| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chromatin and Chromosome Organization |
| Discussion leader: Patrick Higgins (University of Alabama, Birmingham) |
| John Marko (University Illinois, Chicago)
Micromanipulation study of chromatin and chromosomes |
| Nancy Craig (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore)
Using Transposons to Study Chromosome Organization |
| Lori L Wallrath (University of Iowa, Iowa City)
Heterochromatin Protein 1: A structural component for chromatin compaction and regulated gene expression |
| Shiv Grewal (NIH, Bethesda)
Linking higher-order chromatin assembly to RNAi |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Replication |
| Discussion leader: Barbara Funnell (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| Elliott Crooke (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC)
Temporally and Spatially Controlled Initiation of E. coli Chromosomal Replication |
| James Berger (University of California, Berkeley)
Building a structural framework for DNA replication initiation |
| Michael O'Donnell (Rockefeller University, New York)
Intelligence Underling a Processivity Switch in the E. coli Replication Machine |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Discussion leader: Elliott Crooke (Georgetown Univ Medical Center, Washington, DC) |
| Kenneth Kreuzer (Duke University, Durham)
Stopping and re-starting replication forks in bacteriophage T4 |
| Saleem Khan (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
Role of the PcrA helicase in DNA transactions |
| Dhruba Chattoraj (NIH, Bethesda)
Dampening of noise in plasmid copy number by autoregulation |
| 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 | Chromosome Domains |
| Discussion leader: Lori L. Wallrath (University of Iowa, Iowa City) |
| Patrick Higgins (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Chromosome domains: stochastic and process-specific boundary formation |
| Sigal Ben-Yehuda (Harvard University, Cambridge)
RacA, a Bacterial Protein That Anchors Chromosomes to the Cell Poles |
| Jeannie Lee (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston)
Epigenetic regulation of X-chromosome inactivation |
| Raymond Chan (University of California, Berkeley)
Participation of the C. elegans clock gene paralog TIM-1 in chromosome cohesion reveals new roles for cohesin and condensin in meiosis
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| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Centromeres and Kinetochores |
| Discussion leader: Angelika Amon (MIT, Cambridge) |
| Daphne Preuss (University of Chicago)
Centromere structure and function in Arabidopsis and its relatives |
| Jason Swedlow (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
Aurora B protein kinase regulates the centromere targeting and microtubule depolymerising activity of MCAK |
| Barbara Funnell (University Toronto, Canada)
The interactions of ParA, ParB, and ATP during partition of P1 plasmids in E. coli |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Discussion leader: David Sherratt (Oxford University, United Kingdom) |
| Gary Karpen (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, UC Berkeley)
Centromeric chromatin and kinetochore function |
| Alicia Alonso (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York)
Identification of CENP-A binding domains at human neo-centromeres |
| Kenn Gerdes (University of Southern Denmark)
Prokaryotic analogue of the eukaryotic spindle: Plasmid DNA segregation by an F-actin-like filament |
| 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 | Condensation and Cohesion |
| Discussion leader: Nick Cozzarelli (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Carlos Bustamante (University of California, Berkeley)
Single molecule measurements of DNA condensation |
| Tatsuya Hirano (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The action of condensin in vivo and in vitro |
| Sota Hiraga (Kyoto University, Japan)
Chromosome dynamics in E. coli |
| Brigitte Lavoie (University of Toronto, Canada)
In vivo requirements for chromosome condensation reveal two cell cycle regulated pathways for mitotic chromosome folding |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Chromosome Segregation |
| Discussion leader: Nancy Craig (Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, Baltimore) |
| Angelika Amon (MIT, Cambridge)
The role of Cdc14 in controlling chromosome segregation |
| Stuart Austin (NCI, Frederick)
The dynamics of Eschericia coli chromosome segregation |
| Kenneth Marians (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York)
Topoisomerase IV and Chromosome Segregation in E. coli |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Discussion leader: Stuart Austin (NCI, Frederick) |
| David Sherratt (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
Action of FtsK in bacterial chromosome segregation |
| Nick Cozzarelli (University of California, Berkeley)
Enzymes involved in the segregation of completed daughter chromosomes |
| Makkuni (Jay) Jayaram (University of Texas, Austin)
The Coupling of plasmid and chromosome segregation in yeast is mediated through the mitotic spindle and the cohesin complex |
| 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 | Business Meeting |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ends |
| Discussion leader: Jim Haber (Brandeis University, Waltham) |
| Ginger Zakian (Princeton University)
Regulation of telomerase in yeast |
| George Chaconas (University of Calgary, Canada)
Telomere resolution and DNA replication in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete |
| Anne Stellwagen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)
Recruiting Telomerase to Different Kinds of DNA Ends: A Role For Ku |
| Hironori Funabiki (Rockefeller University, New York)
Identification and characterization of chromosome binding proteins involved in chromosome maintenance |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Genome Plasticity |
| Discussion leader: Ginger Zakian (Princeton University) |
| Jeff F. Miller (University of California, Los Angeles)
Diversity-generating Retroelements |
| John Moran (University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor)
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon |
| James Haber (Brandeis University, Waltham)
Constraints on chromosome movement during recombination |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Discussion leader: Saleem Khan (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) |
| Matt Waldor (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston)
Mechanisms of gene exchange in Vibrio cholerae |
| David Dubnau (Public Health Research Institute, Newark)
Mechanisms and regulation of genetic transformation in bacteria |
| Matt Thayer (Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland)
Chromosome rearrangements and delayed mitotic chromosome condensation |
| 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 | Pairing and Meoisis |
| Discussion leader: Gary Karpen (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, UC Berkeley) |
| Abby Dernburg (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, UC Berkeley)
Coordinating Pairing and Synapsis during Meiosis |
| Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO)
The analysis of a simple meiotic system in Drosophila melanogaster females |
| Sharon Bickel (Dartmouth College, Hanover)
Sister-chromatid cohesion and chromosome segregation during meiosis in Drosophila |
| Kentaro Nabeshima (Stanford University)
Meiotic chromosome morphogenesis and function in C. elegans |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
