| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in
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| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chromatin Structure and Nuclear Organization |
| Tim Richmond, Chair |
| Tim Richmond
Chromatin structure |
| Susan Gasser
The Dynamics and Anchoring of chromatin in the interphase nucleus |
| Andy Belmont
Large-scale chromatin structure |
| David Spector
Visualizing Gene Expression in Living Cells |
| Uli Laemmli
Functional nuclear anchors and chromatin domains |
| Kathy Wilson
Barrier-to-autointegration factor: a key new player in chromatin architecture |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Silencing /Heterochromatin |
| Susan Gasser, Chair |
| Chris Woodcock
Visualizing conformational differences between silenced and active nucleosomal arrays in defined sequence and bulk chromatin |
| Sharon Dent
Histone modifications in Ssn6-Tup1 repression and beyond |
| Jim Broach
Chromosome dynamics in mating type switching in yeast |
| Shiv Grewal
Higher-order chromatin assembly in fission yeast |
| Sarah Elgin
HP1, HP2, and Chromatin Domains in Drosophila |
| Sepideh Khorasanizadeh
Interaction of chromodomain with methyllysine of
histone H3 |
| Paul Kaufman
Heterochromatin proteins at the budding yeast centromere |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Histone Modifications |
| Lorraine Pillus, Chair |
| Lorraine Pillus
Modifying chromatin and gene expression |
| Rolf Sternglanz
Yeast Histone-Modifying Enzymes
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| Mike Grunstein
Novel functions for histone deacetylases in yeast |
| Ronen Marmorstein
Histone Acetrytransferases: From Structure to Function |
| Mary Ann Osley
Role of ubiquitylated H2B in transcription in yeast |
| Bryan Turner
Histone modifications and dosage compensation in mammals |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Chromosome Dynamics/Cell Cycle |
| Mitch Smith, Chair |
| Mitch Smith
Molecular Genetics of Variant Histone Function |
| David Tremethick
Does the essential histone variant H2A.Z have more than one role? |
| Robin Allshire
Fission Yeast Centromeres: silencing & function |
| Genevieve Almouzni
Chromatin assembly : maintenance and propagation of epigenetic states, from nucleosome formation to defining heterochromatin
compartment |
| Steve Bell
Cell Cycle Control of the Assembly of a Chromatin Domain |
| William Bonner
Roles of H2AX in mice and yeast |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Transcription Factors and Expression |
| Shelley Berger, Chair |
| Shelley Berger
Patterns of histone covalent modifications in gene activation |
| Bob Roeder
Integrated Functions of Diverse Transcriptional Coactivators |
| Danny Reinberg
Chromatin dynamic and transcription |
| Tony Kouzarides
Histone methylation in transcriptional control |
| Peter Fraser
Primary events in short and long-range decisions |
| Yi Zhang
Methylation of H3-lysine 79 is mediated by a new family of HMTases without a SET domain |
| Joe Reese
Chromatin remodeling at RNR3 requires TAFII and RNA polymerase II-dependent recruitment of SWI/SNF |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Epigenetic and Developmental Regulation |
| Lori Wallrath, Chair |
| Bev Emerson
Specificity of Gene Regulation in Chromatin |
| Lori Wallrath
The role of Heterochromatin Protein 1 in building silent chromatin |
| Thomas Jenuwein
Chromatin organization by histone methylation |
| Jeannie Lee
Dissecting the mechanism of antisense regulation in X-chromosome inactivation |
| Edith Heard
Early chromatin changes in the establishment of the inactive X chromosome |
| Mitzi Kuroda
roX RNAs, chromatin entry sites, and dosage compensation in Drosophila |
| Bill Kelly
Chromatin Regulation and Imprinting in C. elegans |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chromatin Remodeling |
| Fred Winston, Chair |
| Fred Winston
Analysis of factors that control chromatin and transcription in yeast |
| Bob Kingston
ATP-dependent remodeling complexes and Polycomb complexes |
| Peter Becker
Regulation of ISWI-induced nucleosome sliding |
| Carl Wu
ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes for transcription |
| Craig Peterson
Chromatin remodeling machines |
| Karolin Luger
Effects of ligand binding on structure and dynamics of the nucleosome |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Long-range Chromatin Organization and Effects |
| Gary Felsenfeld, Chair |
| Gary Felsenfeld
Chromatin boundaries |
| Bob Simpson
Yeast Chromatin Domains - Composition and Structure |
| Pam Geyer
Tales of a gypsy: lessons on insulator function |
| Steve Henikoff
Chromatin states distinguished by variant H3 histones |
| Vincenzo Pirrotta
Polycomb silencing and chromatin memory |
| Steve Jacobsen
Genetics of histone and DNA methylation in Arabidopsis |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Disease Links/Signaling |
| Leonard Guarente, Chair |
| Leonard Guarente
Regulation of aging by Sir2 |
| Rick Young
Genome regulatory networks in living cells |
| Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Histone H3
phosphorylation and poly(ADP-)ribosylation: key events controlling male germ cells proliferation |
| Margie Oettinger
Regulating lymphoid development: lineage specific chromatin modifications associated with V(D)J recombination |
| Yoshihiro Nakatani
Chromatin and cancer |
| Fyodor Urnov
Chromatin and the epigenome |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
