September 24th 2015
8:15 Registration
8:45 Welcome Note
9:00 Keynote Lecture - Scott Hawley
Vilya, a component of the recombination nodule, is required for meiotic double-strand break formation in Drosophila
Session I: Meiosis & Fertilization
10:00 Bernard de Massy
The programmed induction of DNA double strand breaks during meiosis
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Matthew Neale
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12:00 Patricia Hunt
Environmental effects on mammalian meiosis: A sexually dimorphic tale
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Terry Hassold
Bringing homologs together: Cytological studies of meiotic prophase in human males and females
14:45 Gavin Wright
Sperm meets egg: Using systematic extracellular protein interaction screens to identify receptor-ligand
pairs involved in mammalian gamete recognition
15:30 Coffee Break
Session II Part 1: Chromosome Integrity & Dynamics
16:00 Jason Swedlow
Signalling and mechanics at the human mitotic centromere and kinetochore
16:45 Timothy Mitchison
Division of very large cells
19:00 Speakers Dinner
September 25th 2015
Session II Part 2: Chromosome Integrity & Dynamics
8:45 CANCELLED
9:30 Gaëlle Legube
Functions of chromatin during DNA Double Strand break repair
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Jiři Bartek
Chromosome integrity maintenance and its relevance for cancer development and treatment
11:30 Yousin Suh
Enhancer Mechanisms in Aging and Disease
12:15 Lunch
Session III: Aging & Disease
13:15 Robert Brosh
DNA helicases involved in maintenance of genomic stability and their roles in disease
14:00 Vilhelm Bohr
Genomic instability and mitochondrial defects in human accelerated aging
14:45 Short Break
15:15 Miguel Godinho Ferreira
Premature ageing anticipates cancer in tert-deficient zebrafish
16:00 Jacqueline Jacobs
Mechanisms underlying genome instability caused by DNA repair at mammalian telomeres
16:45 Jan Vijg
Genome instability: a conserved mechanism of aging?
17:30 Farewell Note