Hope

Stephen West, Francis Crick Institute

Xiaohua Wu, Scripps Research Institute

Bing Xia, Rutgers Cancer Institute

Guoliang Xu, Fudan University

Jian Yuan, Tongji University

Xiaodong Zhang, Francis Crick Institute

Wei-Guo Zhu, Shenzhen University

Lee Zou, Duke University

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 in Suzhou in March 2026!