| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Transgenerational Epigenetics |
| Discussion Leaders: Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria) and David Garcia (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Oliver Rando (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
"Daddy Issues: Paternal Effects as a High-Yield Probe for Intergenerational Epigenetics" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mitotic and Meiotic Examples of Epigenetic Inheritance |
| Exploring a range of phenotypes that are due to transmitting or inhibiting the transmission of epigenetic information within one organism's cells or across generations. |
| Discussion Leaders: Matthew Lorincz (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tina Lucas (Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Germany) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Colette Picard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Stable Transgenerational Inheritance of DNA Methylation Patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael Christopher (Emory University, USA)
"LSD1 Inhibition Links Protein Aggregates to Neuronal Cell Death in Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Martin Schmidt (VIB - Department of Plant Systems Biology - UGent, Belgium)
"Epigenetic Basis of Improved Energy Use Efficiency and High Yield in Artificially Selected Rice Epilines and Transgenerational Inheritance" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Francesca Telese (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Reelin-LRP8 Pathway Activates an Enhancer Code for Learning and Memory" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Mechanisms Mediating Epigenetic Inheritance |
| Understanding the chromatin architecture that allows the transmission of epigenetic information. |
| Discussion Leaders: Roger Deal (Emory University, USA) and Amir Moarefi (NYU Medical Center / Skirball Institute, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Adriana Gonzalez-Sandoval (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"The Effects of Heterochromatin Detachment from the Nuclear Periphery in C. elegans Embryos" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Tao Wu (Yale Stem Cell Center, USA)
"Histone Variant H2A.X Deposition Pattern Serves as a Functional Epigenetic Mark for Pluripotency" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Li Wang (University of Georgia, USA)
"Dynamic Histone Replacement and Pol II Redistribution During Heat Induced Transcriptional Activation in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Danling Zhu (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
"VRN1, a Bookmark Sitting at the 5' End of FLC" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Career Panel |
| Discussion Leaders: Viviane Labrie (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada) and Jeroen Noordhoek (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Career Positions in the Field of Epigenetics" |
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- Adam Berger (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, USA)
- Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Chris Gunter (Marcus Autism Center, USA)
- Sriharsa Pradhan (New England Biolabs, Inc, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
