Subject: Symposium on Biological Complexity: Diseases of Transcription

From: "Nature Publishing Group"<[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:10:43 -0400 (EDT)

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January 11-14, 2007
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California

The isolation and characterization of Pol II transcription factors, the initiation machinery and chromatin modulators have shown that physiology and transcription are part of the same molecular canvas. These parallel strands of biology have merged to empower transcription as an underlying regulator of health and disease and to help us rethink physiology as an exquisite readout and a window into the dynamic aspect of the genome.

Diseases of Transcription will highlight recent advances in detailing how molecules that control gene expression directly contribute to cancer, inflammation, development, heart disease and the metabolic syndrome. In addition, special emphasis will be put on emerging strategies for therapeutic intervention.

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Speakers
David Allis
Johan Auwerx
Jean Laurent Casanova
Joan Conoway
Gerald Crabtree
James Darnell
Ron Evans
Laurie Glimcher
Gerald Karsenty
Shigeki Kato
Roger Kornberg

Tony Kouzarides
Arnold Levine
Karolin Luger
Bernard Mach
Eric Olson
Pier Giuseppe Pellici
Victoria Richon
Alexander Rudensky
Christine Seidman
Bernard Spiegelman
Robert Tjian

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Scientific Committee
Alex Eccleston (Nature)
Ron Evans (Chair, Salk Institute)
Laurie Glimcher (Harvard School of Public Health)
Boyana Konforti (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)
Tony Kouzarides (Gurdon Institute)
Eric Olson (South Western Medical Center)
Organizing Committee
Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN)
Ron Evans (Salk Institute)
Beatrice Renault (Nature Publishing Group)
Inder Verma (Salk Institute)

Scientific Sessions
Session 1: Basics Of Transcription
Session 2: Transcriptional Cancer Therapeutics
Session 3: Transcriptional Diseases of Development
Session 4: Immune-deficiency Diseases Involving Transcription
Session 5: Transcriptional Basis of Metabolic Disease

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