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. 4, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
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Monday, March 2, 2026
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Foyer International
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Foyer International
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Zurich Ballroom
8:00–8:10 AM Welcome Remarks New York Ballroom
8:00–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Zurich Ballroom
8:10–9:00 AM Keynote Address New York Ballroom
  * Karim-Jean Armache, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University
Epigenetic Regulators in Development and Disease
 
9:00–11:30 AM Chromatin Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Cell Fate in Health and Disease New York Ballroom
  * Cigall Kadoch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Session Chair
 
  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
 
  Beat Fierz, EPFL
Short Talk: Choreography of Epigenetic Control Captured on the Molecular Level
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Foyer International
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Europe Ballroom
12:00–2:00 PM Poster Session 1 Zurich Ballroom
2:00–4:00 PM Symposia Spotlight 1 New York Ballroom
  * Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen
Session Chair
 
  James K. Nuñez, University of California, Berkeley
DNA Methylation Interplays With RNA M6a Factors To Establish Heritable Epigenetic Silencing In Human Cells
 
  Jean-Paul Armache, Penn State University
Structure-function and Chromatin Biology
 
  Diego Pasini, European Institute of Oncology
Control of Transcriptional Identity by the Polycomb Repressive Machinery
 
  Robert L Yauch, Genentech, Inc.
Antibody-Mediated Delivery of SMARCA2/A4 Protein Degraders Affords Strong Anti-Tumor Efficacy in SMARCA4-Mutant NSCLC and Prostate Cancer Models
 
  Aliaksandra (Alex) Radzisheuskaya, The Institute of Cancer Research
Uncovering Critical Lysines in Mammalian Histone H3 with High-Throughput CRISPR Prime Editing
 
  Mo Chen, Tsinghua University
Spatiotemporal Control of SMARCA5 by a MAPK-RUNX1 Axis Distinguishes Mutant KRAS-Driven Pancreatic Malignancy From Tissue Regeneration
 
  Serena Sanulli, Stanford University
Allosteric Regulation Of The Nucleosome Core Biases Cell State
 
  Adrian P Bracken, Trinity College Dublin
The Abundant AEBP2 Long Isoform Restrains PRC2 to Direct H3K27me2 in Development and Cancer
 
4:00–4:30 PM Coffee Available Foyer International
4:30–6:30 PM Therapeutic Opportunities Informed by Genetic Disruption of Chromatin Factors New York Ballroom
  * Aliaksandra (Alex) Radzisheuskaya, The Institute of Cancer Research
Session Chair
 
  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
 
  Tomasz Cierpicki, University of Michigan
Short Talk: Discovery of PRC1 Inhibitors with In Vivo Efficacy
 
  François Fuks, University of Brussels
Short Talk: RNA Modifications in Health and Disease
 
6:30–7:30 PM On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Zurich Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Novel Target Identification and Chemical Approaches New York Ballroom
  * François Fuks, University of Brussels
Session Chair
 
  Tom W. Muir, Princeton University
New Chemical Approaches to Reveal and Understand Chromatin Mechanisms
 
  Jelena Urosevic, AstraZeneca
Epigenetic Targeting in Oncology: Translating Mechanisms to Practice with MTAP-Selective PRMT5 Inhibition—The AZD3470 Story.
 
  Scott B Rothbart, Van Andel Institute
Revealing Novel Cancer Therapeutic Strategies Through Molecular Studies Of Chromatin Modification Crosstalk
 
  Steven F Bellon, Foghorn Therapeutics
Pharmacologic Disruption of Chromatin Regulatory Factors
 
  Bryan Venters, EpiCypher, Inc.
Short Talk: Unraveling Chromatin Regulation With Fiber-seq: a Single-Molecule, Long-Read Assay That Simultaneously Measures Chromatin Architecture and DNA Methylation
 
  Alejandro Correa Sáez, University of Dundee
Short Talk: Dual E3 Ligase Recruitment by Monovalent Degraders Enables Redundant and Tunable Degradation of SMARCA2/4b
 
8:00–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Zurich Ballroom
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Foyer International
9:20–9:25 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement New York Ballroom
11:00–12:00 PM Lunch Europe Ballroom
11:30–1:45 PM Poster Session 2 Zurich Ballroom
2:00–2:45 PM Panel Discussion: From Mechanisms to Drugs: Therapeutic Challenges and Opportunities Unique to Our Field New York Ballroom
2:45–3:30 PM Career Roundtable New York Ballroom
3:30–4:00 PM Coffee Available Foyer International
4:00–6:00 PM Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities Conferred by DNA Methylation New York Ballroom
  * Scott B Rothbart, Van Andel Institute
Session Chair
 
  Yael David, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thinking Outside the Chromosome: Interrogating Epigenetic Mechanisms in Noncanonical Chromatin Species
 
  Chao Lu, Columbia University
Lineage-Specific Metabolic Regulation of Chromatin Contributes to Tumor Plasticity
 
  Alla Sigova, CAMP4 Therapeutics
RNA Amplifier Therapeutics Targeting Regulatory RNAs to Upregulate Disease-Associated genes
 
  Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt University
Short Talk: Predicting Past, Present and Future Cell States with DNA Methylation
 
  Eneda Toska, Johns Hopkins University
Short Talk: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Therapy Resistance in Hormone Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer
 
6:00–7:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Thursday, March 5, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Zurich Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Interplay between Chromatin Regulation and Transcription Dynamics in Human Disease New York Ballroom
  * Eneda Toska, Johns Hopkins University
Session Chair
 
  Emily Bernstein, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Chromatin Remodeling Mutations in Cancer
 
  Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University
The Long Road of Transcription: Elongation Control in Aging, Disease and Cancer
 
  Danny F Reinberg, University of Miami
Opportunities in Cancer
 
  Stefan Niekamp, Massachusetts General Hospital
Short Talk: Mutual Antagonism between PRC1 Condensates and SWI/SNF in Chromatin Regulation
 
  Amanda Engstrom, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Dose-Dependent Molecular Consequences of MeCP2 Dysregulation in Neurological Disorders
 
  Chul-Hwan Lee, Seoul National University
Short Talk: EZH1 Orchestrates 3D Chromatin Architecture To Establish De Novo Heterochromatin And Safeguard Lineage Commitment
 
  Jane A. Skok, New York University School of Medicine
Short Talk: Replication-Coupled Cohesin Remodeling Reorganizes Nucleosome Phasing And Insulation
 
  Joseph C Sudar, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Short Talk: Epigenetics in Parasite Survival and Host Immune Evasion
 
8:00–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Zurich Ballroom
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Foyer International
11:00–12:15 PM Lunch Europe Ballroom
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 3 Zurich Ballroom
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2 New York Ballroom
  * Chul-Hwan Lee, Seoul National University
Session Chair
 
  Noa Furth, Weizmann Institute of Science
Recurrent Patterns of Epigenetic Heterogeneity in Luminal Breast Tumors with Implications for Liquid-biopsy-based Patient Monitoring
 
  Lu Wang, Northwestern University
Molecular Dissection of Gene Essentiality and Transcriptional Reprogramming in Cancer
 
  Oliver Bell, Keck School of Medicine of USC
ZNF462 Haploinsufficiency Disrupts G9A/GLP-Mediated Gene Silencing To Drive Neurogenic Priming in Weiss-Kruszka Syndrome
 
  Alejandra Laguillo-Diego, Weill Cornell Medicine
KAT7 and KAT6A/B Dictate Cell Identity Decisions During M-to-G1
 
  Caroline Clarke, AstraZeneca
Distinct Specialisations of Cohesin-STAG1 and Cohesin-STAG2 Reshape 3D Genome Architecture and Gene–Protein Networks in Cancer
 
  Yumeng Zhan, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
The +1 Nucleosome Functions in Pol II Transcription Initiation
 
  Eric M Conway, University College Dublin
Divergent Pathogenic PR-DUB Complex Variants Converge Functionally Via PRC2 Displacement From Chromatin
 
  Melanie Eckersley-Maslin, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Hijacking Chromatin Regulators of Developmental Plasticity in Cancer
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Foyer International
5:00–6:45 PM Chromatin Regulatory Machinery in Human Health and Disease New York Ballroom
  * Chao Lu, Columbia University
Session Chair
 
  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
 
  Lluis Morey, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Short Talk: Decoding the Role of PRC1 Missense Mutations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
 
  Siddhant Jain, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston , Massachusetts, US
Short Talk: A SWI/SNF-Specific Ig-Like Domain, SWIFT, is a Transcription Factor Binding Platform
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) New York Ballroom
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure