| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Barb Funnell (University of Toronto) |
| John Marko (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Micromanipulation study of protein-DNA interactions and mitotic chromosome structure" |
| Shiv Grewal (National Institutes of Health)
"RNAi-mediated epigenetic control of the fission yeast genome" |
| Dmitry Vassylyev (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
"Structural studies of prokaryotic RNA polymerases" |
| Nancy Maizels (University of Washington)
"G4 DNA and the biology of G-rich genomic regions" |
| Yasushi Hiraoka (Kansai Advanced Research Center)
"Chromatin structures and dynamics in fission yeast meiosis" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COORDINATING REPLICATION AND SEGREGATION |
| Discussion Leader: Barbara Meyer (HHMI; University of California, Berkeley) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Deepak Bastia (Medical University of South Carolina)
"Replication Termination in Yeast" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Steve Bell (Cambridge University)
"DNA replication in the Archaea" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Susan Forsburg (University of Southern California)
"Replication, recombination and genome integrity in S. pombe" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Alexi Goranov (MIT)
"The processivity clamp, DnaN, regulates the initiation of DNA replication" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Kenneth Kreuzer (Duke University)
"Replication fork blockage and mechanism of drug action in E. coli" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Nancy Kleckner (Harvard Universtiy)
"In E.coli, loss of sister chromosome cohesion triggers global chromosome movement and mediates chromosome segregation" |
| 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 | ROLES OF COHESIN AND CONDENSIN COMPLEXES |
| Discussion Leader: John Marko (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Frank Uhlmann (Cancer Research UK)
"The Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion" |
| Tom Maresca (University of California, Berkeley)
"Chromosome Condensation and Segregation in Xenopus Egg Extracts" |
| Tatsuya Hirano (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"The Mechanochemical Cycle of SMC Proteins" |
| Barbara Meyer (HHMI, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Rolf Jessberger (Dresden University of Technology)
"Cohesins in Meiosis: from Chromosome Structure to Aneuploidies" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GENOME PLASTICITY AND CHROMOSOME EVOLUTION |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Cooper (Cancer Research UK) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Evan Eichler (University of Washington)
"Dynamic Duplications and Genome Evolution" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | George Chaconas (University of Calgary)
"Telomere Resolvase Mediated Genome Plasticity in Borrelia burgdorferi" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Identification of loci involved in meiotic drive in mice" |
| 10:30 am - 11:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am | Rachel O'Neill (University of Connecticut)
"Centromere Dynamics and Chromosome Evolution in Marsupials" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | L. Aravind (NCBI, NIH, NLM)
"Evolutionary History Of Prime Movers And Shakers in Chromosome Dynamics" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Matthew Meselson (Harvard University)
"Deleterious Transposable Elements and the Extinction of Asexual Lineages" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COORDINATING CHROMOSOME EVENTS DURING THE CELL CYCLE |
| Discussion Leader: Kenneth Kreuzer (Duke University) |
| Stuart Austin (National Cancer Institute)
"A closer look at E.coli chromosome Segregation" |
| Sigal Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew University)
"Sensing DNA Damage Upon Entry into Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis" |
| Julie Cooper (Cancer Research UK)
"Telomere Function Through the Cell Cycle" |
| Rasmus Jensen (Roskilde University)
"Control of Chromosome Segregation and Cellular Differentiation In Caulobacter crescentus" |
| Ling Juan Wu (University of Oxford)
"Co-ordination of Chromosome Positioning and Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | REGULATING CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION |
| Discussion Leader: Tatsuya Hirano (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Hironori Funabiki (Rockefeller University)
"Roles of Aurora B for Chromosome Segregation" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Jason Swedlow (University of Dundee)
"Aurora B Regulation and Function at the Mitotic Centromere" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Sue Biggins (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"Regulation of Spindle Assembly by the Ipl1/Aurora Protein Kinase" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Astrid Clarke (MIT)
"POLO Kinase Regulates the Drosophila Centromere Cohesion Protein MEI-S332" |
| 11:25 am - 11:55 am | Daniela Cimini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Role of Mitotic Spindle Mechanics in Preventing Mis-Segregation of Mis-attached Chromosomes" |
| 11:55 am - 12:25 pm | James Berger (University of California, Berkeley)
"Dissecting a Chromosome-Untangling Machine: Structural Studies Into Type II Topoisomerase Mechanism" |
| 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 | PARTITIONING MECHANISMS I |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) |
| Kelly Dawe (University of Georgia)
"Centromeres and Centromere Associated Proteins in Maize" |
| Makkuni (Jay) Jayaram (University of Texas at Austin)
"The Yeast Plasmid Partitioning Locus: An Impostor Centromere?" |
| Michael Fogel (Tufts University School of Medicine)
"Managing Multiple Chromosomes: par Loci Function in the Distinct Dynamics of the Two Vibrio cholerae Chromosomes" |
| David Sherratt (Oxford University)
"E. coli Chromosome Choreography; Asymmetric Chromosome Segregation" |
| Abby Dernburg (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
"Cis-acting Regions Are Essential For Both Homolog Synapsis and a Meiotic Checkpoint in C. elegans" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | RECOMBINATION AND GENOME REARRANGEMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew Meselson (Harvard University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | John Battista (Louisiana State University)
"A Ring-Like Nucleoid is Not Necessary for Radioresistance in the Deinococcaceae" |
| 9:30 am - 9:55 am | Dipankar Manna (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
"Genome-Wide Identification of Mu Transposition Targets In Escherichia coli And Salmonella typhimurium: Target Specificity Modulation By Local Nucleoid Organization" |
| 9:55 am - 10:25 am | Susan Lovett (Brandeis University) |
| 10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:25 am | John Moran (University of Michigan Medical School)
"Studies of a Human Retrotransposon" |
| 11:25 am - 11:55 am | Gary Karpen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
"Chromatin and Nuclear Function" |
| 11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Katsumi Kitagawa (St. Jude Children's Research)
"A Novel Type of Caspase-Independent Cell Death That Occurs during Mitosis in BUB1-Deficient Cells" |
| 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 | PARTITIONING MECHANISMS II |
| Discussion Leader: Pat Higgins (University of Alabama at Birmingham) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Barb Funnell (University of Toronto)
"Assembly of Partition Complexes During P1 Partition" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Arshad Desai (The Ludwig Institute, UCSD)
"Kinetochore Assembly: from Centromeric Chromatin to the Spindle Microtubule Interface" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
"The Pairing and Segregation of Achiasmate Homologs" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Don Cleveland (The Ludwig Institute, UCSD)
"Guarding the genome: the mitotic checkpoint, aneuploidy, and cancer" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
