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Conference Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Geneviève Almouzni (Institut Curie, France)

Research in the Chromatin Dynamics team focuses on understanding how chromatin organization is established, propagated, maintained, and changed during development and in response to environmental cues.

Joanna K. Wysocka (Stanford University, USA)

Research in the Wysocka laboratory is focused on understanding how regulatory information encoded by the genome is integrated with the transcriptional machinery and chromatin context to allow for emergence of form and function during human embryogenesis and evolution, and how perturbations in this process lead to disease.

Confirmed Speakers
(Alphabetical order; subject to change)

Federico Ariel (CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

The Epigenetics and Non-Coding RNAs lab currently studies the evolution of long non-coding RNAs and their role in 3D genome organization in plants.

Francisco M. Barriga (Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Spain)

The Cancer Genome Engineering lab studies cancer heterogeneity at the genetic and cell state level. They aim to understand how this genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity drives cancer progression and therapy resistance.

Ariel Bazzini (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)

The Bazzini lab seeks to understand how genes are regulated at the post-transcriptional level during vertebrate development and in human disease, and to uncover the mechanisms underlying the translation and stability of messenger RNA.

Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha (Butantan Institute, Brazil)

The da Cunha lab investigates how chromatin structure, histone variants, and epigenetic marks regulate gene expression during the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agents of Chagas disease.

Joaquina Delas (University College London, UK)

The primary goal of the Delas lab is to understand how the non-coding genome regulates cell fate decisions during development.

Xin Jin ( Scripps Research Institute, USA)

The Jin lab develops scalable, in vivo functional genomics technologies to decode how genetic programs shape brain circuits across development, homeostasis, and disease.

Lucia Franchini (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular (INGEBI), Argentina)

The Genetics and Molecular Evolution Laboratory investigates the genetic bases of primate brain evolution and of the mammalian inner ear.

Christian Landry (Université Laval, Canada)

The Landry lab is interested in the evolution of biological systems, particularly cellular systems such as gene networks and genome organization.

Christina Leslie (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)

The Leslie lab develops novel computational methods to study cellular biological systems from a global and data-driven perspective.

Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)

The Martienssen lab studies the epigenome and how it is guided by small mobile RNAs in plants and fission yeast.

Helder Nakaya (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

The Computational Systems Biology Laboratory uses systems biology approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases and vaccine-induced immunity.

Oded Rechavi (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Research in the Rechavi lab focuses on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. The lab uses a variety of genetic model systems, particularly nematodes, to study how heritable small RNAs can regulate genes in the progeny

Hugo Sepúlveda (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)

The Sepúlveda lab investigates how epigenetic mechanisms determine chromatin states to control transcription and cellular identity.

Sujatha Sunil (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India)

The Vector Borne Diseases Group studies virus–host interactions, focusing primarily on chikungunya and dengue viruses, using a combination of approaches in molecular virology, functional genomics, proteomics, and reverse genetics.

Juan Pablo Tosar (Universidad de la República , Uruguay)

Research in the Tosar lab is focused on the development of new nucleic acids/protein detection techniques in biological samples, and on RNA-mediated intercellular communication and RNA delivery.

Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)

The Vento Lab has a long-standing interest in understanding the principles of transcriptional regulatory circuits, with a particular focus on how signals from the tissue microenvironment can rewire them during human development and regeneration. To understand this process, they innovate and integrate cutting-edge genomics, bioinformatics, gene editing and bioengineering tools.

Elena A. Vidal (Universidad Mayor, Chile)

The Plantomics lab is interested in determining gene regulatory networks controlling plant responses to nutrient availability, as well as their interaction with other organisms. For this, they use integrative approaches that combine omics data, regulatory network modeling, and experimental validations.

Luis F. Larrondo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

The Larrondo lab uses genetics and synthetic biology approach to study the molecular mechanisms underlying biological oscillators, assessing the impact that circadian clocks have on physiology and in host-pathogen interactions.

Maria Elena Torres-Padilla (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)

The Torres-Padilla lab combines high resolution microscopy, single cell omics, and cell biology approaches to uncover the origin of stem cells and the epigenetic principles that control cellular plasticity.

Sabina Vidal (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Research in the Plant Molecular Biology lab focuses on plant stress responses and agricultural biotechnology. The lab uses functional genomics, transgenesis, and gene editing approaches to both understand the molecular mechanisms underlying plant stress tolerance and enhance crop yield and quality.