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Program

The symposium is a 2-day event with talks by invited speakers, short/flash talks from abstracts and 2 poster sessions. It will be followed by a 1-day CIFAR/SNSF workshop “Challenges for the field of epigenetics”. 

Day 1: Wednesday August 25, 2027

8:45 – 9:00

Opening by Isabelle Mansuy, University and ETH Zurich 

Epidemiological evidence and animal models I

09:00 – 09:30

Susan Ozanne, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Title TBA

09:30 – 10:00

Anita Öst, Linköping University, Sweden 

Title TBA 

10:00 – 10:30

Michael Skinner, Washington State University, USA

Title TBA

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30

Marisa Bartolomei, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Title TBA

11:30 – 12:00

Josep Jiménez-Chillarón, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Spain

Title TBA

12:00 – 12:15

Jill Escher, Escher Fund for Autism, USA

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

Transmission mechanisms I

13:30 – 14:00

Katharina Gapp, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 

Title TBA

14:00 – 14:30

Raffaele Teperino, Helmholtz Institute Munich, Germany

Title TBA

14:30 – 16:00

POSTER SESSION I & Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Noora Kotaja, University of Turku, Finland 

Title TBA

16:30 – 17:00

Antoine Peters, FMI Basel, Switzerland 

Title TBA

18:00 – 22:00

Terrace Dinner (upon registration only, limited space)
Polyterrasse ETH Zurich, Leonhardstrasse 34, 8092 Zurich

Day 2: Thursday August 26, 2027

Epidemiological evidence and animal models II

09:00 – 09:30

Gerlinde Metz, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Title TBA

09:30 – 10:00

Ali Jawaid, Lukasiewicz PORT- Polish Center for Technology Development, Poland 

Title TBA

09:30 – 10:00

Romain Barres, University Nice Côte d’Azur, France

Title TBA

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30

Andrea Gore, University Texas Austin, USA

Title TBA

11:30 – 12:00

Germano Cecere, Institut Pasteur, France

Title TBA

12:00 – 12:15

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

Transmission mechanisms II

13:30 – 14:00

Sarah Kimmins, McGill University, Canada

Title TBA

14:00 – 14:30

Jamie Hackett, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy

Title TBA

14:30 – 16:00

POSTER SESSION II & Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Maximilian Fitz-James, University Oxford, United Kingdom

Title TBA

16:30 – 17:00

2 short talks selected from submitted abstracts

Art Movie (free, upon registration only, limited space)

Kino in the Natural History Museum, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich

17:00 – 17:15

Introduction by Isabelle Mansuy

17:15 – 19:00

Viewing followed by discussion

Day 3: Friday August 27 2027 – CIFAR/SNSF Workshop
foodLAB, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 6, 8006 Zurich

Methodologies

09:00 – 09:30

Bluma Lesh, Yale School of Medicine, USA

Title TBA

09:30 – 10:00

Andrew Feinberg, Johns Hopkins University, USA 

Title TBA

10:00 – 10:15

Leonardo Zingler Herrero, University Zürich and ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Title TBA

10:15 – 10:30

Coffee break

Impact on society and ethics

11:00 – 11:30

Ruth Müller, Technical University of Münich, Germany
Title TBA

11:30 – 12:00

Speaker will be confirmed soon

12:00 – 12:15

Speaker will be confirmed soon

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

Challenges for the field of epigenetic inheritance

13:30 – 15:00

Round table 1

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30

Round table 2

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