VAI Epigenetics Symposium

The 2026 VAI Epigenetics Symposium will highlight cutting-edge topics at the intersection of epigenetics, variation plasticity and inheritance.

Our distinguished lineup of speakers will explore areas including:

• Mechanisms of pre- and post-conception phenotypic plasticity
• Mechanisms of intergenerational epigenetic inheritance
• Canonical and non-canonical mechanisms of intergenerational control
• Evolutionary impacts of plasticity systems
• Phenotypic plasticity, human variation and disease

Speakers:

Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Ph.D., HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Jordana Bell, Ph.D., Kings College London

Ana Boskovic, Ph.D., EMBL Rome

Sarah Bowling, Ph.D., Stanford Medicine

Justin Crocker, Ph.D., EMBL Heidelberg

Mary Gehring, Ph.D., MIT — Keynote

Jamie Hackett, Ph.D., EMBL Rome

Petra Hajkova, Ph.D., Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Jacob Hanna, M.D., Ph.D., Weizmann Institute

Nicola Iovino, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

Daniel Jarosz, Ph.D., Stanford Medicine

Eric Miska, Ph.D., University of Cambridge UK — Keynote

Joseph Nadeau, Ph.D., University of Washington

Mary Elizabeth Patti, M.D., Joslin Diabetes Center

Miguel Ramalho-Santos, Ph.D., Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Hiroyuki Sasaki, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Institute of Bioregulation

Ralf J. Sommer, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Biology

Ye Tian, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences

Poster abstracts may be submitted during registration.

Eligibility: Students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and research staff are welcome to submit an abstract. If the number of submitted poster abstracts exceeds the space, the organizers will select the abstracts that are most relevant to the conference theme. The deadline to submit an abstract is Monday, April 27, 2026.

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