Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities (C1)
March 2-5, 2026  | Crowne Plaza Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Karim-Jean Armache and Cigall Kadoch
Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 5, 2025 | Abstract Deadline: Feb. 10, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, March 2, 2026
4:00–8:00 PM Registration
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast
8:00–8:30 AM Poster Setup
8:15–5:00 PM Poster Viewing
8:30–9:30 AM Welcome and Keynote Address
  Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University
Epigenetic Regulators in Development and Disease
 
9:30–11:45 AM Chromatin Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Cell Fate in Health and Disease
  Robert J. Klose, University of Oxford
Understanding how CpG Island regulate Gene Expression
 
  Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen
Maintaining Cell Fate through Replication
 
  Karim-Jean Armache, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Structure and Function of Epigenetic Complexes: Basic and Disease Mechanisms
 
  Scott A. Armstrong, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mechanisms of Menin Inhibitor Sensitivity and Resistance
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
10:00–10:20 AM Coffee Break
11:45–12:45 PM Lunch
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 1
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Therapeutic Opportunities Informed by Genetic Disruption of Chromatin Factors
  Cigall Kadoch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Structure and Function of Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Disease: From Basic Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities
 
  Nicolas H Thomä, EPFL Lausanne
Structural Basis of Transcription Factors and Protein Degradation
 
  Isaac A. Klein, Dewpoint Therapeutics
Targeting Transcription via Condensate Disruption
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast
8:00–8:30 AM Poster Setup
8:15–5:00 PM Poster Viewing
8:30–11:30 AM Novel Target Identification and Chemical Approaches
  Tom W. Muir, Princeton University
New Chemical Approaches to Reveal and Understand Chromatin Mechanisms
 
  Ho Man Chan, AstraZeneca
Targeting Methyltransferases and Other Epigenetic Factors with Small Molecules
 
  Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences
New Approaches Toward Chemical Degradation of Chromatin Machinery
 
  Steven F Bellon, Foghorn Therapeutics
Pharmacologic Disruption of Chromatin Regulatory Factors
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 2
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities Conferred by DNA Methylation
  Yael David, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thinking Outside the Chromosome: Interrogating Epigenetic Mechanisms in Noncanonical Chromatin Species
 
  Chao Lu, Columbia University
At the Crossroads of Histone Modifications and DNA Methylation in Cancer
 
  Alla Sigova, CAMP4 Therapeutics
RNA Amplifier Therapeutics Targeting Regulatory RNAs to Upregulate Disease-Associated genes
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Thursday, March 5, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30–11:30 AM Interplay between Chromatin Regulation and Transcription Dynamics in Human Disease
  Emily Bernstein, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Histone Variants and Their Functions in Cancer
 
  Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University
Transcriptional Elongation and its Control of Oncogenic Mechanisms
 
  Danny F Reinberg, University of Miami
Opportunities in Cancer
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–6:45 PM Chromatin Regulatory Machinery in Human Health and Disease
  Effie Apostolou, Weill Cornell Medical College
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Post-Mitotic Transcriptional Activation
 
  Nada Jabado, McGill University Health Centre
Epigenetics of Pediatric Brain Cancers
 
  Yadira M Soto-Feliciano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chromatin Scaffold Proteins in Development and Disease
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure