Results of Open Call for Collaborative Project

Suzanne de Bruijn, PhD student at Wageningen University in Netherlands and member of the team of Kerstin Kaufmann now at the University of Potsdam in Germany has been selected in the 3rd round of Open Calls for Collaborative Projects for her proposed work on Evolutionary Dynamics of Chromatin Accessibility. 

The Kaufmann lab, Suzanne is second from the left.

EpiGeneSys Has Now Reached Its Final Size of 150 Labs

The third and final round of adding further associate members to the EpiGeneSys network has been concluded and we are very happy to welcome the new associates! Check out in the About us section who has joined now EpiGeneSys - by and by the new lab profiles will go online! 

EPIGEN/EpiGeneSys Meeting in Palermo

In early 2012 the Italian Epigenomics Flagship Project (EPIGEN) contacted EpiGeneSys with the suggestion to constitute a review panel of experts for the EPIGEN Call launched in 2012 in order to integrate additional teams into the project.

It soon became clear that both initiatives could benefit from a close interaction and, as an initial step, a joint meeting was organized in Palermo on June 3-4, 2013, which brought together 41 PIs and representatives from some European funding agencies. Intense scientific sessions were complemented by a special session dedicated to exchange ideas regarding the possible strategies to further integrate and consolidate the European epigenetics & systems biology communites.

The next stepping stones on the path into the future are to explore the possibility to found an EpiGenetics society and to write a white paper that can be communicated to the national delegations for Horizon2020. 

EpiGeneSys Training Workshop at the IMB in Mainz

Registration is open for the Training Workshop  Epigenomics as a Discovery Tool in Current Biology, September 19th-20th 2013 at the IMB 
in Mainz. The event is organised with the support of the EpiGeneSys TAB and will provide an introduction to state-of-the-art experimental methods, computational analyses and applications of epigenomics technologies.

Speakers:

Eileen Furlong (DE), Chris Ponting (UK), Jacob Hanna(IL), Tobias Straub (DE), Arjen Brinkman (NL), Emil Karaulanov (DE), Ho-Ryun Chung (DE), Wouter de Laat (NL), Tim Roloff (CH), Julian König (UK), Ibrahim Ilik (DE), Teresa Barth (DE), Michiel Vermeulen (NL)