Meeting Report of the Fifth International Cancer Epigenetics Conference in Beijing, China, October 2016

Abstract

Fifth International Cancer Epigenetics Conference, Beijing, China, 21–23 October 2016

This meeting reported many new findings in the field of cancer epigenetics, including basic science, translational and clinical studies. In this report, we summarize some of the main advancements and prospects in cancer epigenetics presented at this meeting.

Keywords::

• 5hmc
• DNA methylation
• histone modification
• imprinting
• noncoding RNA
• RNA methylation

Acknowledgements

We thank all the presenters who gave permission for their research to be reported here. Please see their e-mails listed below. We have summarized some of the key ideas that were presented at the meeting and apologize if we have unintentionally omitted any critical aspects. There were many interesting presentations, and we regret that we could not include all of them due to space constraints.

James G Herman: [email protected]; Zhibing Wang: [email protected]; Jiang Liu: [email protected]; Qian Tao: [email protected]; Weimin Ci: [email protected]; Jin Jen: [email protected]; Longcheng li: [email protected]; Jingyi Li: [email protected]; Toshikazu Ushijima: [email protected]; Joo-Mi Yi: [email protected]; Malcolm V Brock: [email protected]; Weidong Han: [email protected]; Haitao Li: [email protected]; Hongquan Zhang: [email protected]; Yoshimitsu Akiyama: [email protected]; Jingxuan Pan: [email protected]; Qing Miao: [email protected]; Carlo Croce: [email protected]; Wenqiang Yu: [email protected]; Runsheng Chen: [email protected]; Hengmi Cui: [email protected]; Xu Song: [email protected]; Jingyuan Fan: [email protected]; Francois Fuks: [email protected]; Guangbiao Zhou: [email protected]

Financial & competing interests disclosure

This meeting was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program No. 2012CB934002); National Key Scientific instrument Special Programme of China (Grant No.2011YQ03013405); National Science Foundation of China (NSFC No.81672318, U1604281, 8167100001, 81402345, 81230047, 81490753, 81121004). Beijing Science Foundation of China (BJSFC No.7171008). Translational foundation of Chinese PLA General Hospital (2016ZHJJ-MS-GMZ). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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Funding

This meeting was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program No. 2012CB934002); National Key Scientific instrument Special Programme of China (Grant No.2011YQ03013405); National Science Foundation of China (NSFC No.81672318, U1604281, 8167100001, 81402345, 81230047, 81490753, 81121004). Beijing Science Foundation of China (BJSFC No.7171008). Translational foundation of Chinese PLA General Hospital (2016ZHJJ-MS-GMZ). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.