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The Editors of Genome Medicine, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced a Workshop on the Epigenetics/Epigenomics of Disease to be held as part of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Asian Epigenome Alliance/3rd Shanghai International Conference of Epigenetics and Disease.

The meeting will take place in Shanghai on April 19-22, 2012. During this three-day conference, 48 leading scientists from around the world will highlight the exceptional advances in the field. The meeting has been organised by Genome Medicine's editorial board member Jingde Zhu of Shanghai Cancer Institute/Renji Hospital and Lin He from Shanghai Fudan University, in conjunction with Rebecca Furlong, the Editor of Genome Medicine.

The workshop with Genome Medicine will have three sessions Genome Medicine day; Cancer epigenetics and epigenomics; Epigenomics and autoimmune disease and asthma; and Epigenomics and in the metabolic and psychiatric disorders.

Speakers for the workshop include Esteban Ballestar, Jingde Zhu and Bin-Tean Teh.

The Asian Epigenome Alliance was launched in 2003 to promote epigenetic and epigenomic research in the region.

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