| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Chromosome-Microtubule Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Maddox (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Arshad Desai (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Insights into the Dynamic Evolution of the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Epigenetics of Centromere Function |
| Discussion Leader: Daniele Fachinetti (Institut Curie, France) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Anne Barbosa (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
"Using Chromosome Engineering on Unusual Natural Isolate of the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to Investigate Epigenetic Inheritance of the Kinetochore" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Bradley French (Stanford University, USA)
"Dissecting the Role of the Mis18 Complex in the Spatiotemporal Regulation of CENP-A Assembly" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Sundaram Kuppu (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Point Mutations in CenH3 Induce Zygotic Incompatibility and Uniparental Inheritance" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Nuno Martins (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Centromeres and Heterochromatin: A Love-Hate Relationship" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Emerging Areas in Centromere Research |
| Discussion Leader: Kerry Bloom (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Konstanty Cieslinski (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
"Structural Studies of the Budding Yeast Kinetochore Using Dual-Color Superresolution Microscopy" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:45 am | Daniel Melters (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
"CENP-C Occupies to a Unique Centormeric Chromatin Domain" |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Yuji Tanno (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (IMCB), University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Destabilization of the Inner Centromere-Shugoshin Network Causes Chromosomal Instability" |
| 10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:35 am | Kwaku Opoku (University of Washington, USA)
"Examining the Release of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Proteins from Single Kinetochores In Vitro" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Fan Yang (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore)
"Functional Analyses of Centromere Proteins CenpA and CenpC in Magnaporthe oryzae" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Navigating Careers in Science |
| This will be a career panel of accomplished scientists from multiple career trajectories. Please come with your career, and job, related questions. |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Miga (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Navigating Careers in Science" |
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- Kerry Bloom (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
- Patrick Heun (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
- Rachel O'Neill (University of Connecticut, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
