| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 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 | CELL CYCLE: MEIOTIC ENTRY, S-PHASE AND PROGRESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Keeney (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm | Hajime Murakami (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY)
"Cdc7/Dbf4 Kinase Couples Meiotic DNA Replication and Recombination Initiation" |
| 3:30 pm - 3:35 pm | Discussion |
| 3:35 pm - 3:50 pm | Hsiao-Chi Lo (Stony Brook University, NY)
"Cdc7 kinase activity suppresses Sum1-mediated repression to promote NDT80 transcription during budding yeast meiosis" |
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion / Session Wrap-Up |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BREAKING AND TRADING INFORMATION: RECOMBINATION AND REPAIR |
| Discussion Leaders: Gerry Smith (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) and Jeff Sekelsky (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Esther DeBoer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY)
"Relating events in individual hotspots to chromosomal regions of preferred crossover formation in mouse meiosis" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Francesca Cole (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY)
"Crossover and noncrossover differentiation in mouse meiotic recombination" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Kathryn Kohl (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)
"Identification of a Novel MCM Complex Involved in Meiotic Crossover Formation" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Maheen Ferdous (University of Birmingham)
"ASY3, a novel component of meiotic chromosome axes that is required for chromosome synapsis and crossover formation during meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Nicole Crown (University of Indiana)
"Characterization of nbs1 mutants of Coprinus cinereus in meiosis" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Sarah Zanders (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
"Pch2 regulates interhomolog and intersister double-strand break repair" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MEIOTIC CHROMOSOME DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leaders: Anne Villeneuve (Stanford University) and Raphael Mercier (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Matthew Johnson (Washington State University)
"A specific interspersed repetitive element is utilized as a sequence-binding motif that facilitates meiotic synapsis in mammalian males and females" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Chih-Ying Lee (Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation)
"Telomere-mediated Movement, Not Bouquet Formation, Is Required to Promote Meiotic Chromosome Pairing" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Sarah Radford (Rutgers University)
"Microtubule-depolymerizing Kinesin Klp10A is Required for Meiotic Spindle Integrity in Drosophila Females" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Cate Paschal (UC Santa Cruz, CA)
"ZHP-3 Regulates Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics in C. elegans" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | David Wynne (UC Berkeley, CA)
"Motor-Driven Motion Associated with Meiotic Chromosome Pairing in C. elegans" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:25 am | Yi-Ju Lai (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
"Genetic Requirements and Meiotic Functions of Phosphorylation in Yeast Axial Element Red1 Protein" |
| 11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Laurie Grandont (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France)
"Crossovers get a boost in Brassica allotriploid and allotetraploid hybrids" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Alexander Fedotov (Emory University, GA)
"Higher-order chromatin architecture contributes to the dynamics of histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation during C. elegans meiosis" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Wrap-Up Discussion with Mentors |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 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. |
