Epigenetic Inheritance Symposium 2025

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.

Confirmed Speakers 

• 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

Contact 

For any questions regarding the organization of the symposium, get in touch!

epigenetic-symposium@hifo.uzh.ch