Meeting Reports

The 6th BCGB Symposium on Genome Structure and Function, at the University of Birmingham, was a great success.The selling point of our meeting was to bring together researchers from across the region interested in various aspects of genome biology – from chromatin organization and gene expression to DNA replication and genome stability.The science was amazing, delegates enthusiastic and happy to network in person. We had over 150 participants, mainly early career researchers (ECRs), who enjoyed networking with our two keynote speakers: Ellen Rothenberg (CalTech) and Dan Tenen (Harvard University), who joined us from the USA. We had 11 invited speakers from all over the UK and EU and 13 elevated abstracts talks, which were delivered in majority by ECRs. We also had two flash poster sessions, which were excellent and acted as a great advertisement for the three poster sessions held.Most of the science presented was new and unpublished and we could appreciate the novel technologies and the emerging concepts in genome biology. The science presented and discussed also covered a wide spectrum of biomedical research – from structural protein biology to clinical trials. We all have learned a lot, and this variety of genome biology science certainly opened the horizon for many of the ECRs attending.Find out more about the event and programme here.