Suzhou，China

May 9-13，2016

Abstract deadline：February 26，2016

Organized by：

Genevieve Almouzni，Curie Institute，France

Hiroyuki Sasaki，Kyushu University，Japan

Yang Shi，Children‘s Hospital，Harvard Medical School，USA

Bing Zhu，Institute of Biophysics，Chinese Academy of Sciences，China

We are pleased to announce the 4th Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Chromatin，Epigenetics and Transcription which will be held in Suzhou，China，located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7：00pm on the evening of Monday May 9，and will conclude after lunch on May 13，2016.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Epigenetics. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics：

1. DNA modifications

2. Histone variants & modifications

3. Readers & non-histone modifications

4. High order chromatin structure

5. Enhancers

6. Non-coding RNAs

7. Chromatin & cellular function

Keynote Speakers：

Robert Kingston，Mass General Hospital/Harvard Med School，USA

Danny Reinberg，HHMI / New York University School of Medicine，USA

Robert Roeder，The Rockefeller University，USA

Invited Speakers：

Genevieve Almouzni，Curie Institute，France

Luciano di Croce，Center for Genomic Regulation，SPAIN

Xiang-Dong Fu，University of California，San Diego，USA

Or Gozani，Stanford School of Medicine，USA

Kristian Helin，University of Copenhagen，DENMARK

Steven Henikoff，Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center，USA

Steve Jacobsen，HHMI/University of California，Los Angeles，USA

Tetsuji Kakutani，National Institute of Genetics，JAPAN

Hitoshi Kurumizaka，Waseda University，JAPAN

Guohong Li，Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of science，CHINA

Jürg Müller，Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry，GERMANY

Bing Ren，University of California San Diego，USA

Hiroyuki Sasaki，Kyushu University，Japan

Robert Schneider，Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology，FRANCE

Yang Shi，Children‘s Hospital，Harvard Medical School，USA

Yujiang Shi，Brigham Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School，USA

Ali Shilatifard，Northwest University Feinberg School of Medicine，USA

Maria Elena Torres Padilla，Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology，FRANCE

Bas Van Steensel，Netherlands Cancer Institute，NETHERLANDS

Johnathan Whetstine，Harvard Medical School，USA

Yue Xiong，University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill，USA

Guoliang Xu，Chinese Academy of Sciences，CHINA

Rui-ming Xu，Institute of Biophysics，CAS，CHINA

Richard Young，Whitehead Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology，USA

Yi Zhang，HHMI，Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital，USA

Bing Zhu，Institute of Biophysics，Chinese Academy of Sciences，China

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status（fellow's talk/poster）of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship：

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship（USD $100-$500）awards. For more details，please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in May，2016.