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Currently viewing: 31 May - 3 June | 2007 | Presqu'île de Giens|France

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31 May |Welcome & invited speakers

1 June | Session I | II | III

2 June | Session IV | V

3 June | Session VI

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31 May

 

1500-1800

Check in and registration

 

1900-2015

Dinner

 

2015-2030

Welcome and Announcements
(Charles White)

 

2030-2130

Jim Haber
Multiple pathways to repair double-strand breaks and thoughts about gene targeting.

 

2130-2230

Barbara Hohn
Homologous recombination as a sensor to environmental challenges.

 

2230

Poster set-up and wine

 
 

1 June

 

0700-0800

Breakfast

 

0800-1120

SESSION I

 

Somatic DNA repair and recombination I-
(Chairs: Charles White and Anne Britt )

 

0800 - 0830

Anne Britt

Regulation of IR-induced checkpoint responses

 

0830 - 0850

Toon Cools
Arabidopsis WEE1 Kinase Controls Cell Cycle Arrest in Response to Activation of the DNA Integrity Checkpoint.

 

0850 - 0910

Pascal Genschik
The CUL4-DDB1-DDB2 complex and genome integrity.

 

0910 - 0930

Wei Xiao
Arabidopsis thaliana Ubc13-Uev complexes and DNA damage tolerance

 

0930-0950

Charles White
Roles of the Rad51 paralogs in mitosis and meiosis

 

0950-1010

Coffee Break

 
   

1010-1030

Marie-Edith Chabouté
New partner in DSB-induced gammaH2AX foci in Arabidopsis

 

1020-1040

Seiichi Toki
Homologous recombinational repair and cell cycle regulation in Arabidopsis.

 

1040-1100

Ayako Sakamoto
Functional analysis of DNA polymerase zeta and REV1 protein in Arabidopsis

 

1100-1120

John Hays
Requirements of DNA translesion polymerases Zeta and/or Eta for coordinated tissue growth in Arabidopsis developing ovaries and UVB-irradiated root meristems

 


1120-1200


Posters/free time

 

1200-1330

Lunch

 

1330-1600

Free time

 
   

1600-1800

SESSION II

 

Somatic DNA repair and recombination II
(Chairs: Holger Puchta and Barbara Hohn)

 

1600-1630

Holger Puchta
Role of Human Disease Genes for Genome Stability in Arabidopsis thaliana

 

1630-1650

Peter Schlogelhofer
The Arabidopsis thaliana AtGR1/COM1 gene is essential for DNA repair and meiosis and relates yeast's COM1/SAE2 to the human CtIP gene

 

1650-1710

Thomas Peterson
Transposon-Induced Genome Rearrangements in Maize and Arabidopsis

 

1710-1730

Didier G. Schaefer
Genetic analysis of transformation in the moss Physcomitrella patens

 

1730-1750

Bernd Reiss
RAD51 genes have different roles in Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis thaliana.

 

1800-1930

Dinner

 
   

2000-2200

SESSION III

 

Chromatin and Epigenetics
(Chair: Jurek Paszkowski)

 

2000-2030

Jurek Paszkowski
DNA methylation and other epigenetic marks in Arabidopsis.

 

2030-2100

Rob Martienssen
Silent running: RNA interference and heterochromatic modifications in plants and fission yeast.

 

2100-2120

Marcelina Garcia-Aguilar
A functional and comparative analysis of chromatin changes associated with the control of reproductive development in sexual and apomictic plants.

 

2120-2140

Teresa Roldan-Arjona
DNA Demethylation by 5-methylcitosine excision, a new mechanism of epigenetic reprograming in plants.

 

2140-2200

Corina Belle Villar
Mechanisms of Polycomb group-mediated gene silencing in Arabidopsis

 

2200-0000

Posters and wine

 
   

2 June

 

0700-0800

Breakfast

 

0800-1120

SESSION IV

 

Chromosome maintenance and architecture
(Chairs: Dorothy Shippen and Karel Riha)

 

0800-0830

Dorothy Shippen

Chromosome end protection in Arabidopsis

 

0830-0900

Karel Riha

Role of the Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer in telomere metabolism

 

0900-0920

Sue Armstrong

Dynamics of telomere behaviour in Arabidopsis thaliana meiosis

 

0920-0940

Ingo Schubert
HR versus NHEJ at the chromosomal level

 

0940-1000

Coffee break

 

1000-1020

Maria Gallego
AtRad1/AtErcc1 endonuclease and telomere stability in Arabidopsis

 

1020-1040

aurent Vespa
A role of ATM in telomere length regulation in Arabidopsis

 

1040-1100

Jiri Fajkus
Mapping of interaction domains of putative plant telomere proteins

 

1100-1120

Koichi Watanabe
Positional sister chromatid alignment in a mutant of the Arabidopsis homolog of Structural Maintenance of Chromosome 6 (SMC6)

 

1120-1200

Posters/free time
 

1200-1330

Lunch
 
   

1400-1700

SESSION V

 

Recombination and meiosis
(Chairs: Clifford Weil and Zach Cande)

 

1400-1430

Cliff Weil

Forward Foreword: mutations that alter recombination rate and crossover interference in maize

 

1430-1450

Chris West

Arabidopsis NBS1: roles in meiosis and DNA repair

 

1450-1510

Zac Cande

Meiotic prophase chromosome architecture revealed by ultrahigh resolution structured illumination (SI) microscopy

 

1510-1530

Graham Moore
It's not size but coordination that matters

 

1530-1550

Greg Copenhaver

Using Arabidopsis tetrads to understand interference

 
1550-1610 Coffee break  

1610-1630

Chris. Franklin
Co-ordination of meiotic recombination by ASY1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

 

1630-1650

Franck L'Huissier
MLH1 marks a subset of strongly interefering crossovers in tomato

 

1650-1710

Mathilde Grelon
Identification of meiotic DSB forming proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

 

1710-1730

Tom Gerats
Recombination and genetic maps in Petunia

 
     

1700-1930

Free time Posters and wine

 

1930-

Banquet and party

 
 

3 June

 

0700-0800

Breakfast

 

0800-1100

SESSION VI

 

Recombination and related Technologies
(Chairs: Avi Levy and Dan Voytas)

 

0800-0830

Paul Hooykaas

Modulation of the recombination machinery for gene targeting

 

0830-0900

Shigeru Iida

Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination in Rice

 

0900-0930

Daniel Voytas
Gene targeting in plants using zinc finger nucleases

 

0930-0950

coffee break

 

0950-1005

Avraham Levy

Stimulating Gene Targeting into the Arabidopsis genome

 

1005-1020

Paul Bundock

Mutation scanning by massive parallel sequencing

 

1020-1035

Vipula Shukla

Site-directed homologous recombination in tobacco cell cultures via zinc-finger nucleases.

 

1035-1050

Frédéric Van Ex
Development of a gene targeting system based on in planta presentation of homologous donor DNA during meiosis.

 

1050-1105

Frédéric Pâques
Meganucleases with tailored cleavage specificity can induce efficient homologous gene targeting

 

1105-1120

Tzvi Tzfira

Toward zinc finger nucleases-mediated gene targeting in plants

 

1120-1135

Sylvie DeBuck
Generation of Single-Copy DNA Transformants by the Cre/LoxP Recombination Mediated Resolution System

 
   

1135-1200

Closing remarks

 

1200-1330

Lunch

 
 
   
     
     
     


 
 

 

 

 

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