Late registration is still available online for Epigenetics Eh!, the Canadian Conference on Epigenetics, which is taking place in London, Ontario from May 4 to May 7th, 2011. Part of the stated mission for this conference is to promote a Canadian Epigenetics Research Network (EPIGENETICS CANADA). The epigenetic research areas of the speakers for this conference include, but are not limited to the following.
- Diabetes
- Early detection of cancer
- Leukemia
- Pluripotency in ES cells
- Proteomics to study protein import into the nucleus
- Genomic CNV and epigenetic changes in Neurobehavioral disorders
- Chromatin factors in brain development
- Molecular mechanisms underlying cell fate specification, proliferation, and differentiation of neural stem cells
- Genomic imprinting
- X chromosome inactivation
- Dicer expression and/or microRNA function.
- ING family of tumor suppressors
- Techniques and tools for large scale epigenomic studies
- Functional relationships between transcription, DNA methylation and histone modifications
- Infertility
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs)
- Environmental signals and development
- Radiation
- Chromatin dynamics and nuclear structure in gene expression in normal and cancer cells:
- Developing analysis programs for genome-scale ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq data, and obtaining consensus motifs from experimentally identified binding sites.
- Trans-generational response to stress in plant
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Here is a great epigenetics lecture captured on video lead by David Shenk’s. The lecture discusses the relationship between environment and brain plasticity. Can you contribute some insight about the video? http://cbt20.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/rat-epigenetics/
What a fun talk on the epigenetics of intelligence. It’s great that the public is becoming aware and educated. Like he says in the video, “Epigenetics is everything”.
It will take me some time to see what kind of papers have been published about how much impact epigenetics has on the potential intelligence of an individual. Evolutionarily it makes sense to me that through the history of human population bottlenecks, (i.e. disease, famine and wars) nature has a way of preserving and reconstructing our intelligence. But its always about what the research has actually demonstrated.
I’ll put this topic in cue for a blog post. Truly, thanks again!
Any neuroscientists opinion welcomed here!