The Symposium on Epigenetics was held in Beijing on May 4, 2016. It was jointly organized by the Beijing Institutes of Life Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (BIOLS, CAS), National Laboratory of Protein Science in the Institute of Biophysics of the CAS and Biophysical Society of China. More than 200 researchers from institutes of CAS and universities attended the symposium.

The topics of the symposium included chromatin regulation, DNA methylation and nucleosome compaction remodelling, etc. Seven scientists from China and USA gave presentations. The attendees discussed the latest findings across many topics in epigenetics biology. Most of them emphasized the importance of communication and cooperation with others in the field of epigenetics.