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EMBO Workshop

X-chromosome inactivation: New insights on its 60th anniversary

19 – 22 June 2023 | Berlin, Germany

  • Early Registration + Abstract Submission Deadline (for travel grants and registration fee waivers)
  • 15 March 2023
  • Registration + Abstract Submission + Payment Deadline
  • 01 April 2023
  • Selected Abstracts Will Be Notified By
  • 19 April 2023

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About the Workshop

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The field of X-chromosome inactivation is a rapidly evolving one. Recent technological developments linked to noncoding RNA biology, high-resolution imaging, chromosome conformation and CRISPR/Cas9-based genetic screens, have allowed to unravel some of the key molecular players and regulatory mechanisms involved in this mammalian process of chromosome-wide gene silencing and heterochromatinization. Moreover, recent studies of X-inactivation and dosage compensation across more diverse model organisms have provided new insights into the diversity of the molecular mechanisms and raise intriguing and fascinating evolutionary perspectives. Advances have been made as well at the level of theoretical and mathematical frameworks to characterise and explain the regulation of X-inactivation and its intricacies. This EMBO Workshop will bring together a diverse range of experts across the world working on different aspects of the X-inactivation process to share their ongoing and unpublished work, contributing to building a more integrated overview of this epigenetic and developmental phenomenon, 60+ years after the seminal paper by geneticist Mary Lyon in 1961 proposing the X-inactivation hypothesis.

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About EMBO Courses and Workshops

EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender).

Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.

 

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Programme

 

Registration

  • Early Registration + Abstract Submission Deadline (for travel grants and registration fee waivers)
  • 15 March 2023
  • Registration + Abstract Submission + Payment Deadline
  • 01 April 2023
  • Selected Abstracts Will Be Notified By
  • 19 April 2023

 

  • STUDENT/POSTDOCS EUR 350
  • STUDENT/POSTDOCS (virtual) EUR 150
  • ACADEMIC EUR 550
  • ACADEMIC (virtual) EUR 250
  • INDUSTRY EUR 750
  • INDUSTRY (virtual) EUR 350

Registration includes:

  • Lunches & dinners
  • Coffee breaks
  • Abstract book, electronic & printed

Does NOT Include accommodation.

Payment

Participants will pay through the website.

Abstract guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted using the online abstract submission link. All abstracts must be submitted in English, have a maximum of 200 words and include aims and/or hypotheses, methods, results and implications.

25 talks (15 min slots) will be selected based on the submitted abstracts. Please note that talks can only be given in person.

Abstracts will be selected based on relevance to the field, quality of work and presentation. Preference will be given to unpublished results.

We will ensure that there is a good cross-section of researchers from different career stages, as well as a fair gender balance, representation from minoritised communities, and applicants from less-represented countries and institutions.

Poster specifications

Please bring one printed copy of your poster. Poster stands are 144 cm x 116 cm.

The posters will be available for viewing throughout the entire meeting. There will be two dedicated poster sessions in the programme.

Any other registration information

If one or more of your lab members will be attending the meeting and you would like to avail group discounts, please provide the name of your lab, institution, and location.

Travel grants and registration fee waivers

A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants (for travel, a maximum of 500 Euros per participant can be covered). Preference will be given to people with limited access to funding and to research groups for which several lab members will be attending the conference.

Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. EMBO travel grants and registration fee waivers are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.

Additional travel grants are available for EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan.

A maximum of 1000 Euros per participant is available. To apply, please indicate the itemized amount requested in the travel grants section of the registration form.

Special travel grants and registration fee waivers

A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are availablefor scientists working in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. Grants are allocated on the basis of the quality of the submitted abstract.

A maximum of 700 Euros per participant are available to cover registration fees, travel, and accommodation (no additional subsistence costs can be covered). To apply, please indicate the itemized amount requested in the travel grants section of the registration form.

Child care grants

EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional childcare costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the childcare grant and specify the sum that you will need. There is a limited number of grants and we can allocate a maximum of 500 EUR per participant.


Code of conduct

Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy

This EMBO meeting shall maintain an environment free of harassment and discriminatory behaviour for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, ethnicity, beliefs (religious or otherwise) or manner of articulation.

Harassment and discrimination of attendees in any form, either in person or online is not tolerated.

Attendees are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and all communication and behavior should conform to a respectful environment for all.

 

Contact

Ajda Omrani
+49 (30) 61 28 86 11
Email: info@mcc-events.de

 

 

Venue

The EMBO Workshop will take place at the Harnack-Haus in Berlin, which is the conference venue of the Max Planck Society. All talks will take place in the main lecture hall (Goethe Hall) with a maximal capacity of 220 seats. The poster sessions will take place in an adjacent hall (Meitner Hall), where all posters will be displayed for the entire duration of the meeting. The venue also contains a restaurant, where most meals during the meeting will be held.

Accommodation

Participants should organize their own accommodation, and early booking is strongly advised. The venue offers accommodation (guest house), where the organisers have pre-booked available rooms. Please make your own booking before April 19th directly with the Harnackhaus (info@harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de) under the special booking code “7785” (single-room: 89.06 EUR, double-room with separate blankets: 120.34 EUR – breakfast included). If you share a room, more people will be hosted at the venue!

Alternatively, the Seminaris Hotel is available within a 20-minute walking distance.

We are currently in contact with them for discounted rates. For more details, please visit the Harnack House’s website and/or the Seminaris Hotel’s website.

Transport

How to get to the Harnackhaus (conference venue): You will find all travel routes here.

How to get to the SEMINARIS CampusHotel Berlin: You will find all travel routes here.

Berlin runs a comprehensive public transportation system (company: BVG). Standard BVG Tickets include travel on U and S Trains, Regional Express Trains (usually red wagons), Trams, Buses (mostly yellow). The division of travel areas is simply in circles: A (center), B (middle), C (outer area). Generally, you need a valid AB Ticket (except for Schönefeld Airport: ABC or BC). Tickets can be obtained from ticket machines, best paid with (small) Euro currency, or from the BVG App. Public transportation maps are posted at major stops and the BVG provides an App to find suitable connections.

About the Area

From 1912, a "German Oxford" was built in Berlin-Dahlem. On the outskirts of the booming capital, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society founded its first institutes and thus the first German research campus. As its social center, the Harnack House was opened in 1929. The scientific meeting place quickly became a scientific and social center. Political, artistic and scientific celebrities of the time (including 35 Nobel laureates) were among the guests from all over the world. The Harnack House was always a stage of zeitgeist. Initially committed to democratic goals, it was later subjected to Nazi politics and after the end of the war, as an officer's club of the US Army, it was a place of German-American understanding. After the reunification of Germany, the Max Planck Society had the house renovated and modernized and made it a communicative place of international science again.

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