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" Evolution of Epigenetic Regulation "
 
Organizers: Kunio Shiota, Univ. Tokyo
Juerg Mueller, EMBL Heidelberg
Naoto Ueno, NIBB
Venue: Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Date: March 17 (Mon) - 19 (Wed), 2008
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Program
March 17 (Mon)
08:50-09:00 Opening Remarks
09:00-09:40 Allshire, Robin (Welcome trust, U. of Edinburgh)
"RNAi-Directed Heterochromatin and Centromere Function"
09:40-10:20 Nakayama, Jun-ichi (RIKEN, CDB)
"Distinct functions of two HP1 proteins are required for heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast"
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:20 Hirose, Susumu (National Institute of Genetics)
"Three quarter century since the discovery of position effect variegation"
11:20-12:00 Mueller, Juerg (EMBL)
"Transcriptional control by the Polycomb/trithorax system"
12:00-12:40 Akhtar, Asifa (EMBL)
"Co-transcriptional recruitment of the dosage compensation complex to X linked target genes"
12:40-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:00 POSTER SESSION
15:00-16:00 Plenary 1: Reinberg, Danny (HHMI at NYU School of Medicine)
"Chromatin and its impact on gene expression and cellular memory"
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:00 Mueller, Christoph (EMBL)
"Structural insights into chromatin targeting and remodeling"
17:00-17:40 Ladurner, Andreas (EMBL)
"Alternative splicing of histone macroH2A reveals proliferative plasticity and imparts signaling functions to human chromatin"
17:40-18:20 Shinkai, Yoichi (Institute for Virus Res., Kyoto U.)
"Epigenetic Gene Silencing Mechanisms of the G9a/GLP Histone Methyltransferase Complex"
18:20-20:30 Banquet Dinner
March 18 (Tue)
09:00-09:40 Stancheva, Irina (University of Edinburgh)
"Recognition of methylated DNA by MBD family proteins"
09:40-10:20 Shiota, Kunio (University of Tokyo)
"Evolution of Epigenetic Regulation with DNA Methylation System"
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:00 Imamura, Takuya (Kyoto University)
"Functional alteration of rodent brain by noncoding RNA for nuclear sex steroid receptor genes"
11:00-11:20 Hamada, Kyoko (RIKEN, CDB)
"Analysis of sites and functions of mouse HP1a phosphorylation"
11:20-12:00 Matsui, Yasuhisa (Tohoku University)
"Epigenetic regulation of germ cell-specific gene expression"
12:00-12:40 Paszkowski, Jerzy (Universite de Geneva)
"Backup system for epigenetic regulation in vascular plants"
12:40-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:00 POSTER SESSION
15:00-16:00 Plenary 2: Iida, Shigeru (NIBB)
"Epigenetic Gene Regulation in the Japanese Morning Glory and Rice"
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:00 Kakutani, Tetsuji (National Institute of Genetics)
"Genetics of DNA methylation in the BONSAI locus"
17:00-17:40 Mosher, Becky (The Sainsbury Laboratory)
"PolIV-dependent siRNAs in Arabidopsis"
18:00-20:30 Dining out in Heidelberg
March 19 (Wed)
09:00-09:20 Ohgane, Jun (University of Tokyo)
"Locus-dependent DNA methylation changes in Sirt1 deficient mouse ES cells"
09:20-09:40 Tanaka, Satoshi (University of Tokyo)
"Epigenetic change during trophoblast differentiation"
09:40-10:20 Ishino, Fumitoshi (Tokyo Med. & Dent. University)
"Evolution of genomic imprinting and placentation in mammals by retrotransposons"
10:20-11:00 Sasaki, Hiroyuki (National Institute of Genetics)
"Endogenous siRNAs derived from naturally formed dsRNAs regulate coding-transcripts and retrotransposons in mouse oocytes"
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Round table discussion
12:20-12:30 Closing Remarks
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