Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks
Discussion Leaders: Jongmin Kim (Massachusetts General Hospital, United States) and Mary Gehring (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Heather Marlow (University of Chicago, United States)
"The Interplay Between Gene Regulatory Strategies and 3D Chromatin Architecture: Insight From Invertebrate Systems"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Epigenetics in Development and Response to Environment
Discussion Leaders: Mary Goll (University of Georgia, United States) and Monica Reeves (Emory University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Shihui Chen (University of Southern California, United States)
"Regulation of Small RNA Binding Specificity for a C. elegans Nuclear Argonaute Protein"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Rocío Nunez-Vazquez (Center for Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa (CBMSO), Spain)
"Histone H3 Variants: New Players of the Abiotic Stress Response in Arabidopsis"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Nishita Parnandi (Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
"CoDAC-Seq: A Low Input Method for Profiling Chromatin States and DNA Double-Strand Breaks Simultaneously"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Mukulika Ray (Brown University, United States)
"Sex-Specific Transcript Diversity is Regulated by a Maternal Transcription Factor in Early Drosophila Embryos"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Chromatin Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders: Petra Hajkova (MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom) and Tomasz Bieluszewski (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Aushaq Malla (Yale University, United States)
"Connecting Dots for DOTIL: Implications in Sperm Chromatin Remodeling and Embryotic Development"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Abby Trouth (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States)
"Cell Cycle Duration Influences Facultative Heterochromatin Levels"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Rajesh Ranjan (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
"DNA Replication Establishes Asymmetric Epigenetics at Sister Centromeress"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Oladimeji Olaluwoye (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
"Solution Dynamics of Nucleosomes using HDX"
10:50 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
New Approaches in Epigenetics
Discussion Leader: Ellen Jarred (Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Daniel Buendia Avila (Gregor Mendel Institute-Vienna, Austria, Austria)
"Everything Everywhere all at Once? Understanding Transposon Silencing in the Minute Flowering Plant Wolffia "
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Alejandro Edera (Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, France)
"Strand-biased and Intermediate DNA Methylation of Centromeric Repeats in Arabidopsis thaliana "
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes