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 Kara Foshay University of Chicago Margaret Fuller Stanford University David Gilbert Florida State University John Gurdon The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute Tom Kerppola Unviersity of Michigan Joe Landry National Cancer Institute Ihor Lemischka Princeton University Terry Magnuson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Mango University of Utah Barbara Meyer HHMI/ University of California, Berkeley

  Stuart Orkin Harvard Medical School Barbara Panning University of Califonia, San Francisco Wolf Reik The Babraham Institute Guy Sauvageau University of Montreal Stuart Schreiber HHMI/ Broad Institute Dirk Schübeler Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Marius Wernig Stanford University School of Medicine Joanna Wysocka Stanford University School of Medicine Shinya Yamanaka University of California, San Francisco Rick Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Magdalena Zerincka-Goetz Cambridge University

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