Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the La Fondation IPSEN recently conducted the seventh meeting in the ‘Emergence and Convergence’ series in San Antonio, Texas. Experts discussed concepts from gene regulation studies in immune cells that have led to insights into the initiation and maintenance of epigenetic chromatin marks necessary for proper differentiation and function of these cells in the immune system.
The meeting was arranged by Laurie Dempsey (Nature Immunology, USA), Arianne Heinrichs (Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, UK), Yves Christen (La Fondation IPSEN, France) and Jacqueline Mervaillie (La Fondation IPSEN, France).
In 2007, the two organisations came together to create a new series of scientific events - the Emergence & Convergence mini-symposia. Each meeting in the series seeks to bring together a group of speakers to address a topic of strong current interest. The aim is also to have a topic that has elements of both emergence (new advances in the field) and convergence (a developing consensus on the importance and integration of the new advances with existing understanding). Where applicable, meetings are cross-disciplinary in nature to facilitate and promote collaboration.
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