Jian Tajbakhsh, Ph.D.                                 
Assistant Professor of Surgery
UCLA-Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Title: 3-D nuclear DNA methylation patterns in cell-based assays for epigenetic drug screening

Robert M. Plenge, MD, PhD.                                  
Assistant Professor of Medicine &
Director of Genetics and Genomics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Genetic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis risk

Rahul Bharadwaj Iyer
PhD Student in the Lab of Dr. Akbarian
Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
Title: Higher order chromatin structure is conserved at the N-Methyl D-aspartate receptor gene Grin2

Housheng Hansen He, PhD.                                               
Post doctoral Fellow in the Lab of Dr. Shirley Liu
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Chromatin Dynamics Define Transcriptional Enhancers in Prostate and breast cancer

Hakon Hakonarson, MD., PhD.                              
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Title: TBA

Benoit Labonte                                                        
PhD Student Dr. Gustavo Turecki’s Lab
Douglas Mental Health Institute
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Title: Epigenetics of suicide: A genome-wide DNA methylation study

Karuna Kar Singh, PhD.                                         
Post doctoral Fellow in the Lab of Dr. Tsai’ s Lab
Picower Inst. of Learning & Memory-MIT
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Understanding the Function of Human DISC1 Variants in Neural Progenitor Cell Development

Tomoji Kawai, PhD.
Professor & Presidential Aide
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Title: Gating Nanopores for Single-Molecule DNA Electrical Sequencing

Suneet Agarwal, M.D., Ph.D.                                  
Instructor in Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Hydroxymethylcytosine, stem cells and cancer

Manon van Engeland, PhD.                        
Professor of Pathology
Maastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Title: Promoter CpG island methylation in colorectal cancer: biology and clinical applications

Mark Roskey, PhD
VP Biology & R&D
Caliper Life Sciences
Hopkinton, MA, USA
Title: Optimizing Automated Sample Preparation Workflow for Improved Quality New Generation Sequencing

Huawei Zeng, PhD.                          
Research Molecular Biologist
USDA ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
Grand Forks, ND, USA
Title: Dietary selenium intake increases exon-specific DNA methylation of p53 gene in rat liver and colon mucosa

Gavin R. Schnitzler, PhD.               
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Tufts University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Title: UGT1A1 regulatory polymorphisms may function by altering nucleosome positions

James E. Bradner, MD.                               
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Targeting Epigenetic Reader Proteins

Deepti D. Deobagkar, PhD.
Professor of Molecular Genetics
University of Pune, Pune, India
Title: Methylomic analysis of X chromosome inactivation and correlation with evolutionary strata and microRNA

Alan Cantor, MD, PhD.                                
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston MA, USA
Title: TBA

John F. Thompson, PhD.                
Senior Director, Genomic Research
Helicos BioScience Corporation
 Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Quantitative Epigenomics:  Why skipping amplification using single-molecule sequencing is important

Aditi Hazra, PhD, MPH.                               
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Title: One-carbon metabolism, epigenetics and colorectal cancer

Rafal M. Iwasiow, PhD.
Product Development Manager 
DNA Genotek
Ottawa, Canada
Title: Saliva: a window into the body?

Dawn L. DeMeo, MD, MPH.
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Associate Physician
Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Complex trait epigenetics: Impact of cigarette smoking on the epigenome and implications for lung disease

Robert A. Copeland, PhD.                                      
Ex. VP & Chief Scientific Officer
Epizyme, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Protein Methyltransferase inhibitors as personalized cancer therapeu