| 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: Landmark Discoveries and Exciting Opportunities in Chromosome Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Lane (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Virginia Zakian (Princeton University, USA)
"Getting from Here to There: Evolution of a Project
Getting from here to there: evolution of a project
or random thoughts on yeast chromosomes
Getting from here to there: evolution of a project
" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Views of Chromosomes and Nuclei |
| Discussion Leader: David Rudner (Harvard Medical School, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Ines Drinnenberg (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Overcoming AbCENs: Recurrent Loss of an Essential Gene in Holocentric Insects" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Kyle Eagen (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
"Chromosome Condensation in the Interphase Nucleus" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Sarah Milbredt (LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Germany)
"A New Single-Cell Method to Determine Copy Numbers of Genetic Loci Facilitates Analysis of DNA-Replication Timing in Multi-Chromosome Bacteria" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Danni Wang (New York University, USA)
"Nucleolar Size is Linked to Position-Dependent Desilencing of the Ribosomal DNA" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Kathryn Sieverman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Keeping Quiet: Does Heterochromatin Stay Silent During Homologous Recombination?" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Dynamic Lives of Chromosomes |
| Discussion Leader: Bodo Stern (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Christof Osman (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Integrity of the Yeast Mitochondrial Genome, but Not Its Distribution and Inheritance, Relies on Mitochondrial Fission and Fusion" |
| 9:15 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | Mridula Nambiar (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
"Molecular Basis of Deleterious Pericentric Recombination during Meiosis" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:05 am | Emily Helgesen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)
"Stabilization of E. coli Replication Forks by Dynamic SeqA Structures" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Gero Fink (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
"Reconstitution of a Prokaryotic Minus-End Tracking System from TubZRC Centromeric Complexes and Tubulin-Like Filaments" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Devanshi Jain (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"A Phenotype-Based Forward-Genetics Approach to Illuminate Meiotic Recombination and Chromosome Structure in Mammals" |
| 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: Careers Inside and Outside Academia |
| Discussion Leader: Ofer Rog (University of California, Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Careers in Science" |
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- Karen Carniol (Cell Press, USA)
- David Rudner (Harvard Medical School, USA)
- Bodo Stern (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
