Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease

1. Jim Davie (backup - Ed Seto; Moffitt, Florida), U. of Manitoba: General Review of Epigenetics.- 2. Benoit Bruneau (backup - Kunhua Song; U. of Colorado), UCSF: Chromatin Remodeling in Cardiac Progenitor Cells, Cardiac Development.- 3. Eric Verdin, UCSF: Epigenetics and Metabolism.- 4. Eileen Furlong, EMBL – Heidelberg: Computational Epigenetics.- 5. Eric Olson (backup - Kook; Korea), UT Southwestern: Role of Class I HDACs in the Heart/Metabolism.- 6. Timothy McKinsey , U. of Colorado: HDACs and HATs in Cardiopulmonary Remodeling.- 7. Johannes Backs, U. of Heidelberg: HDAC Signaling Networks in HF.- 8. Jun Sadoshima , New Jersey: Sirtuins and HF.- 9. Zhi-Ping Liu, UT Southwestern: Histone Methylation in Heart Failure.- 10. C.P. Chang (backup - Bultman; North Carolina), Stanford: Chromatin Remodeling in Heart Failure.- 11. Sap Halder, Case Western: pTEFb and BET Proteins in Heart Failure.- 12. Norbert Frey, Kiel, Germany: Long Non-Coding RNAs in Heart Failure.- 13. Assam El-Osta, Melbourne, Australia: Chromatin Marks in Heart Failure.- 14. Roger Foo (backup - Meder; U. of Heidelberg), Singapore: DNA Methylation in Heart Failure.- 15. Joe Hill, UT Southwestern: HDACs and Autophagy in Heart Failure.- 16. Elisabeth Zeisberg (Göttingen) , Gottingen University: Epigenetics Regulation of Fibrosis.- 17. C. Choudhary, U. of Copenhagen: Mass Spectrometry Analysis of the Acetylome.

Prof. Johannes Backs, MD Research Unit Cardiac Epigenetics University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 410 69221 Heidelberg Germany johannes.backs@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Prof. Timothy A. McKinsey, PhD Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology University of Colorado Denver 12700 E 19th Avenue Aurora CO 80045 USA timothy.mckinsey@ucdenver.edu