July 22-27, 2001 Gary Karpen, Chair |
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 |
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