NOTE: Registration for this event has now closed. However, you can add your name to the waiting list by clicking 'Add to Waitlist' above. TRANSPORT: For those who have signed up for the free bus - we will contact you soon with further information. For those who did not register for the bus - unfortunately you will not be able to use this service on the day. The Babraham Institute can be easily accessed by the public bus (number 13: http://www.stagecoachbus.com/pdfs/XEAO013.pdf). There is also some visitor car- and cycle-parking available for those wishing to drive or cycle to the institute.   The Inaugural Cambridge Epigenetics SymposiumThe Babraham Institute, Tuesday June 10th 2014 PROGRAM 13:30 Confirm registration/pick-up name badge with meal and drink tickets 14:00 Welcome and Introduction 14:10 The cegx Plenary Lecture: Rickard Sandberg, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm Single-cell RNA-seq reveals principles of allelic expression in mammalian cells Epigenetic sensing: genome and environmentChairs: Quentin Gouil and Donna Bond 14:55 Eva-Maria Weick, Eric Miska’s lab (The Gurdon Institute) PRDE-1, a novel piRNA biogenesis factor reveals separate functions for two classes of piRNA in C. elegans 15:15 Hongchun Yang, Caroline Dean’s lab (John Innes Centre, Norwich) Tug of war: antagonistic roles for H3K36me3 and H3K27me3 at FLC 15:35 Ana Lopez Sanchez, Jurriann Ton’s lab (Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield) The epigenetic basis of plant immunity 15:55 Short talk by cegx 16:05 Coffee break              16:35 Short talk by second sponsor – to be confirmed Mechanisms of epigenetic genome regulationChairs: Ruslan Stroganstev, Nozomi Takahashi and Célia Delahaye 16:45 Mitsuteru Ito, Anne Ferguson-Smith’s lab (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)Epigenetic markers for the differentiation capacity of human iPS cells 17:05 Lovorka Stojic, Adele Murrell’s lab (CRUK Cambridge Institute)The nuclear RNAi machinery inhibits transcriptional interference by long non-coding RNA 17:25 Simon Elsaesser, Jason Chin’s lab (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)A role for histone variant H3.3 in retroelement silencing Functional Genomics    Chairs: Solenn Patalano and Jiahao Huang 17:45 Heather Lee, Wolf Reik’s lab (The Babraham Institute)DNA Methylation Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Embryonic Stem Cells 18:05 Konrad Rudolph, John Marioni’s lab (EMBL-EBI)Exploring the mRNA–tRNA interface using next-generation sequencing 18:25 Martin Bachman, Shankar Balasubramanian’s lab (CRUK Cambridge Institute)DNA modification analysis by mass spectrometry - a powerful tool for epigenetics Sponsor displays from cegx and Diagenode can be viewed throughout the symposium   The Cambridge Epigenetics club together with The Babraham Institute are happy to invite you to The Inaugural Cambridge Epigenetics Symposium on the afternoon of June 10th 2014 to promote the exchange of ideas and collaborations about epigenetic research in Cambridge. This is a FREE symposium that will be run by students and post-docs, for students and post-docs working in the field of epigenetics. The symposium schedule will include a research talk by a keynote speaker (Rickard Sandberg; LICR, Stockholm), and nine short talks (15 minutes each) by invited students and post-docs from the Cambridge area.   The symposium will be followed with FREE drinks and a FREE BBQ in the garden and bar, a great chance for participants to network and meet others.  NETWORKING: Are you working on novel epigenetic techniques? Are you using computational analyses to help answer your epigenetic questions? Are you having problems and would you like to discuss these with other people? The social time (afternoon tea, drinks and BBQ) during the symposium will be a great time for networking and meeting other participants. The emphasis during the networking will be the future challenges of epigenetic research - to intelligently coordinate new techniques and computational analyses to better understand the impact of epigenetics on phenotype.  We look forward to seeing you there!