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Annual Research Symposium: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Disease

Written by BCI Staff | Dec 6, 2012 7:48:00 PM

Annual Symposium: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Disease

Conference - Leeds, United Kingdom

Epigenetic mechanisms play pivotal roles in development, differentiation and cell identity. Epigenetic regulation is influenced by environmental factors such as nutrition and inappropriate epigenetic regulation contributes to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. This meeting will cover our current understanding of epigenetic modifications and the functional role they play in regulating development and contributing

Topics

DNA methylation

Gene regulation

Histone modifications

Non-coding RNA

Stem cell fate

Imprinting

Epigenomics

(Courtesy of DNA methylation, via en.wikipedia.org)

Annual Symposium: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Development and Disease

Tue, Dec 11, 2012 - Thu, Dec 13, 2012

University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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