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Full Cancun Speaker Programme (just released)
Tues 16th Nov
From 12pm
Arrival and registration
From 6pm
Poolside welcome reception (drinks & dinner)
Wed 17th Nov
09:00 - 09:30
David Allis
(Rockefeller University)
Beyond the Double Helix: Writing and Reading the 'Histone Code'
09:30 - 09:45
Bradley Bernstein
(Harvard University)
Genomic maps of histone methylation in mouse and human cells
09:45 - 10:00
Matthew Guenther
(Whitehead Institute)
Dissecting histone methyltransferease usage and function using genome-scale location analysis
10:00 - 10:30
Tony Kouzarides
(Welcome CR:UK, Cambridge)
Chromatin modifications and their functions
Break
11:00 - 11:30
Thomas Jenuwein
(IMP, Campus Vienna Biocenter)
The indexing potential of Histone Lysine Methylation
11:30 - 11:45
Rafael Herrera
(Baylor College of Medicine)
Histone H1 Modifications
11:45 - 12:00
Wang Wooi Koon
(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Crystal structure based analysis of discriminative recognition of methylated K20-H4 peptide by MBT repeats of human L3MBTL
12:00 - 12:30
Danny Reinberg
(UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
Regulation of RNA Polymerase II Transcription by Multiple Histone Modifications
Lunch and free time
16:00 - 16:30
Shelley Berger
(The Wistar Institute)
Histone ubiquitylation and sumoylation in gene regulation
16:30 - 16:45
Patrick Grant
(Uni. of Virginia Medical School)
Regulation of the SAGA and SLIK HAT activity and consequences for neurodegenerative disease
16:45 - 17:00
Bhagwan Aggarwal
(Thomas Jefferson University)
Chromatin regulates the origins of DNA replication
17:00 - 17:30
Ali Shilatifard
(Saint Louis University Cancer Center)
In vivo Studies of the Regulation of Transcription Elongation from Chromatin
Break
18:00 - 21:00
Poster session (2 x 1.5 hour sessions)
Including drinks & dinner
Thurs 18th Nov
09:00 - 09:30
Jane Mellor
(University of Oxford)
Chromatin dynamics controlling transcription elongation
09:30 - 09:45
Veronica Yu
(Scripps Research Institute)
A kinase-independent function of Cks1 and Cdk1 in regulation of transcription
09:45 - 10:00
Edward Seto
(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute)
Regulation of HDAC3 activity by protein phosphatase 4
10:00 - 10:30
Craig Peterson
(University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Distinct roles for chromatin remodeling enzymes in DNA double strand break repair
Break
11:00 - 11:30
Kami Ahmad
(Harvard Medical School)
Transcription and replication-independent deposition of Histone H3.3
11:30 - 11:45
Jessica Williams
(University of Alberta)
Transcriptional regulation of a DNA damage response gene by dynamic targeting of Histone Chaperone Asf1
11:45 - 12:00
Lianna Johnson
(Dept of MCD Biology, UCLA)
Mass spectrometry analysis of Histone H3 modifications in Arabidopsis
12:00 - 12:15
Karl Ekwall
(Karolinska Institute)
Genome wide histone deacetylase functions in fission yeast
12:15 - 12:30
Gregory David
(New York University School of Medicine)
New roles for the mSIN3 corepressor complex beyond transcriptional repression
Lunch and free time
16:00 - 16:30
Jerry Workman
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
Concerted acetylation/exchange by the dTip60 complex clears phosphor-histone H2Av from repaired DNA
16:30 - 17:00
Jacques Cote
(Laval University Cancer Research Center)
Regulation of NuA4 function and activity by Histone Phosphorylation
17:00 - 17:15
Asoke Mal
(Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Research Institute)
Histone methyltransferase Suv39h1 regulates skeletal muscle differentiation
17:15 - 17:30
Avtar Roopra
(University or Wisconsin-Madison)
Redox regulation of chromatin structure: from Otto Warburg to the Atkins diet
Break
18:00 - 18:30
Sharon Dent
(UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)
New functions of Histone modifying activities
18:30 - 18:45
Christian Seiser
(Medical University of Vienna)
All about Histone deacetylase 1
18:45 - 19:15
Ann Dean
(Lab. of Cell. and Dev. Biology, NIDDK, NIH)
Dissecting enhancer function using insulators
19:15 - 19:30
Christina Hughes
(Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
Menin Associates with a Trithorax Family Histone Methytransferase Complex and with the Hoxc8 Locus
Beach Barbecue
Fri 19th Nov
09:00 - 09:30
Rob Martienssen
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epigenetic control
09:30 - 10:00
Peter Jones
(University of Southern California)
DNA Methylation in Cancer
10:00 - 10:15
Manel Esteller
(Spanish National Cancer Centre)
Loss of Monoacetylated and Trimethylated Histone H4 in Cancer Cells
Break
10:45 - 11:00
Victor Lobanenkov
(National Institutes of Health)
(Epi)genetic deregulation of CTCF-containing chromatin by cancer-associated activation of Boris, a germ-cell-specific factor that shares with CTCF the same Zn-fingers
11:00 - 11:15
Roberta Carbone
(European Institute of Oncology)
Histone methylation and establishment of a heterochromatin-like pattern at PML-RAR target genes
11:15 - 11:30
Beth Tamburini
(University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
Histone acetylation and deacetylation during double-strand DNA repair
11:30 - 12:00
Fyodor Urnov
(Sangamo Biosciences, USA)
"Gene Correction" and the Challenge of Chromatin: Use of Designed Zinc Finger Protein-Based Nucleases to Promote Homologous Recombination in Human Cells
Lunch and conference end
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