William Janzen, a highly respected academic in the field of epigenetics and a founder of SBS, will be presenting a summary of epigenetics and why it is important to drug discovery, as well as recent advances in his research and that from other groups. In addition, Bill LaMarr will present the RapidFire high-throughput mass spectrometry system, highlighting a number of case studies including histone methylation, acetylation and deacetylation.