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. 2015;10(5):446-51.
doi: 10.1080/15592294.2015.1039222.

Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer: 50 years of histone acetylation

Montserrat Perez-Salvia  1 , Laia Simó-Riudalbas, Juan Ausió, Manel Esteller
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Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer: 50 years of histone acetylation

Montserrat Perez-Salvia et al. Epigenetics. 2015.

Abstract

The Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer (BCEC) was held in Barcelona, Spain, on October 1(st) and 2(nd), 2014. The meeting was co-organized by the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC-IDIBELL) and B·Debate, an initiative of Biocat, with the support of "la Caixa" Foundation. The scientific committee was comprised of leading scientists in the field of epigenetics: Dr. Manel Esteller, director of PEBC-IDIBELL, Dr. Alejandro Vaquero and Dr. Esteban Ballestar, from PEBC-IDIBELL, Juan Ausió from the University of Victoria (Canada), and Marcus Buschbeck, from the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), as BCEC series coordinator. This meeting was the second edition of the BCEC series, which was launched by 5 leading Barcelonan institutes to bring together leading investigators in the fields of epigenetics and chromatin research. The topics discussed during the meeting included the current challenges, opportunities, and perspectives surrounding the study of histone modifications (focusing in acetylation), chromatin structure and gene expression, and the involvement of histone acetylation in physiology and diseases, such as cancer or neurological diseases.

Keywords: acetylation; cancer; epigenetics; histone.

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