Nobel Conference No. 61:
“Mechanisms and Systems Biology of Transcription”

Nobel Forum, Stockholm, October 7 – 9th 2014

Organisers:
Professor Lorenz Poellinger, Karolinska Institutet
Professor Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet
Emma Inns, PA, Karolinska Institutet

Confirmed speakers:

• Martha L. Bulyk, Professor of Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
• Patrick Cramer, Professor for Biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
• Job Decker, Professor of Systems Biology at University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
• Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Louis-Jeantet Professor at University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Denis Duboule, Professor in Developmental Genomics at University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Johan Elf, Professor in Biological Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden
• Timothy R. Hughes, Professor at University of Toronto, Canada
• Roger D. Kornberg, Nobel laureate and Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
• Michael Levine, Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Jason D. Lieb, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, USA
• Sten Linnarsson, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• John T. Lis, Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornel University, USA
• Richard S. Mann, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, USA
• Duncan Odom, PhD Group Leader at Cancer Research UK
• Mark Ptashne, Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, USA
• Frank Pugh, Willaman Chair in Molecular Biology and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State, USA
• Danny Reinberg, Professor in Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine, USA
• Bing Ren, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, USA
• Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor at The Rockefeller University, USA
• Jorge Ruas, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Rickard Sandberg, Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Stockholm, Sweden
• Eran Segal, Incumbent of the Soretta and Henry Shapiro Career Development Chair at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Francois Spitz, PhD Group leader at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• John Stamatoyannopoulos, Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
• Alexander Stark, PhD Group Leader at Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
• Daniel Tenen, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA and National University of Singapore
• Robert Tjian, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Marian Walhout, Professor of Program in Molecular Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
• Jerry L. Workman, Investigator at Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, USA
• Sunney Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, USA
• Masayuki Yamamoto, Professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
• Richard A. Young, Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute and MIT, USA