Jessica Tollkuhn (Cold Spring Harbor Lab, New York, USA)
Taru Tukiainen (FIMM, Helsinki, Finland)
Judith Zaugg (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
Programme
09 h – Opening Remarks, Edith Heard
09 h 10 – X Chromosome Inactivation Escape: a driving force in adaptive B cell responses, Jean-Charles Guery
09 h 45 – X Chromosome Inactivation from Molecules to Sex Biases, Taru Tukiainen
10 h 20 – Are Sex Differences Epigenetically Controlled before Hormones Kick in? Implications for understanding sex bias in health and disease, Richard Festenstein
10 h 55 – Pause
11 h 10 – Systems Epigenetics Implicates X-Linked Transcription Factor in Sex-Bias for Autoimmune Disease Risk, Judith Zaugg
11 h 45 – The Neuroscience of Sex Bias in Behavior, Cornelius Gross
12 h 20 – Déjeuner
13 h 20 – The Sex of the Intestine and why it Matters, Irene Miguel-Aliaga
13 h 55 – Uncovering the Missing X Factors to Understand Sex Bias in Cardiovascular Disease, Daniel Andergassen
16 h 30 – Pause
16 h 45 – Gonadal Hormones Define Brain Sex Differences, Jessica Tollkuhn
17 h 20 – Intergenerational Disease Risk: Why your father’s microbes matter, Jamie Hackett