Epigenetics & Chromatin
September 15 - 19, 2026
Abstract Deadline: June 26, 2026
Organizers:
Karen Adelman, Harvard Medical School
Anja Groth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego
You are cordially invited to participate in the seventh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Epigenetics and chromatin. The opening session will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15 and the meeting will end after lunch on Saturday, September 19, 2026. As currently planned, the program will have eight sessions devoted to oral presentations, together with three poster sessions for presentations that cannot be accommodated in the formal sessions. Selection of talks for the oral sessions will be made by the organizers in conjunction with the session chairpersons, from the submitted abstracts.
Keynote Speakers:
Bradley Bernstein, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School & Broad Institute
Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco
Topics:
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- Chromatin Regulation
- Chromatin Dynamics
- Epigenetics in Disease
- Epigenetics in Development & Aging
- Epigenetic & Genetic Stability
- Epigenetic Inheritance
- Genome Organization
- Genome & Epigenome Maintenance
Discussion Leaders:
Karim-Jean Armache, New York University
Shelley Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Bernstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Gerd Blobel, Childen's Hospital of Philadelphia
Anne Brunet, Stanford University
Yael David, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Job Dekker, UMass Chan Medical School
John Diffley, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Lucas Farnung, Harvard Medical School / HHMI
Amanda Fisher, University of Oxford, UK
Eileen Furlong, EMBL, Germany
Edith Heard, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Peter Jones, Van Andel Institute
Jop Kind, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Gaelle Legube, CBI, University of Toulouse, France
John Lis, Cornell University
Stavros Lomvardas, Columbia University
Francesca Mattiroli, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School / HHMI
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, University of Pennsylvania
Vijay Ramani, Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
Danny Reinberg, University of Miami
Dirk Schubeler, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Yang Shi, University of Oxford, UK
Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University
Zhiguo Zhang, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Partial Support Provided by:
Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentations will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
We hope that you or a member of your laboratory will be able to participate. In addition, please bring this announcement to the attention of any other interested parties. We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in September.
All questions pertaining to registration, fees, housing, meals, transportation, visas, abstract submission, or any other matters should be directed to Val Pakaluk.
Social Media: The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlepich26. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full
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Financial Aid: Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk if you require financial support.
Pricing:
Pricing:
In-Person Fees
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1945 (Subject to availability.)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1820
Academic Shared Room Package: $1660
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $1240
Student Package*: $1545
Student No-Housing Package: $1125
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $2485
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1780
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please enquire about availability and fees to upgrade to a private room.
NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus
Virtual Participation: Includes access to theoral sessions via Zoom, the digital poster gallery, the Slack discussionworkspace, and the Leading Strand video archive. If you aresubmitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please plan toattend the meeting in-person.
Virtual Fees:
Academic Virtual Package: $370
Grad Student Virtual Package: $230
Corporate Virtual Package: $550
Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on September 10, 2026)
Late Academic Virtual Package: $470
Late Student Virtual Package: $330
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $650