Takashi Hishida (Osaka univ, Osaka)
“Physical and functional interaction of Mgs1 with PCNA: impact on rad6-dependent DNA damage tolerance”
10:15-10:35
- Coffee Break -
Chair: Benoit Arcangioli
10:35-11:20
Hiroshi Iwasaki (Yokohama City univ, Yokohama)
“In vivo evidence that an S. pombe Swi5/Sfr1 complex is a novel Rad51 mediator”
11:20-12:05
Takehiko Shibata (Riken, Wako)
“Interplay of DNA recombination, repair and replication in yeast mitochondria”
12:05-14:00
-Lunch and Poster at Conference Hall-
Session 2
Chair: Takehiko Kobayashi
14:00-14:45
José Sogo (ETH, Switzerland)
“Repair of distinct replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks at the ribosomal replication fork barrier”
14:45-15:30
Pablo Hernández (CSIC, Spain)
“Cis- and trans-acting factors involved in replication fork blockage at the repeated rRNA genes of fission yeast”
15:30-15:50
- Coffee Break -
Chair: José Sogo
15:50-16:35
Takehiko Kobayashi (NIBB, Okazaki)
“Gene amplification regulated by noncoding transcription.”
16:35-17:20
Hisaji Maki (NAIST, Nara)
“Involvement of rDNA locus in monitoring abnormality in the initiation program of chromosomal DNA replication by DNA damage checkpoint control”
17:20-17:40
- Coffee Break-
Chair: Takehiko Shibata
17:40-18:25
John Tower (Univ Southern California,USA)
“Chromatin regulation of Drosophila chorion gene amplification.”
19:00-
Dinner at DAIKON-YA (Optional)
November, 7th, 2005 (Mon)
Session 3
Chair: Noriaki Shimizu
9:00-9:45
Michelle Debatisse (Institute Curie, France)
“Replication Pattern and Genome Instability in Mammalian Cells.”
9:45-10:30
Hiroki Sasaki (National Cancer Center, Tokyo)
“Functional and Structural Characteristics of Amplicons in Human Cancer”
10:30-10:50
- Coffee Break -
Chair: Michelle Debatisse
10:50-11:35
Noriaki Shimizu (Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima)
“Gene amplification in mammalian cells-its mechanism and the product’s behavior-”
11:35-12:20
Aaron Bensimon (Institute Pasteur, France)
“Human rDNA is a mosaic of canonical and palindromic units”
12:20-13:30
-Lunch and Poster at Conference Hall-
Session 4
Chair: Maki Hisaji
13:30-14:15
David Shore (Univ of Geneva, Switzerland)
“A feedback loop controling rDNA copy number and Sir2 protein levels in yeast”
14:15-15:00
Katsuki Johzuka (NIBB, Okazaki)
“Maintenance of the rDNA repeats by the FOB1 and condensin complex”
15:00-15:20
- Coffee Break -
Chair: David Shore
15:20-16:05
Alexander Strunnikov (NIH, USA)
“Recognition of repeated and unique chromosomal binding sites by condensin: genetic and epigenetic controls”
16:05-16:50
Jorge Schvartzman (CSIC, Spain)
“Identification of Different Forms of Replication Fork Blockage and its Consequences”
16:50-17:10
- Coffee Break -
Chair: Jorge Schvartzman
17:10-17:55
Akihiko Kikuchi (Nagoya Univ., Nagoya)
“Topoisomerases are obligatory for Mitotic Chromosomes?”
18:30-
-Reception at Okazaki New Grand Hotel-
November, 8th, 2005 (Tue)
Session 5
Chair: Kirill Lobachev
9:00-9:45
Austen Ganley (NIBB, Okazaki)
“The role of amplification in concerted evolution: A new model from experimental evolution data in yeast”
9:45-10:05
Takaaki Watanabe (NIBB, Okazaki)
“A novel gene amplification system in yeast”
10:05-10:25
- Coffee Break -
Chair: Akihiko Kikuchi
10:25-11:10
Kirill Lobachev (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
“Double minutes, homogeneously staining regions and unstable mosaic chromosomes result from hairpin-capped double-strand breaks”
11:10-11:30
Takashi Horiuchi (NIBB, Okazaki)
“E. coli cell with a linear genome”