Program Schedule

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5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Registration (Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center)

7:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks (Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center)
Joseph Reese, Ph.D. (Penn State)
Song Tan, Ph.D. (Penn State)

7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Keynote Address (Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center)
Robert Roeder, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University)
"Integrated functions of diverse transcriptional coactivators in biochemically-defined systems"

8:15 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
Reception (Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center)

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8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Registration (for those not yet registered)
(Auditorium Lounge , HUB-Robeson Center)

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8:30 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
Brad Cairns, Ph.D. (Huntsman Institute-HHMI)
“Mechanisms of nucleosome remodeling by the chromatin remodeling complex RSC”

9:05 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Craig Peterson, Ph.D. (University of. Massachusetts Medical Center)
“Chromatin remodeling machines”

9:40 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Blaine Bartholomew, Ph.D. ( Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
"Architectures of the SWI/SNF-Nucleosome Complex"

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Frank Pugh, Ph.D. (Penn State)
"Genomic organization of chromatin and the transcription machinery in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Vasily M. Studitsky, Ph.D. (Penn State)
"The nature of the polar nucleosomal barrier to transcription by RNA polymerase II"

11:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Yanming Wang, Ph.D. (Penn State)
"Histone citrullination by peptidylarginine deiminase 4 represses p53-target gene expression"

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

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1:30 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.
Yang Shi, Ph.D. (Harvard)
"Dynamic regulation of histone methylation by demethylases"

2:05 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Jerry Workman, Ph.D. (Stowers Inst)
"Protein complexes that modify chromatin for transcripition"

2:40 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Shelley Berger, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania-Wistar Institute)
"Histone and factor post-translational modifications in transcriptional regulation"

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Afternoon Break

3:45 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Kevin Struhl, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
"Yeast transcriptional regulatory mechanisms"

4:20 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D. (Stowers Inst)
"The role of MLL and ELL in histone methylation and pathogenesis of leukemia"

5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Program Break

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Plenary Address(Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center)
Susan Gasser, Ph.D. (FMI-Basel, Switzerland)
"Subnuclear position and its effects on gene expression: Examples from yeast and worms"

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8:30 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
Sarah Elgin, Ph.D. (Washington University)
"Targeting heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila"

9:05 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Robert Kingston, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital)
"Possible roles in silencing for piRNAs"

9:40 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Shiv Grewal, Ph.D. (NIH)
"Heterochromatin: a versatile platform of the genome"

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Barbara Meyer, Ph.D. (Berkeley)
"Targeting a repression complex to X chromosomes"

11:20 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.
Asifa Akhtar, Ph.D. (EMBL Heidelberg)
"Chromatin regulation by MSL proteins"

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

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5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Program Break

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8:30 a.m. – 9:05 a.m
Oliver Rando, Ph.D. (Harvard)
"Static and dynamic genome-wide views of the primary structure of yeast chromatin"

9:05 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Karolin Luger, Ph.D. (Colorado State University-HHMI)
"Nucleosomes and their chaperones"

9:40 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Tom Mistelli, Ph.D. (NIH)
"Chromatin dynamics during differentiation"

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Steve Henikoff, Ph.D. (Fred Hutchinson CRC)
"Epigenetic patterns generated by histone replacement"

11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Laura Carrel, Ph.D. (Hershey Medical Center, Penn State)
"Testing genomic influences on inactive X chromosome expression"

11:40 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Rolf Sternglanz, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University)
"Yeast Sir3 N-terminus interacts with the nucleosome core"

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

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