| SATURDAY |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Presentation: Meiotic Recombination |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Cooper (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Scott Keeney (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"Controlling the number and location of meiotic double-strand breaks" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Chromosomal Organization and Interactions |
| Discussion Leaders: Frank Uhlmann (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom) and Anna Sliva (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Karl Duderstadt (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Single replication machines at work: the coordination of daughter strand synthesis"
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| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Shigeki Nagai (Stanford University School of Medicine)
"Transcribing native chromatin in vitro" |
| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Alexander Benke (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Super-resolution microscopy reveals sub-diffraction higher-order chromatin organization and dynamics in living cells"
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| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Morten Kjos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Passive and active mechanisms drive chromosome segregation in Streptococcus pneumoniae"
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| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Meiotic Chromosomes |
| Discussion Leaders: Bodo Stern (Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology) and Karl Duderstadt (University of Groningen, Netherlands) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Ofer Rog (University of California, Berkeley/Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
"In vivo visualization of chromosome synapsis in C. elegans"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Kimberly Collins (Stowers Institute For Medical Research)
"Corolla encodes a central element protein within the Drosophila Synaptonemal Complex"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Alfonso Fernandez-Alvarez (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom)
"The telomere bouquet controls SUN-domain protein accumulation and centrosome activity during meiosis"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Sarah Zanders (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"How to cheat at sex and win: meiotic drive in fission yeast"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Perspectives on Science Careers |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Keeney (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Julie Cooper (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom)
"Careers in Academia"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm | Bodo Stern (Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology)
"Careers in Science Publishing"
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| 2:10 pm - 2:45 pm | Discussion |
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
