"Chromatin Structure and Function"

July 30– August 2, 2003

Program Schedule

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Registration (Atrium)
5:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m

Welcoming Remarks (Ballroom A-B-C)
6:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m

Plenary Lecture (Ballroom A-B-C)
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m

Ulrich Laemmli (U Geneva) - Structural and Functional Studies of Chromosomes

Reception (Board Room)
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m

Thursday, July 31, 2003

Registration (Atrium)
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Session I (Ballroom A-B-C)
Structure and Nuclear Organization
8:30 a.m. - Noon

Chair: Nina Fedoroff

Thomas Misteli (NCI NIH) - Chromatin proteins in vivo

Timothy Richmond (ETH Zurich) - Structural studies of chromatin

David Spector (Cold Spring Harbor) - Visualizing the dynamics of gene expression

Sanford Leuba (U Pitt Med School) - Chromatin fibers one at a time

Wendy Bickmore (MRC Edinburgh) - Spatial and dynamic organization of the mammalian nucleus

Industrial Exhibits (Ballroom D-E and Atrium)
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Box Lunch (Ballroom D-E and Atrium)
Noon- 1:30 p.m.

Chair: Laura Carrel (Hershey Medical Center)

Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson CRC) - Nucleosome assembly pathways and the maintenance of chromatin states

Pamela Geyer (U Iowa) - From Gypsy to Genome: A study of endogenous Su(Hw) Binding Sites

Jeannie Lee (Mass General) - Noncoding RNA's and long-range interactions in X-inactivation

Barbara Meyer (Berkeley) - Targeting the dosage compensation complex to X chromosomes in C. elegans

Keynote Address (Ballroom A- B-C)
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

David Allis (Rockefeller) - Phosphorylation of core histones: Novel sites and reagents reveal unexpected links to mitosis, apoptosis, DNA damage and more.

Friday, August 1, 2003

Session III (Ballroom A-B-C)
Histone Modifications
8:30 a.m.-Noon

Chair: Wendy Hanna-Rose

Shelley Berger (Wistar) - Histone covalent modifications in gene regulation

Sharon Dent (MD Anderson) - Functions and regulation of histone modifications

Robin Allshire (U Edinburgh) - Fission yeast centromeres: Silencing and function

Kevin Struhl (Harvard Med School) - Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in yeast

M. Mitchell Smith (U VA Medical School) - Histone variants and gene regulation

Lunch Break
Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Oral Platform Sessions (Ballroom A and C)
(Sessions I and II are concurrent)
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session I, Remodeling and Recruitment (Ballroom A-B-C)
Chair: Robert Simpson

Session II, Genome Dynamics (Ballroom D-E)
Chair: Joe Reese

Poster Presentations & Reception (Ballroom A-B-C)
(Presentations and reception are concurrent)
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 2, 2003

Session IV (Ballroom A-B-C)
Chromatin Remodeling
8:30 a.m. - Noon

Chair: Sergei Grigoryev (Hershey Medical Center)

Tom Owen-Hughes (Dundee) - Mechanisms for ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling

Toshio Tsukiyama (Fred Hutchinson CRC) - Functions of Isw2 chromatin remodeling factors in vivo

John Tamkun (UC Santa Cruz) - Diverse roles for chromatin remodeling factors in transcription and development in Drosophila

Carl Wu (NCI NIH) - ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes

Lunch Break
Noon - 1:30 p.m

Oral Platform Sessions (Assembly Room & Faculty Staff Club))
(Sessions III and IV are concurrent)
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session III, Modifications (Assembly Room)
Chair: Song Tan

Session IV, Chromatin/Transcription (Faculty Staff Club)
Chair: David Gilmour

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