
Otto Warburg International Summer School
and Research Symposium 2015
Transcription factors and their role in establishing
and maintaining cellular identity
September 6th-11th, Berlin
The summer school brings together researchers and PhD students from different backgrounds (including molecular biology, bioinformatics, genetics, mathematics) to discuss recent advances in gene regulation in the context of differentiation in an interactive environment.

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Downloads:
> Download OWS presentation slides > Download OWS pictures.
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Thousand thanks to all participants, speakers and organizers of the OWS 2015. It has been a great success and a lot of fun.
The symposium brought together molecular biology and bioinformatics. Lectures bridged from text book knowledge to where current research starts, and seminars towards the end of the summer school presented current research in the field. The summer school gave students a chance to present their projects and interact with the speakers.
These were the topics in 2015:
- Epigenetic regulation and chromatin architecture
- Computational and genomic approaches to understanding gene regulation
- Role of TFs in establishing cellular identity
- Molecular settings of organ development
- Heart development, function and aging
- Cardiac iPSCs for disease modeling and drug discovery
- The interplay between cis-regulatory elements and TFs
Confirmed Speakers
Rolf Bodmer - Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla
Robert Kelly - Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille
Uwe Ohler - Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
Ana Pombo - Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
David Stern - HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn
Jörn Walter - Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Joseph Wu - School of Medicine, Stanford University
Scientific Coordinators:
Silke R. Sperling - Charité Berlin and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Sebastiaan Meijsing - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG)
Peter Arndt - MPIMG
Martin Vingron - MPIMG