Program

Hiroshi Hamada (Center Director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

Chair: Austin Smith

Azim Surani (Wellcome Trust Cancer Center Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

Patrick F Chinnery (University of Cambridge, UK)

Deborah Bourc’his (Institut Curie, France)

Tomoya Kitajima (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

Mitinori Saitou (Kyoto University, JST ERATO, Japan)

Chair: Mitinori Saitou

Rickard Sandberg (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

Austin Smith (Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

Edith Heard (Institut Curie, France)

Jafar Sharif (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)

Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge, UK)

Michael Snyder (Stanford University, USA)

Chair: Fumio Matsuzaki

Rudolf Jaenisch (MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Biology, USA)

Mototsugu Eiraku (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

Arnold Kriegstein (University of California, San Francisco, USA)

Chair: Mototsugu Eiraku

Ernesto Lujan (Harvard Medical School, USA)

Takashi Tsuji (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

Zev J Gartner (University of California, San Francisco, USA)

Chair: Mototsugu Eiraku

Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Japan)

Yoshiya Kawaguchi (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Japan)

Cantas Alev (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Japan)

Chair: Tomoya Kitajima

Guillaume Bourque (McGill University, Canada)

Parthiv Haldipur (Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Center for Integrative Brain Research, USA)

Chair: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Agnar Helgason (deCODE Genetics, University of Iceland, Iceland)

Molly Przeworski (Columbia University, USA)

Ikuo K. Suzuki (Institute of Interdisciplinary Research and ULB Neuroscience Institute, University of Brussels, Belgium)

Chair: TBA

Pavel Prosselkov (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan)

Lluis Quintana-Murci (Institut Pasteur, France)

Chair: Edith Heard

Sayaka Tojima (Kyoto University, Japan)

Gen Suwa (The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Rasmus Nielsen (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Edith Heard (Institut Curie, France)