[bluebar.gif] Plasmid & Chromosome Dynamics July 22-27, 2001 Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH Gary Karpen, Chair KARPEN@SALK.EDU [bluebar.gif] Sunday July 22 I. Chromosome and Nuclear Structure 1 Chair: Gary Karpen 7:15 PM WELCOME 7:30 PM Joanna Bridger, Brunel University, UK "Interphase Chromosome Positioning - What's Involved?" 8 PM John Marko, University of Illinois, Chicago ``Micromechanical Experiments on Mitotic Chromosomes" 8:30 PM Nancy Kleckner, Harvard U, Cambridge "A Physico-mechanical view: chromosome breathing with resultant imposition and relief of stress governs chromosome activity" 9 PM Patrick Higgins, U of Alabama, Birmingham "DNA Dynamics and Domain Structure in Bacterial Chromosomes" 9:30 PM BAR Monday July 23 II. Chromosome and Nuclear Structure 2 Chair: Titia de Lange 9 AM Alexei Tulin, Carnegie Inst of Washington, Baltimore "Developmental Functions of ADP-ribosylation" 9:30 AM Lenny Guarente, MIT, Cambridge "Sir2 regulates aging in yeast and worms" 10 AM John Moran, U of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor "Studies of a Human Transposon" 10:30 AM BREAK & PHOTO III. Telomeres Chair: Abby Dernburg 11 AM Titia de Lange, Rockefeller U, New York "Protection and Maintenance of Human Telomeres" 11:30 AM Julia Cooper, U of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver "Telomeres and the Control of Cell Division" 12 PM Virginia Zakian, Princeton U "Telomere Maintenance in Yeast" 12:30 PM LUNCH 4:30 PM POSTER SESSION 6 PM DINNER IV. DNA and Chromatin Replication Chair: Allan Spradling 7:30 PM Saleem Khan, U of Pittsburgh School of Medicine "DNA-protein Interactions during the Initiation and termination of Plasmid Rolling Circle Replication" 8 PM Elliot Crooke, Georgetown U Med Center, Washington DC "DnaA Protein-Membrane Interactions in the Replication of the E. coli Chromosome." 8:30 PM Jorge Schvartzman, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Madrid, Spain "In Partially Replicated Plasmids Positive Supercoiling Leads to Replication Fork Reversal" 9 PM K. Raghuraman, U of Washington, Seattle "The Dynamics of Chromosome Replication in Yeast" Tuesday July 24 V. Condensation and Cohesion Chair: Rebecca Heald 9 AM Nancy Trun, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh "Structure/function analysis of CspE, a small, bi-functional nucleic acid binding protein involved in chromosome folding" 9:30 AM Tatsuya Hirano, Cold Spring Harbor Labs "Mechanisms of chromosome condensation from bacteria to humans" 10 AM Nick Cozzarelli, U of California, Berkeley "Mechanisms of chromosome condensation from bacteria to humans" 10:30 AM BREAK 11 AM Hironori Funabiki, Harvard U, Cambridge "Mining chromosomes in Xenopus egg extracts" 11:30 AM Kirsten Hagstrom, U of California, Berkeley "Mitotic Chromosome Condensation and Segregation by a Conserved Protein Complex" 12 PM Terry Orr-Weaver, Whitehead Institute/MIT, Cambridge "Regulation of DNA replication and chromosome segregation in Drosophila" 12:30 PM LUNCH 4:30 PM POSTER SESSION 6 PM DINNER VI. Plasmid and Chromosome Segregation 1 Chair: Saleem Khan 7:30 PM Stuart Austin, NCI-FCRDC, Frederick "Segregation of the P1 plasmid by time-lapse photomicroscopy" 8 PM Alan Grossman, MIT, Cambridge "DNA replication and chromosome partitioning in bacteria" 8:30 PM Barbara Funnell, U of Toronto, Toronto, Canada "The action of ParA and ParB in P1 plasmid partition" 9 PM David Lane, CNRS, Toulouse, France "The Role of SopA ATPase in Autoregulation and in Partition of Plasmid F" 9:30 PM BAR Wednesday July 25 VII. Plasmid and Chromosome Segregation 2 Chair: Barbara Funnell 9 AM Joe Pogliano, U of California, San Diego "Segregation of multicopy plasmids in bacteria" 9:30 AM Soundarapandian Velmuragan, U of Texas, Austin "Dynamics of 2 Micron Plasmid Segregation in Yeast by Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy" 10 AM Ken Marians, Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY "An Interaction between Topoisomerase IV and the Replication Machinery that Affects Chromosome Segregation in vivo" 10:30 AM BREAK VIII. Centromeres and Kinetochores 1 Chair: Kevin Sullivan 11 AM Paul Kaufman, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Labs, UC Berkeley "Function of Chromatin Assembly Proteins at the Yeast Centromere." 11:30 AM Ines Pinto, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville "The Role of Centromeric Chromatin during Chromosome Segregation in S. cerevisiae" 12 PM Pam Meluh, Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY "The Smt3p/SUMO-1 pathway impacts genomic stability in yeast" 12:30 PM LUNCH 4:30 PM POSTER SESSION 6 PM DINNER IX. Centromeres and Kinetochores 2 Chair: Don Cleveland 7:30 PM Janet Partridge, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK "A Cis-acting Element from Fission Yeast Centromeres Mediates Histone H3 Methylation and Recruitment of Silencing Factors at Ectopic Sites" 8 PM Beth Sullivan, The Salk Institute, La Jolla "FISHing and ChIPing at Drosophila centromeres" 8:30 PM Kevin Sullivan, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla "Assembly and Post-translational Modification of Kinetochore Chromatin: A Tale of Two Templates" 9 PM Daphne Preuss, U of Chicago "The Arabidopsis Centromeres: From DNA Sequence to Function" 9:30 PM BAR Thursday July 26 X. Centromeres and Kinetochores 3 Chair: Terry Orr-Weaver 9 AM Peter Warburton, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York "Expression of CENP-B/CENP-A fusion proteins in mammalian cells containing ectopic alpha satellite DNA" 9:30 AM Don Cleveland, Ludwig Institute, U of California, San Diego "Centromeres, CENP-E, Mps1, and the Mitotic Checkpoint" 10 AM Rebecca Heald, U of California, Berkeley "Centromeres: Who Needs Em? The Role of Non-centromeric Chromatin in Spindle Assembly" 10:30 AM BREAK XI. Meiosis 1 Chair: Pat Hunt 11 AM Sean Burgess, U of California, Davis "Probing the three-dimensional space of the meiotic nucleus in yeast using site-specific recombination" 11:30 AM Kaiming Sun, Brandeis University "Exploring Chromosome Architecture by Studying Recombination" 12 PM Vince Guacci, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia "The Budding Yeast PDS5 Gene Encodes a Chromosomal Protein Required for Chromatid Cohesion and Condensation during Meiosis" 12:30 PM LUNCH 4:30 PM POSTER SESSION 6 PM DINNER XII. Meiosis 2 Chair: Julia Cooper 7:30 PM Scott Hawley, U of California, Davis "Chromosome Pairing and Segregation in Drosophila females" 8 PM Mónica Colaiácovo, Stanford U, Palo Alto "Assembly and Function of the Synaptonemal Complex in C. elegans Meiosis" 8:30 PM Abby Dernburg, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Labs, UC Berkeley "Sex and the Single Pairing Center" 9 PM Pat Hunt, Case Western Reserve U, Cleveland "Meiotic chromosome segregation in the human female" 9:30 PM BAR [bluebar.gif] [back.gif] [home.gif] [apply.gif] [chairs.gif] [all.gif] [regpay.gif] [sites.gif] [travel.gif] [default.gif] Copyright © 2001 Gordon Research Conferences Last Updated: 8/7/01 by Jeff Carroll