Zurich Symposium 27–29 August 2025
Epigenetic Inheritance:
Impact for Biology and Society
The international symposium is dedicated to the theme of epigenetic inheritance, a discipline at the interface between biology, medicine and environmental science that studies how life experiences and environmental factors modify the organism across generations.
The symposium was first held in 2017, and is organized every two years by Prof. Isabelle Mansuy, at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Symposium 2025
27-29 August, Zurich, Switzerland
Like its previous editions (2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023), the 5th symposium will gather leaders in epigenetic inheritance and epigenetics from different disciplines and will cover scientific aspects from epidemiology to behavior, metabolism, mechanisms and methodologies in humans and animal models. It will feature keynote lectures from invited speakers, short talks from junior researchers and flash talks selected from posters. The symposium is meant as a live event to discuss the current state of research, new findings and discoveries, challenges of the discipline and perspectives for biology, medical research and the society. In addition to scientific talks, there will be two poster sessions with a best poster award, a terrace dinner on the rooftop of the main ETH building, and a workshop at the end of the symposium.
To continue the symposium's tradition of combining science and art, a competition featuring art pieces created by attendees on the theme of epigenetic inheritance will also be organized. All pieces will be exhibited during the symposium and one of them will be selected for an award.
Invited Speakers
Venue
Lucia Daxinger, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Qialon Deng, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Amanda Fischer, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Petra Hajkova, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
Pei Hsuan Wu, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jo Leroy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Satoshi Namekawa, University of California Davis, USA
Bart Rutten, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Mitinori Saitou, Kyoto University, Japan
Michael Skinner, Washington State University, USA
Paul Scherrer Auditorium, Building ETA
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Program at a glance
Wednesday
08:00 Registration
08:45 Opening and introduction by Isabelle Mansuy
09:00 Epidemiological evidence and animal models I
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Epidemiological evidence and animal models II
18:30 Terrace dinner (upon reservation at registration)
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Thursday
09:00 Transmission mechanisms I
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Transmission mechanisms II
16:30 Best Art prize
17:15 Art movie on transgenerational family paths
Friday
09:00 Methodologies
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Impact on society and evolution
12:00 Best Poster prize / Closing
WORKSHOP (max 40 participants)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 "Challenges for the field of epigenetic inheritance"​
Registration
Registration will open in January 2025
Contact
For any questions regarding the organization of the symposium, get in touch!
