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...NBS. Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular biology is an organization headquartered in Colorado, USA, which organizes conferences across a broad range of the life sciences, providing a forum to present science and foster new collaborations. Most of the meetings are held in mountain venues across the American and Canadian West. Whistler is a Canadian resort town north of Vancouver in the province of British Colombia. People primarily visit Whistler for alpine skiing or snowboarding, which we fortunately had time to try out during the conference as well.



The DNA of eukaryotic cells is organized into chromatin, where the nucleosome, consisting of DNA and an octamer of the canonical histones, is the basic repeating unit. Chromatin is therefore at the core of fundamental processes such as gene regulation, differentiation and developmental processes and cancer. This meeting on chromatin and epigenetics brought together scientists studying chromatin structure, epigenetics, stem cell biology and cancer. The talks covered a broad range of topics, including chromosome organization, chromatin assembly, stem cell regulation/differentiation, RNA-based mechanisms and regulation of transcription. The program was tightly packed and divide