Welcome

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings from Gubbio!

We are writing to let you know, old and new friends, about plans for the upcoming “15th International Conference on Drosophila Heterochromatin” (HC 2024).

After 10 years, with great pleasure, we are organizing this conference in Gubbio again!! In our beautiful medieval town situated in Umbria, one of the most fascinating regions of Italy.

The meeting venue has a large space for posters and a meeting room that can comfortably accommodate more than 100 people. Thus, in addition to the platform speakers, we welcome applications from other scientists, including your postdocs and graduate students, to attend the meeting and present a poster. Please pass this information on to anyone you think would be interested in attending.

We will continue with a feature introduced at the past meetings; inclusion of eminent researchers studying heterochromatin in other organisms.

As always, in addition to the scientific sessions, we will take advantage of the special traditions and sites that this area of Italy has to offer.

The meeting will be held at the Complesso of San Benedetto, an ex monastery located a few meters from the historic centre of Gubbio.

Among the extra-meeting activities, we will show you some of the characteristic countryside of Umbria.

The complete list of prices for the different hotel categories, as well as payment methods, will be made available soon through these pages. In parallel, we will sent out a message to our mailing list with this information, along with a preliminary programme.

Monia and Federico will take care of the social and practical aspects of the meeting organization also in Gubbio.

We are sure that, given the perfect setting and the continuous exciting progress being made in the study of heterochromatin, we will once again have a particularly enjoyable and productive meeting.

For any questions, don't hesitate to contact us:

Sergio Pimpinelli, Scientific Organiser
sergio.pimpinelli@uniroma1.it
Laura Fanti, Scientific Organiser
laura.fanti@uniroma1.it

Monia Rossi and Federico Cambiotti, Organising Secretariat
drosophilaitalia@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you all to Gubbio!