22nd Transcription Assembly Meeting (TAM2025)

About the Meeting

Since 1997, the Transcription Assembly Meeting has served as a platform for researchers to discuss advances in gene transcription. This year's event will bring together leading scientists to share insights and foster collaborations.

In the late ‘90s scientists in India working on different aspects of prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription, felt the urge to conduct an informal meeting to share and discuss the progress of individual efforts in understanding the complexity and regulatory aspects of these key mechanisms of life. Hence, an informal group was formed and the ‘Transcription Assembly Meeting’ set forth its journey in 1997 in CCMB, Hyderabad.

These meetings are characterized by intense, close and informal interactions. The conversion of genetic information into functional protein molecules is a multistep process, at the top of which lies the process called Transcription. Understanding the basic mechanism of transcription has come a long way. However, details of the regulatory processes and the importance of these events in organismal life cycles are bringing newer and ever-exciting facts into light. For example, even though sequence-specific DNA binding is a key event in a specific transcription factor-dependent regulation of gene expression, it is now clear that context-dependent regulatory mechanisms hold the key to the fate of these events. Genome organization, epigenetic modifications and inheritance of epigenetic marks, tissue and cell type specificity, and status of the cells --- each plays a pivotal role in shaping the outcome of gene expression events in cells.

In this meeting, researchers with diverse scientific interests and expertise related to gene expression will come together to share their experiences and insights. There is no registration. The participation is allowed only through invitation.

Expected outcomes of the event:

• Introducing the new early career scientists working with gene transcription
• For bringing forth the opportunity to facilitate extensive interaction and collaborations between scientists
• Presenting the work of the Junior Scientists, Ph.D. Students and Postdocs
• Scope of networking and opportunity to create platforms for thematic research projects involving scientists from diverse experience levels and expertise