Program

7th Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting 2024

 

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Day 1 – Wednesday, December 4th, 2024

                             
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome Address                                                                  
Session 1: Cell Type Identities
Session Chairs:
Asifa Akhtar & Thomas Jenuwein  
 
13:10 - 13:35 Bing Ren (20 min)
»Epigenetic and 3D genome reprogramming during the aging of human hippocampus«
13:35 - 13:55 Stefan Niekamp (15 min)
»Single-molecule imaging reveals mechanisms of SWI/SNF and PRC1 competition«
13:55 - 14:20 Amanda Fisher (20 min)
»Cell identity and Mitosis«
14:20 - 14:40 Vijay Ramani (15 min)
»Programmed, patterned, and pervasive nucleosomal distortion on mammalian chromatin fibers in vivo «
14:40 - 15:00 Haruhiko Koseki (15 min)
»SKP1A-mediated degradation of PRC2 facilitates activation of Polycomb-silenced genes«
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Session 2: Transcription Regulation
Session Chairs:
Amanda Fisher & Nicola Iovino
 
15:30 - 15:55 Ibrahim Cissé (20 min)                         
»Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells«
15:55 - 16:20 Ramin Shiekhattar (20 min)
»RNA Integrator in cell type specification «
16:20 - 16:40 Yi-Hsuan Lo (15min)        
»Isolated DNA repeat units nucleate heterochromatin through Integrator-coupled transcriptional attenuation«
16:40 - 17:05 Stirling Churchman (20 min)
»RNA polymerases reshape chromatin architecture and couple transcription on individual fibers«
17:05 - 17:30 Asifa Akhtar (20 min)
»Epigenetic regulation by the MSLs: Old complex, new facts«
17:30- 17:55 Ali Shilatifard (20 min)                                                            
»Molecular insight into transcription elongation regulatory mechanisms and epigenetics deliver critical targets for cancer therapeutics«
Conference Dinner 18:00 - 20:00
New Dimensions
Session Chair: Asifa Akhtar
20:00 - 20:25 Marieke Oudelaar (20 min)
»The interplay between nucleosome positioning and higher-order
3D genome folding«
20:25 - 20:50 Rong Fan (20 min)
»Spatial Multi-Omics Mapping of Tissue Development,
Aging and Disease«
21:00 Reception

Day 2 – Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Session 3: Inheritance

Session Chairs:
Shelley Berger & Yang Shi                

09:00 - 09:25 Danny Reinberg (20 min)
»Polycomb, inheritance and disease«
09:25 - 09:50 Dirk Schübeler (20 min)
»A chromatin-dependent motif syntax defines differentiation trajectories«
09:50 - 10:15 Sara Hägg (20 min)
»Longitudinal studies of DNA methylation in human aging«
10:15 - 10:35 Yehudit Bergmann (15 min)
»Epigenetically induced changes in genome function«
10:35 - 10:55 Roberto Bonasio (15 min)
»Epigenetics of brain plasticity and behavioral reprogramming in ants«
10:55 - 11:25 Coffee Break
11:25 - 11:50 Geeta Narlikar (20 min)
»ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin condensates
uncovers new mesoscale effects«
11:50 - 12:10 Philipp Voigt (15 min)
»Nucleosomal asymmetry regulates reader recruitment and
poising at bivalent promoters« 
12:10 - 12:35 Gary Karpen (20 min)
»Heterochromatin condensate formation and compartmentalization
in vivo and in vitro «
12:35 - 13:00 Wendy Bickmore (20 min)
»Enhancer-promoter communication – is close enough, enough?«
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00 Poster session
Session 4: Cancer and Disease
Session Chairs:
Wendy Bickmore & Dirk Schübeler
 
16:00 - 16:25                                                      Shelley Berger (20 min)                                                         
»Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease«          
16:25 - 16:45 Gerda Egger (15 min)
»Identification of a stable and prognostic tumor-specific DNA methylation signature in patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids«
16:45 - 17:05 Abid Khan (15 min)
»A SETD2-CDK1-Lamin axis maintains nuclear integrity and genome stability«
17:05 - 17:30 Feng Yue 20 min)
»Enhancer-hijacking and 3D genome alteration in human cancer«
17:30 - 17:50 Juliane Glaser (15 min)
»Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles causing developmental limb phenotypes«
17:50 - 18:15 Yang Shi (20 min)
»Chromatin regulation and cancer«
18:30 Free evening / Christmas market 🎄 *
20:00 Speaker’s Dinner

Day 3 – Friday, December 6th, 2024

Keynote Lecture
Session Chair: Thomas Jenuwein
09:00 - 09:45 Patrick Cramer
»Transcription of the genome: from molecular mechanism to cellular regulation«                           
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break
Session 5: Genome Organization
Session Chairs:
Geneviève Almouzni &
Giacomo Cavalli
10:15 - 10:40                                             Rob Martienssen (20 min)
Epigenetic states
10:40 - 11:05 Hiten Madhani (20 min)
»Epigenetic memory over geological timescales«
11:05 - 11:25 Mo Motamedi (15 min)
»lncRNA-mediated heterochromatin initiation at centromeres«
11:25 - 11:50 Deborah Bourc’his (20 min)
»Novel actors in chromatin-based control of transposable elements «
11:50 - 12:10 Ayele Denboba (15 min)
»Modelling epigenetic inheritance through gut microbiota-germline interactions«
12:10 - 12:35 Yoichi Shinkai (20 min)
»DNA methylation regulated by the HELLS-CDCA7 chromatin-remodeling complex«
12:35 - 12:45 Poster Prize (Sponsors)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 6: Higher Order Structuring
Session Chair:
Stirling Churchman & Ibrahim Cissé
 
14:00 - 14:25 Katerina Kraft (Howard Chang Lab) (20 min)
»Cancer genes beyond chromosomes«
14:25 - 14:45 Antoine Peters (15 min)
»Preventing CpG hypermethylation in oocytes safeguards mouse development«
14:45 - 15:10 Nicola Iovino (20 min)
»Epigenetic inheritance«
15:10 - 15:35 Giacomo Cavalli (20 min)
»The role of Polycomb proteins and 3D genome architecture in epigenetic inheritance and cancer«
15:35 - 15:55 Jumana Alhaj Abed (15 min)
»Uncovering homologous chromosome communication in somatic cells«
15:55 - 16:25 Coffee Break
16:25 - 16:50 Jamie Hackett (20 min)
»Precision Perturbations to Dissect Epigenome Function«
16:50 - 17:10 Joyce Man (15 min)
»Molecular dissecting the role of Polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2 during initiation of X-chromosome inactivation«
17:10 - 17:30 Valentin Flury (15 min)
»Recycling of parental histones during DNA replication promotes
epigenetic memory«
17:30 - 17:55 Geneviève Almouzni (20 min)
»Histone variants and their partners shaping chromatin and cell fate«
17:55 - 18:20 Carl Wu (20 min)
»The biogenesis and regulatory dynamics of chromatin
opening for transcription«
18:30 Dinner
20:30 Party

Shuttle busses to & from the venue

Shuttle buses will be provided daily for transportation to and from the venue. The buses will depart from and return to the Novotel Hotel, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 2, Freiburg.

Shuttle Bus Schedule

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
»  11:45 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
»  10:00 PM: 1st shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel
»  10:30 PM: 2nd shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel

Thursday, December 5, 2024
»  08:30 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
»  06:15 PM: two shuttles depart from Max Planck Institute to Novotel

Friday, December 6, 2024
»  08:30 AM: shuttle departs from Novotel to the Max Planck Institute
»  09:30 PM: 1st shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel
»  11:30 PM: 2nd shuttle departs from the Max Planck Institute to Novotel

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