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2009 Epigenetics
Child Health and Epigenetics, Developmental Plasticity and Programming
Register below to find the video presentation of the conference.Organisation
Foundation Växthuset for children in collaboration with European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE).Supported by Pfizer.
Organizing committee
Kerstin Albertsson WiklandJean-Claude Carel
Claudine Junien
Ze'ev Hochberg
Ken Ong
When Where
May 15-17 2009, Marstrand, SwedenLocation: Villa Maritime, Marstrand, Sweden
Conference organizer
SemSer-Seminar Servicee-mail: sten.renstad@semser.se
info@vaxthusetforbarn.se
Scientific correspondence
Kerstin Albertsson Wiklande-mail: kerstin.albertsson-wikland@pediat.gu.se
Program
Friday, May 15, 2009
09.00 Kerstin Albertsson Wikland (Göteborg) Welcome address
Session 1
Introduction to epigenetics and child health
Moderator: Cheri Deal (Montreal)
09.30 Miguel Constancia (Cambridge) The molecular basis for epigenetics
10.30 Break
Session 2
Epigenetics in prenatal and postnatal developmental programming
Moderator: Cheri Deal (Montreal)
11.00 Zeev Hochberg (Haifa) Plasticity in life history transitions
11.45 Emma Whitelaw (Brisbane) Heritability of epigenetic changes
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Robert Feil (Montpellier) Epigenetic mechanisms in genomic imprinting
14.15 Raphael Scharfmann (Paris) Epigenetics and pancreas differentiation
15.00 Poster tour I (Coffee/tea will be served)
Moderator: Ken Ong (Cambridge)
16.15 David J Waxman (Boston) Epigenetics and sexual dimorphism of gene expression in the liver
17.00 -18.00 General discussion
Moderators: Zeev Hochberg (Haifa) and Robert Feil (Montpellier)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Session 3
Xeno-epigenomics: Environmental phenotypic plasticity in programming
Moderator: Martin Ritzén (Stockholm)
08.30 Pascal Boileau (Paris) Intrauterine growth from a clinical perspective
09.15 Yves Le-Bouc (Paris) Imprinted genes and intrauterine growth
10.00 Break
10.15 Poster tour II
Moderator: Ze'ev Hochberg (Haifa)
11.15 Ken Ong (Cambridge) Postnatal growth and development
12.00 Lunch break
13.00 Claudin Junien (Paris) Nutritional epigenomics: placenta
13.45 Karen Lillycrop (Southampton, UK) Effects of maternal under- and overnutrition during pregnancy and lactation
14.30 Michael Skinner (Pullman, USA) Transgenerational actions of endocrine disruptors on disease: Epigenetic ghosts in your genome
15.30 Break
16.00-17.00 General Discussion
Moderators: Claudine Julien (Paris) and Ken Ong (Cambridge)
Walk on the Marstrand Island
Dinner at Marstrand Castle
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Session 4
Epigenetics and childhood disease
Moderator: Yves Le-Bouc (Paris)
08.00 Jean-Claude Carel (Paris) Epigenetics in complex childhood diseases: obesity and diabetes
08.45 Cheri Deal (Montreal) The Turner syndrome paradigm of X linked imprinting
09.30 Break
10.00 Robert Waterland (Houston) Developmental epigenomics in the postnatal hypothalamus
10.45 Moshe Szyf (Montreal) Epigenetics and behavior pathologies
11.30 Mario Fraga (Madrid) The role of epigenetics in aging and age related diseases
12.15 Lunch break
13.15 Allan Sheppard (Auckland) Plasticity in developmental programming
14.15-15.15 General Discussion
Moderators: Jean Claude Carel (Paris) and Robert Waterland (Houston)
15.15 Break
15.20-16.30 Session 5
Roundtable discussion
Moderators: Claudine Junien (Paris), Ken Ong (Cambridge), Kerstin Albertsson Wikland (Göteborg)
16.30 End of meeting
