Jessica Tollkuhn (Cold Spring Harbor Lab, New York, USA)
Taru Tukiainen (FIMM, Helsinki, Finland)
Judith Zaugg (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
Program
09 h - Opening Remarks, Edith Heard
09 h 10 - XChromosome Inactivation Escape: a driving force in adaptive B cell responses, Jean-Charles Guery
09 h 45 - XChromosome 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 - Break
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 - Lunch
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 - Break
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