We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on The Repetitive and Mobile Genome 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 April 12, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, April 16, 2027.

The conference will include seven 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:

Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Ting Wang, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis

Invited Speakers:

Guillaume Bourque, McGill University

Gael Cristofari, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice

Yarui Diao, Duke University

Geoff Faulkner, University of Queensland

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University

Vera  Gorbunova, University of Rochester

Tetsuji Kakutani, National Institute of Genetics

Shigehiro Kuraku, National Institute of Genetics

E. Alice Lee, Harvard Medical School

Pascale Lesage, Institut de Recherche Saint Louis

Wei Li, Institute of Zoology, CAS

Hongqing Liang, Zhejiang University

Sara Macias Ribela, University of Edinburgh

Hiroshi Nishimasu, The University of Tokyo

Makoto Saito, RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute

Xiaohua Shen, Tsinghua University

Mikiko Siomi, The University of Tokyo

Haruhiko Siomi, Keio University

Fuchou Tang, Peking University

Marty Taylor, Brown University

Jose Tubio, University of Santiago de Compostela

Ruiming Xu, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciencs

Zhao Zhang, 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We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 at Suzhou in April, 2027.