9:00

Welcome remarks by John Dirks, President and Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation

9:05 

Anthony Phillips, Scientific Director,  CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction Professor Department of Psychiatry, UBC

Chair - morning session

9:15

David Allis, 2007 Gairdner Laureate, Joy & Jack Fishman Professor & Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York
Beyond the Double Helix: Varying the "Histone Code"

9:50   

Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
The CpG dinucleotide as a genomic signaling module

10:25

BREAK

10:40

Michael Meaney James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal
Epigenetics and parental effects

11:15

Huda Y. Zoghbi, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Houston
The story of Rett Syndrome: where Epigenetics meets Neurobiology

12:00

LUNCH (By Invitation)

1:00

Cheryl Arrowsmith, Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto & Chief Scientist, Division of Molecular & Structural Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute

Chair - afternoon session

1:10

Shiv I. S. Grewal, Head, Chromosome Biology Section, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Epigenetic genome control by heterochromatin and RNAi machinery

1:45

Andrew Feinberg, King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine,
Department of Medicine/Oncology and Molecular Biology & Genetics , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
The Epigenetics of Cancer

2:20

Art Petronis, Professor, Pharmacology and Senior Scientist and Head, The Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
Epigenetics and Complex Disease

Conclusion:

Dr. John Dirks