18:00 |
Registration and “Welcome cocktail” at the meeting place “Palazzo Steri” (University of Palermo) |
20:30 |
Free dinner (not included in the package) |
9:00-10:00 |
Registration, welcome and opening of the meeting |
Chair: Davide Corona |
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10:00-10:30 |
Kent Golic Dicentric chromosome breakage and repair |
10:40-11:10 |
Travis Karg Mechanisms of acentric chromosome segregation |
11:10-11:40 |
Coffee break |
11:40-12:10 |
Brandt Warecki Aurora B mediated localized delays in nuclear envelope formation facilitates inclusion of late segregating chromosome fragments |
12:20-12:50 |
Ting Wu Single-molecule super-resolution in situ imaging of chromosomal DNA in Drosophila with a sidebar on haplotype visualization |
13:00-14:45 |
Lunch |
Chair: Kent Golic |
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14:45-15:15 |
Irene Chiolo Right place, right time: novel role of nuclear periphery in heterochromatin repair |
15:25-15:55 |
Pamela Geyer Non-canonical activation of the DNA damage pathway reduces germline stem cell survival in Drosophila |
16:05-16:35 |
William Sullivan Why is heterochromatin so closely associated with the centromere? |
16:45-17:00 |
Coffee break |
17:00-19:30 |
Guided tour of Palermo |
19:45 |
Dinner on "caiccho" a typical sicilian boat |
Chair: Gary Karpen |
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9:30-10:00 |
Abby Dernburg H3K9 methylation shapes the meiotic recombination landscape in C. elegans |
10:10-10:40 |
Gunter Reuter Chromatin organization at synaptonemal complexes and crossover control in Drosophila |
10:50-11:10 |
Coffee break |
11:10-11:40 |
Eduardo Gorab Further data on the occurrence of triple-helical DNA in Drosophila Heterochromatin |
11:50-12:20 |
Keith Maggert Probing heterochromatin stability - sequence and function |
12:30-14:30 |
Lunch |
Chair: Maurizio Gatti |
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14:30-15:00 |
Tatiana Kolesnikova Chromatin states and replication patterns in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster |
15:10-15:40 |
Patrizio Dimitri The BCNT proteins: a long-neglected class of multifaceted proteins |
15:50-16:20 |
Davide Corona trans-activation: a new epigenetic phenomenon underlying transcriptional memory |
16:30-16:50 |
Coffee break |
16:50-19:30 |
Poster session |
19:30 |
Free time and free dinner (not included in the package) |
Chair: Gunter Reuter |
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9:00-9:30 |
François Karch Structure/Function dissection of the Fab-7 boundary within the context of the bithorax complex |
9:40-10:10 |
Luca Lo Piccolo Modulation of ω-speckle structure by ISWI chromatin remodeler: new insights into neurogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster |
10:20-10:35 |
Coffee break |
10:40-11:10 |
Zheng Zhou Structural study of an internal dual-chaperone system for SWR1-mediated histone H2A.Z replacement |
11:20-11:40 |
Martin Muller Regulatory architecture of the apterous locus |
11:50-12:20 |
Wolfgang Miller Low-titer symbionts of Drosophila that matter: new lessons from Wolbachia |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 |
Round Trip by bus to Segesta, Marsala, Torre di Nubia. Dinner in the museum of salt |
Chair: Pamela Geyer |
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10:00-10:30 |
James Birchler Dosage compensation in Drosophila: shifting chromatin states to achieve effective genomic balance |
10:40-11:10 |
Victoria Meller Identification of X chromatin by long and short noncoding RNA |
11:20-11:40 |
Coffee break |
11:40-12:10 |
Jan Larsson Repeated elements, heterochromatin and chromosome-specific targeting in Drosophila |
12:20-12:50 |
Maria Kim roX2 RNA decorates Y-chromosome loops in Drosophila spermatocytes |
13:00-15:00 |
Lunch |
Chair: Maria Pia Bozzetti |
15:00-15:30 |
Gary Karpen Can phase separation principles account for the formation and function of the heterochromatin domain? |
15:40-16:10 |
Bernardo Carvalho PacBio sequencing to resolve difficult genomic regions: The Mst77Y genes on the Drosophila melanogaster Y chromosome |
16:20-16:50 |
Marie Fablet A population look at the piRNA pathway in Drosophila |
17:00-17:20 |
Coffee break |
17:20-17:50 |
Yikang Rong MTV, a telomeric ssDNA-binding complex, protects Drosophila telomeres and recruits retrotransposons to chromosome ends |
18:00-18:30 |
Maurizio Gatti pendolino (peo) a gene required for protection of Drosophila heterochromatic telomeres |
18:40 |
Free time and free dinner (not included in the package) |
Chair: Ting Wu |
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9:30-10:00 |
Alexei Aravin The interplay between chromatin and piRNA |
10:10-10:40 |
Katalin Fejes Tóth Small RNAs guide establishment of repressive chromatin marks on transposons in the Drosophila germline |
10:50-11:10 |
Coffee break |
11:10-11:40 |
Haifan Lin Uniting major constituents of the genome: the role of piRNAs in the germline |
11:50-12:20 |
Maria Pia Bozzetti Searching for members of the piRNA-mediated transposon silencing in the gonads looking at the modifiers of the crystal-Stellate regulation |
12:30-13:00 |
Gustavo Kuhn Drosophila DINE-TR1 is abundant in heterochromatin, participates in piRNA biogenesis and is a recurrent source for satellite DNA emergence |
13:10-15:00 |
Lunch |
Chair: Ting Wu |
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15:10-15:40 |
Amanda Larracuente Intragenomic conflict and satellite DNA evolution in Drosophila |
15:50-16:20 |
Sergio Pimpinelli Transposons jumping into the Canalization and Assimilation concepts |
19:30 |
Departure by bus to Mondello: Sunset and Farewell Banquet |
9:30-10:30 |
Closure of the conference |
10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Davide Corona
University of Palermo
Sergio Pimpinelli
Sapienza University of Rome