Chromosome Dynamics
Late Summer Meeting
Vienna, September 9-12, 2012
IMP Lecture Hall
Sunday, September 9, 2012
03:00-04:00 pm
Welcome
The basic structure of chromosomes (Chair: N. Kleckner)
4:00-04:45 pm
04:45-05:20 pm
Nancy Kleckner (keynote)
“Loops and Tethers Along and Between Chromosomes: Important Roles
and Important Constraints for Meiotic and Mitotic Chromosomes and
for E. coli”
Jan Michael Peters
“Wapl, Sororin and the regulation of cohesion”
Coffee break
05:35-06:10 pm
Barbara J. Meyer
“Establishing and Releasing Chromosome Cohesion During Gamete
Production”
06:10 -06:45 pm
Denise Zickler
“Contribution of filamentous fungi to the understanding of meiosis”
06:45-07:20 pm
Iva Tolic
“Meiotic chromosome oscillations: What are they good for?”
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Monday, September 10, 2012
DSBs, repair and regulations I (Chair: Alain Nicolas)
09:00-09:35 am
09:35-10:10 am
10:10-10:45 am
Alain Nicolas
“Role of G-quadruplexes in genome instability”
Peter Schlögelhofer
“DSBs in wild type and mutant yeast”
Gerry Smith
“Meiotic DSB Hotspots: Protein Determinants, DSB Interference, and
Hotspot Clustering”
Coffee break
11:15-11:50 am
Vincent Géli
“Interaction between Mer2 and the COMPASS subunit Spp1 links
meiotic DSB sites to chromosome axis”
11:50-12:25 am
12:25-01:00 pm
Timothy Humphrey
“A chromatin switch regulating DNA double-strand break repair
pathway choice'”
Attila Toth
“Surveillance mechanisms of the meiotic prophase in mammals”
DSBs, repair and regulations II (Chair: Michael Lichten)
02:00-02:35 pm
02:35-03:10 pm
03:10-03:55 pm
03:55-04:30 pm
Enrique Martinez-Perez
“Finding the correct pairing partner during meiosis: events inside and
outside the nucleus”
Jordi Torres-Rossel
"Regulation of SMC complexes by SUMO, and vice versa."
Andrea Pichler
"Role of Ubc9 sumoylation in meiotic chromosome synapsis in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Nancy Hollingsworth
“Roles of the Rad51 and Dmc1 recombinases in budding yeast meiosis”
Coffee break
04:45-05:20 pm
Anne Villeneuve
“Regulating DSB and crossover formation during C. elegans meiosis”
05:20-05:55 pm
Michael Lichten
"Control of meiotic recombination outcome: Sgs1 helicase acts as a
chaperone for meiotic recombination intermediates"
05:55-06:30 pm
Franz Klein
"The Smc5/6 complex acts in the non-ZMM pathway of meiotic
recombination"
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Cell cycle & segregation (Chair: Wolfgang Zachariae)
09:00-9:35am
09:35-10:10 am
10:10-10:45 am
Wolfgang Zachariae
"How Meiotic Cells Switch from Prophase into M-phase"
Albert Sickman
“Dynamics of protein degradation”
Daniel Gerlich
"Aurora B-counteracting phosphatases in the regulation of chromosome
segregation"
Coffee break
11:00-11:35 am
11:35-12:10 pm
Mary Herbert
“Plk1 is required for stepwise removal of cohesion during meiosis in
mammalian oocytes”
Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski
"The spindle assembly checkpoint of meiosis I oocytes depends on a
kinetochore structure determined by cohesion"
12:10-12:45 pm
Mark Petronczki
"Delivery of the cytokinetic signal to the cell envelope"
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Kinetochore & Segregation (Chair: Tomo Tanaka)
09:00-9:35 am
09:35-10:10 am
10:10-10:45 am
Tomo Tanaka
“A common kinetochore-associated mechanism governs replication timing and
sister chromatid cohesion at yeast peri-centromeres”
Stefan Westermann
"Molecular architecture of the budding yeast kinetochore"
Kevin Corbett
“Structure and mechanism of the S. cerevisiae monopolin complex"
Coffee break
11:15-11:50 am
11:50-12:25 pm
12:25-01:00 pm
Franz Herzog
"Structural probing of a protein phosphatase 2A network by chemical
cross-linking and mass spectrometry”
Juro Gregan
“The role of casein kinase 1 in fission yeast meiosis”
Marie-Hélene Verlhac
“Cortical stiffness prevents spindle positioning in mouse oocytes”