Programme 6th Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting 2020

11:00-13:00 

REGISTRATION

13:00-13:10

WELCOME ADDRESS 

13:15-13:40 

TONY KOUZARIDES (20 MIN)
Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer 

13:40-14:05 

SAMIE JAFFREY (20 MIN)
Encoding the fate and function of mRNA with reversible epitranscriptomic modifications at internal sites and in mRNA caps 

14:05-14:30

MARC BÜHLER (20 MIN)
Mechanistic insights into ChAHP complex function

ANNA MATTOUT (15 MIN) 
LSM2-8 and XRN-2 selectively silence H3K27me3-marked genes in C. elegans by RNA decay 

14:50-15:15 

RAMIN SHIEKHATTAR (20 MIN)
Integrator is a downstream effector of RAS signaling

15:15-15:45

COFFEE BREAK 

15:45-16:10

PATRICK CRAMER (20 MIN)
Towards the mechanisms of chromatin transcription

16:10-16:30

FERNANDO APRILE-GARCIA (15 MIN)
Ribosome Quality Control complex is required for stress-induced transcriptional downregulation

16:30-16:55

ALBERTO KORNBLIHTT (20 MIN)
A role for chromatin in the alternative splicing-based therapy of spinal muscular atrophy

16:55-17:15

MICHAEL HOTTIGER (15 MIN)
Functional analysis of chromatin ADP-ribosylation

17:15-17:40

STIRLING CHURCHMAN (20 MIN)
Long-read NET-seq reveals the kinetics and order of metazoan co-transcriptional splicing

17:45-19:45

DINNER

20:00-20:50

KEYNOTE LECTURE

ANTHONY HYMAN
Biomolecular condensates and their implications
for physiology and disease

Chair: Asifa Akhtar

21:00

RECEPTION

09:00-09:25

ALEXANDER MEISSNER (20 MIN)
DNA methylation and cancer

09:25-09:45

GUSTAVO ANTONIO-URRUTIA (15 MIN) 
A SUMOylation-induced SATB1/SATB2 switch drives embryonic stem cell differentiation regulation of early development

09:45-10:10

ASIFA AKHTAR (20 MIN)
Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation

10:10-10:35

ANNE FERGUSON-SMITH (20 MIN)
Variable silencing of the repeat genome – implications for non-genetic inheritance

10:35-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:25

SHIV GREWAL (20 MIN)
Heterochromatin inheritance and epigenetic control of the genome

11:25-11:45

KAUSHIK RAGUNATHAN (15 MIN)
Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance

11:45-12:10

AMANDA FISCHER (20 MIN)
Epigenetics and inheritance

12:10-12:30

NICOLA IOVINO (15 MIN)
Establishment of the zygotic epigenome in Drosophila

12:30-12:55

JÜRG MÜLLER (20 MIN)
Molecular basis of chromatin binding and modification by histone lysine methyltransferases

13:00-14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:00-16:00

POSTER SESSION

16:00-16:20

LUIGIA PACE (15 MIN)
Heterochromatin silencing of stemness during CD8+ T cell fate commitment

16:20-16:40

RENATO PARO (15 MIN)  
An intrinsic tumor eviction mechanism in Drosophila

16:40-17:05

CHRISTOF NIEHRS (20 MIN)
DNA demethylation and aging

17:05-17:30

COFFEE BREAK

17:30-17:55

EDITH HEARD (20 MIN)
Exploring the dynamic relationship between gene expression and chromosome organization during X-chromosome inactivation

17:55-18:15

TOSHIKAZU USHIJIMA (15 MIN)
Induction mechanisms of aberrant DNA Methylation by a vicious combination of inflammation-related genes

18:15-18:35

ADAM KAROUTAS (15 MIN)
The role of MOF dependent acetylation in the maintenance of nuclear architecture and genomic stability

19:00

FREE EVENING/CHRISTMAS MARKET

20:30

SPEAKER'S DINNER

09:00-09:25

ROBERT ROEDER (20 MIN)
Gene-specific H1 eviction through a transcriptional activator-p300-NAP1-H1 pathway

09:25-09:50

GIACOMO CAVALLI (20 MIN)
Polycomb proteins and 3D genome folding in gene regulation and cancer

09:50-10:10

GUNTER REUTER (15 MIN)
The Su(var) gene complement and novel chromatin functions in Drosophila

ANNA FORTUNY GONZÁLEZ (15 MIN)
Maintenance of pericentric heterochromatin following UV damage

10:30-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:10

POSTER PRIZE

11:10-11:35

MARC TIMMERS (20 MIN)
The TRiC/CCT chaperonin complex acts as a checkpoint in assembly of the basal transcription factor TFIID

11:35-11:55

PABLO NAVARRO (15 MIN)
Mitotic bookmarking by transcription factors, chromatin accessibility, and the maintenance of ordered nucleosomal arrays

11:55-12:15

MAXIM GREENBERG (15 MIN)
Dynamic enhancer partitioning instructs gene activation during epigenetic reprogramming

12:15-12:40

DANNY REINBERG (20 MIN)
Epigenetics: one genome, multiple phenotypes

12:40-13:00

THOMAS MONTAVON (15 MIN)
Breaking mouse heterochromatin organization by compound deletion of H3K9 KMT enzymes

13:00-14:30

LUNCH BREAK

14:30-14:55

GEETA NARLIKAR (20 MIN)
Understanding the biophysical basis for phase-separation by heterochromatin

14:55-15:20

GARY KARPEN (20 MIN)
Is Chromatin Just a Phase?

15:20-15:40

UWE SCHAEFER (15 MIN)
Control of heterochromatin by JC virus epigenetic mimics

STEVE JACOBSEN (15 MIN)
DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

16:05-16:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:30-16:55

ELISABETH BINDER (20 MIN)
Epigenetic embedding of early life adversity

16:55-17:15

FLORENCE CAMMAS (15 MIN)
Loss of HP1 within hepatocytes leads to specific Endogenous Retrovirus reactivation and liver tumor development

17:15-17:35

RAFFAELLA SANTORO (15 MIN)
NoRC complex regulates genome architecture of ground state pluripotent stem cells

17:35-18:00

WENDY BICKMORE (20 MIN)
Nuclear pore density controls heterochromatin reorganization during senescence

18:30

DINNER

20:30

PARTY