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2002: Imprinting and Growth Congress

London, England: Welcome to the website on the Imprinting and Growth Congress to be held in London, England April 11th to 13th, 2002. Speakers include: Karin Buiting (GERMANY), Alan Colman (USA), Miguel Constancia (UK), Jay Cross (CANADA), Wendy Dean (UK), David Dunger (UK), Thomas Eggermann (GERMANY), Robert Feil (FRANCE), Anne Ferguson-Smith (UK), Abigail Fowden (UK), Reinald Fundele (GERMANY), Michel Georges (BELGIUM), Fumitoshi Ishino (JAPAN), Randy Jirtle (USA), Gavin Kelsey (UK), Eamonn Maher (UK), Mark McCarthy (UK), Adele Murell (UK), Azim Surani (UK), Benjamin Tyko (USA), Andrew Ward (UK), and Lorraine Young (UK).

ORGANIZER: Gudrun Moore (Imperial College, London, UK)

Invited Speaker Presentations

The following is a list of the Environmental Epigenomics conference speakers and their addresses, along with links to their presentation abstracts and recordings. Audio is in MP3 format and video requires Shockwave Flash.

• Denise Barlow — OAW Institute of Molecular Biology
  Salzburg; Austria • e: dbarlow@imb.oeaw.ac.at
  • "The Non-Coding Air RNA is Required for Silencing a Cluster of Autosomal Imprinted Genes"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Karin Buiting — Institute for Human Genetics, Universitatsklinikum Essen
  Essen; Germany • e: buiting@uni-essen.de
  • "Imprinting Establishment and Maintenance in the Prader-Willi/Angelman Syndrome"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Jason Burns — Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
  South Parks Road; Oxford OX1 3PS; United Kingdom • e: jason.burns@zoo.ox.ac.uk
  • "Insulin-Like Growth Factor-II Modifies Cell Survival and Proliferation During a Discrete Period of Mouse Embryogenesis"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Alan Colman — PPL Therapeutics Ltd
  Edinburgh; United Kingdom • e: acolman@ppl-therapeutics.com
  • "Imprinting, Somatic Nuclear Transfer and Stem Cell Therapy"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Miguel Constancia — Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Imprinting, Developmental Genetics Programme, The Babraham Institute
  Cambridge CB2 4AT; United Kingdom • e: miguel.constancia@bbsrc.ac.uk
  • "Regulation of Fetal Growth by an Imprinted Placental-specific Igf2 Transcript"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• James Cross — Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
  Alberta; Canada • e: jcross@uca1gary.ca
  • "Making Sense of Placental Dysplasia: Mechanisms Underlying Placental Growth and Morphogenesis"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Wendy Dean — Developmental Genetics Programme, The Babraham Institute
  Cambridge CB2 4AT; United Kingdom • e: wendy.dean@bbsrc.ac.uk
  • "Epigenetic Reprogramming During Early Mammalian Development"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• David Dunger — Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge
  Cambridge; United Kingdom • e: dbd25@hermes.cam.ac.uk
  • "Haig Hypothesis Revisited - Implications for Childhood Growth and Risk of Adult Disease"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Thomas Eggermann — Institute of Human Genetics
  RWTH; Aachen; Germany • e: 
  • "UPD and Pregnancy Complications: The result of Parent-Offspring Conflict or Simply of a Chromosomal Disturbance"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Robert Feil — Institute of Molecular Genetics
  Montpellier; France • e: feil@igm.cnrs-mop.fr
  • "Chromatin Modification at Imprinting Control Centres"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Anne Ferguson-Smith — Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge
  Downing Street; Cambridge CB2 3DY; United Kingdom • e: afsmith@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
  • "The Influence of Imprinted Genes on the Development of Feto-maternal Interfaces in the Mouse Placenta"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Abigail Fowden — Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge
  Cambridge CB2 3EG; United Kingdom • e: alf1000@cam.ac.uk
  • "IGFs and Feto-placental Growth"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Reinald Fundele — Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
  Berlin; Germany • e: fundele@molgen.mpg.de
  • "How do Imprinted Genes Correlate with Placental Dysplasia in Mouse (Mus)Interspecies Hybrids?"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Michel Georges — Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege
  Liege; Belgium • e: michel.georges@ulg.ac.be
  • "Progress Towards a Molecular Understanding of Polar Overdominance at the Ovine Callipyge Locus"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Katariina Hannula — Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki
  Haartmaninkaru; Finland • e: katariina.hannula@helsinki.fi
  • "Maternal Uniparental Disomy Of Chromosome 7 is Confined to Silver-Russell Syndrome Patients in Children with Growth Retardation of Unknown Etiology"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Myriam Hemberger — Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
  Alberta; Canada • e: mhemberg@ucalgary.ca
  • "Large-scale Analysis of Genes Regulated during Mouse Placental Development Reveals their Prevalent Localization within Imprinted Chromosomal Regions"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Arturo Hernandez — Dartmouth Medical School
  Dartmouth, NH; United States • e: arturo.hernandez@dartmouth.edu
  • "The Mouse Dio3 Gene Located on Chromosome 12F1 is Imprinted and Preferentially Expressed from the Paternal Allele During Fetal Development"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Fumitoshi Ishino — Gene Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  Yokohama; Japan • e: fishino@bio.titech.ac.jp
  • "Establishment and Erasure of Genomic Imprinting Memories in Germ Line Cells"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Randy Jirtle — Duke University Medical Center, Duke University
  Durham, NC 27710 ; United States • e: jirtle@radonc.duke.edu
  • "Evolution of Imprinted Growth Regulatory Genes"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Gavin Kelsey — Developmental Genetics Programme, The Babraham Institute
  Cambridge CB2 4AT; United Kingdom • e: gavin.kelsey@bbsrc.ac.uk
  • "Functional Analysis of Zac1 Imprinting"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Louis Lefebvre — Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto
  Ontario; Canada • e: lefebvre@mshri.on.ca
  • "Deletion of the Mash2-Ins2 Interval on Mouse Chr7 by Trans-Allelic Cre Recombination in Spermatocytes: Analysis of Imprinting and Developmental Defects"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Eamonn Maher — University of Birmingham Medical School
  Birmingham; United Kingdom • e: e.r.maher@bham.ac.uk
  • "Molecular genetics of Beckwith-Wiedemann"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Mark McCarthy — Imperial College
  London; United Kingdom • e: rn.mccarthy@ic.ac.uk
  • "Early Development and Adult Metabolic Disease"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• David Monk — Imperial College
  London; United Kingdom • e: d.monk@ic.ac.uk
  • "The Imprinting Analyses of SRS Candidate Genes Within The 7p Critical Region Defined by Cytogenetic Disruptions"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Adele Murrell — The Babraham Institute
  Cambridge; United Kingdom • e: adele.murrell@bbsrc.ac.uk
  • "An Intragenic Methylated Region in the Imprinted Igf2 Gene is Required for Transcription of the Paternal Allele"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Judith Skinner — MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit
  Harwell; United Kingdom • e: j.skinner@har.mrc.ac.uk
  • "Two Imprinted Phenotypes of Oedematous-Small, an ENU-Induced Point Mutation in Exon 6 of Gnas, Arise from Oppositely Imprinted Transcripts"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Colin Stewart — National Cancer Institute
  Bethesda, MD; United States • e: stewartc@ncifcrf.gov
  • "Paternal and Maternal Genomes Differentially Affect the Cell Cycle, Proliferation, Senescence and Tumor Formation"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Jörn Walter — University of Saarland
  Saarbrucken; Germany • e: j.walter@mx.uni-saarland.de
  • "Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells"
    Abstract / Audio / Video
• Andrew Ward — University of Bath
  Bath; United Kingdom • e: bssaw@bath.ac.uk
  • "Control of Growth by the Imprinted Igf2 Gene"
    Abstract / Audio / Video