Programme

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21st September
	Arrival, Registration at the hotels from 6 pm till 9 pm - Free evening
22nd September
8:00 – 9:00	Registration and Poster display
9:00-9:45	Keynote Lecture: “Initiation of epigenetic reprogramming in the germ line.” Azim Surani – Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, U.K.
	Session 1: Comparative studies of imprinting and dosage compensation
9:45-10:15	Neil Brockdorff - University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. “X inactivation in mice”
10:15-10:45	Christine Disteche - University of Washington, Washington USA “Dosage compensation in mammals”
10:45-11:45	Coffee break and Posters
1145-12:15	Sunil Jayaramaiah Raja- EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany “Dosage compensation in Drosophila”
12:15-12:45	Clara Goday – CSIC, Madrid, Spain “Imprinting and chromosome elimination in sciarid flies.”
1245-14:45	Lunch and Posters (Poster session 1)
14:45-15:15	William G. Kelly – Emory University, Atlanta, USA “Epigenetic Regulation of the X Chromosome in C. elegans.”
15:15-15:30	Siew-Loon Ooi - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle, U.S.A. "Histone variant dynamics and the germ cell epigenome"
15:30 - 15:45	Arp Schnittger - IBMP, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
15:45-16:15	Frédéric Berger – Temasek LifeScience Laboratory, Singapore “Dosage compensation and imprinting in plants.”
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
	Session 2: Gametogenesis and Imprinting
16:45-17:15	Benjamin Loppin – IGM, CNRS, Lyon, France “Replacement of chromosomal proteins during Drosophila spermiogenesis, fertilization and early development”.
17:15-17:45	Hugh Dickinson – Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. “Mechanisms regulating parent-of-origin specific gene expression in the maize endosperm”.
17:45-18:15	Tetsu Kinoshita – National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan “Epigenetic changes, which precede imprinting in Arabidopsis.”
18:15 - 18:30	Déborah Bourc’his – Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France “Epigenetic cooperation in DNA methylation in the mammalian germ line “
18:30-19:15	Robert Feil – CNRS Montpellier France “Histone methylation in genomic imprinting in the mouse”.
	Dinner and Poster Session
23rd September
9:00-9:45	“Keynote Lecture: "Histone variant dynamics and gene activation” Steve Henikoff - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle, U.S.A.
	Session 2: Gametogenesis and Imprinting (continued)
9:45-10:15	Wolf Reik – The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, U.K. “The origin of imprinting in mammals.”
10:15-10:45	Hiroyuki Sasaki – National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan “Gametogenesis and imprinting in mice.”
10:45-11:15	Coffee break and Posters
	Session 3 Physiological regulation of imprinting in plants and mammals
11:15-11:45	Bob Fischer – University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. “Control of imprinting in Arabidopsis seed development.”
11:45 12:00	José Gutierrez-Marcos– University of Warwick “Nutrient allocation in the plant endosperm is regulated by a group of imprinted genes”
12:00 - 12:30	Claudia Köhler – ETH, Zurich, Switzerland "Imprinting control at the PHERES1 locus in Arabidopsis.”
12:30 - 12:45	Amanda Fortier – MacGill University, Montreal, Canada ”The effect of superovulation on expression of imprinted genes and fetal weights at mid- to late-gestation in the mouse”
12:45 -13:15	Denise Barlow - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria “The role of ncRNAs in regulating imprinted gene clusters in mice and humans”
13:15 - 16:00	Lunch and Poster Session
16:00-16:30	Ruth Shemer – The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel “Control of imprinting in the PWS/AS domain.”
16:30-17:00	Jo Peters - MRC, Harwell, U.K. “Control of imprinting at the Gnas locus”.
17:00-17:15	Hitomi Matsuzaki – University of Tsukuba, Tsukuga, Japan “Acquisition of parent-of-origin-specific methylation in the transgenic mouse carrying 2.9-kbp H19 ICR DNA fragment
17:15 –17:45	Marisa Bartolomei - University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, U.S.A.“Epigenetic regulation of the H19/IGF2 loci.”
	Poster session and Conference Dinner
24th September
7:00-9:30	Breakfast in the Jungle
	Session 4 Biological functions of imprinted genes
10:00-10:30	Sébastien Smallwood – The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, U.K.“Imprinted genes and the regulation of metabolism in mice.”
10:30-11:00	Lawrence Wilkinson – Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K. “Imprints on the brain; neurodevelopment and function.”
11:15-11:15	Michael Cowley – University of Bath, Bath U.K. ”Milking Grb10 for novel roles”
11:15 - 11:30	Tomas Babak – Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seatlle, USA “Using whole transcriptome sequencing to map imprinted transcription from the mouse embryo”
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-12:30	Anne Ferguson-Smith – University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. “Function and regulation of imprinting at the DLK-DIO3 domain in mice.”
12:30-13:00	Fumitoshi Ishino- Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan “Role of imprinted genes in placental development in humans and mice.”
13:00-13:30	Gudrun Moore –Institute of Child Health, London, U.K. “Conservation of imprinted genes in the human placenta.”
13:30-14:30	Lunch
	Session 5: Evolution of imprinting mechanisms
14:30-15:00	Paul Vrana University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. “Genetic Variation and Epigenetics: effects on development and reproductive Isolation.”
15:00-15:30	Luca Comai – University of California, Davis, U.S.A. “Role of imprinting in speciation in Arabidopsis relatives.”
15:30-15:45	Radhika Das – Duke University, Durham, USA “Phylogenetic analysis of genomic imprinting in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals incomplete conservation of Eutherian imprint regulatory features “
15:45-16:00	Tasman Daish – University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia ” Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in monotremes “
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00	Rebecca Oakey – King’s College, London, U.K. “Transposons and the evolution of imprinting.”
17:00-17:30	Phil Avner – Pasteur Institute, Paris, France “The X-inactivation centre: diversity and evolution.”
17:30-18:00	Marylin Renfree - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia “Evolution of imprinting in Marsupials.”
	General discussion and Dinner
	Departure

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