George M. Church, PhD.
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Changing Personal Epi-Genomes

Feng Zhang, PhD. 
2013 Epigenomics Young Innovator Awardee
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA USA
Title: Multiplexed mammalian genome engineering with RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas systems

Barry Merriman, PhD.
Lead Architect for Advanced Sequencing Technology
Life Technologies, Inc. 
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Title: How to solve genetic disease on a population scale

Garegin A. Papoian, PhD.
Monroe Martin Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
Title: Acetylations of lLysines of the H4 histone tail lead to major remodeling of its energy landscape

Manolis Kellis, PhD. 
Associate Professor Computational Biology
MIT Center for Genome Research
Cambridge MA, USA
Title: TBA

Deniz Kural                                       
Chief Executive Officer
Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Networked epigenetics on the cloud

Thomas C. Bishop, PhD.
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Physics
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA, USA
Title: In silico studies of nucleosome [mis]positioning and chromatin folding

Bodour Salhia, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Cancer Genomics
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Title: Epigenetic mechanisms mediating cancer progression

Tracey L. Petryshen, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Title: Effects of HDAC1/2 inhibition on psychiatric-related behaviors and brain gene expression in mice

Philip L. De Jager, MD, PhD.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Boston, MA, USA
Title: Deconstructing the genomic architecture of Alzheimer's disease

Kumiko Saeki, MD, PhD.
Director of the Stem Cell Therapy Division
National Ctr. for Global Health and Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Title: Production of functional brown adipocytes from human pluripotent stem cells

Shu Xiao, PhD. 
Fellow in Bioengineering
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Title: Comparative and spatiotemporal epigenomic annotation of regulatory DNA

Michael Witcher, PhD. 
Assistant Professor of Medicine 
McGill University & Jewish General Hospital
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Title: Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressors in breast cancer

Nevenka Dimitrova, PhD.
Research Fellow & Sr. Director
Philips Research, Inc.
Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
Title: Chromosomal breakpoint intervals and differential methylation

Tracy Johnson, PhD.           
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Title: Epigenetic regulation of pre-messenger RNA splicing

Brendan D. Price, PhD.       
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston MA, USA
Title: The epigenetics of genomic stability and DNA repair

Sema Rosinbum, MD, PhD. 
Staff Fellow of Cell & Gene Therapy
US Food Drug Administration
Bethesda, MD, USA
Title: Single cell analysis: An approach for characterizing multipotential stromal cells

Hodaka Fujii, MD, PhD.      
Associate Professor
Osaka University
Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan
Title: Locus-specific biochemical epigenetics / chromatin biochemistry by insertional chromatin immnoprecipitation (iChIP)