Chromatin Regulatory Mechanisms in Pluripotency
October 5 - 8, 2008

This meeting will promote understanding of the role of chromatin regulatory mechanisms in pluripotency and will help resolve controversy surrounding the role of specific genes and processes. Current evidence suggests that stem cells have a specific chromatin state essential to their self-renewal and ability to give rise to multiple lineages. A number of genes have been implicated in establishing this pluripotent state, and some of these are also likely to be involved in reprogramming somatic nuclei to a pluripotent state. A clear understanding of these mechanisms could pave the way to the production of cell types and organs for regenerative medicine.

• ORGANIZERS:

  Gerald Crabtree, Stanford University
  
  Julie Lessard, Université de Montréal
  
  Janet Rossant, University of Toronto

• INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

  Brad Bernstein Massachusetts General Hospital		Terry Magnuson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Laurie Boyer Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Susan Mango University of Utah
  Mary Donohoe Massachusetts General Hospital		Barbara Meyer HHMI/ University of California, Berkeley
  Kevin Eggan Harvard University		Stuart Orkin Harvard Medical School
  Kara Foshay University of Chicago		Barbara Panning University of Califonia, San Francisco
  Elaine Fuchs The Rockefeller University		Wolf Reik The Babraham Institute
  Minx Fuller Stanford University		Guy Sauvageau University of Montreal
  Susan Gasser Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research		Stuart Schreiber HHMI/ Broad Institute
  David Gilbert Florida State University		Yang Shi Harvard Medical School
  John Gurdon The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute		Joanna Wysocka Stanford University School of Medicine
  Tom Kerppola Unviersity of Michigan		Shinya Yamanaka University of California, San Francisco
  Joe Landry National Cancer Institute		Rick Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Ihor Lemischka Princeton University		Magdalena Zerincka-Goetz Cambridge University

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