Program

6th Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting 2022

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ABSTRACT PORTAL
 

Day 1 – Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

                            
11:30 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome Address                
 
Session 1: Cell Type Identities
Session Chair: Asifa Akhtar & Thomas Jenuwein      
13:15 - 13:40 Ali Shilatifard (20 min)
Principles of epigenetics and chromatin in development and human disease
13:40 - 14:05 Bing Ren (20 min)
Illuminating the dark matter in human DNA with single-cell epigenomics analysis
14:05 - 14:25 Simon Elsässer (15 min)
Polycomb repressive complex 2 shields naïve human pluripotent cells from trophectoderm differentiation
14:25 - 14:45 Sebastian Arnold (15 min)
Global remodeling of enhancer landscapes for all mesoderm and endoderm lineages is initiated by site-specific BAF recruitment through Tbx factor EOMES
14:45 - 15:10 Wolf Reik (20 min)
Single cell multi-omics landscape of development and ageing
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
 
Session 2: Transcription Regulation
Session Chair: Amanda Fischer & Nicola Iovino         
15:45 - 16:10 Ibrahim Cissé (20 min)
Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells
16:10 - 16:30 Philippe Batut (15 min)
Genome organization & noncoding transcription control timing of Hox gene expression during development
16:30 - 16:55 Ana Pombo (20 min)
Specialization of 3D genome structure in different cell types and cell states
16:55 - 17:15 Valérie Hilgers (15 min)
Sites of transcription initiation drive mRNA isoform selection
17:15 - 17:40 Nick Proudfoot (20 min)
Defining transcription units across the human genome by nascent transcriptional analysis
17:45 - 19:45 Dinner
 
Keynote Lecture
Session Chair: Asifa Akhtar                    
20:00 - 20:50 Nicole Dubilier
Eating your microbiome: nutritional symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and marine invertrebrates
21:00                                                                                          Reception

Day 2 – Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Session 3: Inheritance
Session Chair: Ana Pombo & Dirk Schübeler                
09:00 - 09:25 Asifa Akhtar (20 min)
Epigenetic regulation by the MSLs: old complex, new facts
09:25 - 09:50 Anne Ferguson-Smith (20 min)
Mammalian epigenetic inheritance at metastable epialleles – agouti viable yellow revisited
09:50 - 10:10 Andrew Dimond (15 min)
Investigating the retention and dissociation of chromatin factors and transcriptional regulators in mitosis
10:10 - 10:35 Geeta Narlikar (20 min)
Mechanism of the INO80 ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 Germano Cecere (15 min)
Soma-to-germline small RNA transfer promotes intragenerational survival to environmental stress
11:20 - 11:45 Amanda Fisher (20 min)
Epigenetic inheritance and mitosis
11:45 - 12:05 Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid (15 Min)
Multilayer-omics analysis reveals a non-classical retinoic acid signaling axis that regulates hematopoietic stem cell identity
12:05 - 12:30 Dónal O’Carroll (20 min)
piRNA-directed DNA methylation during mammalian germline development
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00 Poster session
 
Session 4: Cancer and Disease
Sesson Chair: Geeta Narlikar & Dónal O’Carroll            
16:00 - 16:25 Yang Shi (20 min)
Regulation of the dsRNA-IFN pathway and discovery of new cancer cell vulnerability genes – an update
16:25 - 16:45 Luigia Pace (15 min)
Epigenetic and transcriptional control during CD8 + T cell fate commitment
16:45 - 17:05 Efrat Shema (15 min)
Single-molecule and single-cell epigenetics: decoding the epigenome for cancer research and diagnostics
17:05 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 17:55 Cigall Kadoch (20 min)
Structure and function of mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes in health and disease
17:55 - 18:15 Wendy Liu (15 min)
Biophysical regulation of macrophage epigenetics in wound healing and disease
18:15 - 18:40 Andrew Pospisilik (20 min)
Control and consequences of intrinsic epigenetic variation
19:00 Free evening / Christmas market 🎄
20:30 Speaker’s Dinner

Day 3 – Friday, December 2nd, 2022

Session 5: Genome Organization
Session Chair: Cigall Kadoch & Andrew Pospisilik     
09:00 - 09:25 Rob Martienssen (20 min)
Chromatin remodeling of histone H3 variants underlies epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation
09:25 - 09:50 Andreas Houben (20 min)
Plasticity in centromere organization – a holocentromere can consist of only a few centromere units
09:50 - 10:10 Derek Atkinson (15 min) Jenuwein Lab
The identification of the transcriptional coactivator JASPer as a novel Su(var) factor in Drosophila
10:10 - 10:30 Susan Mango (15 min)
Dynamic chromatin during C. elegans embryogenesis
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:10 Poster prize sponsored by MEDEP
11:10 - 11:35 Bas van Steensel (20 min)
Using random scrambling to decode sequence determinants of nuclear organization
11:35 - 11:55 Peter Meister (15 min)
Holocentric genome folding by condensin I
11:55 - 12:20 Dirk Schübeler (20 min)
Beyond motif: guiding sites of transcription factor binding by DNA modification
12:20 - 12:40 Federica Richina (15 min)
DNA methylation turnover in stem cell potency state transitions – a role for Tdg and Smchd1
12:40 - 13:05 Roberto Bonasio (20 min)
Socially induced brain plasticity and behavioral reprogramming in ants
13:05 - 14:30 Lunch break
 
Session 6: Higher Order Structuring
Session Chair: A. Ferguson-Smith & Ibrahim Cissé   
14:30 - 14:55 Jeannie Lee (20 min)
Epigenetic regulation by RNA G-quadruplexes
14:55 - 15:15 Raffaella Santoro (15 min)  
The nucleolus in genome organization and function
15:15 - 15:40 Nicola Iovino (20 min)
Epigenetics of early development
15:40 - 16:05 Claire Rougeulle (20 min)
X chromosome inactivation in primates
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 16:55 Karim-Jean Armache (20 min)
Catalytic and noncatalytic mechanisms of chromatin modifiers
16:55 - 17:15 Lisa Baumgartner (15 min)
The Drosophila ZAD zinc finger protein Kipferl guides Rhino to piRNA clusters
17:15 - 17:35 Claudia Keller Valsecchi (15 min)
Biology of gene dosage in evolution & disease
17:35 - 18:00 Shraga Schwartz (20 min)
Cracking the m6A code
18:00 - 18:25 Clodagh O’Shea (20 min)
Cracking the Nuclear Codes: Finding Order in Chaos
18:30 Dinner
20:30 Conference Party

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