October 7, 2026

1:30 PM         Welcome Remarks

1:40 PM       Molly Przeworski (Columbia University)

Sources of germline mutations in humans

2:10 PM‍ ‍Scott Keeney (MSKCC)

Breaking and making DNA during meiosis

2:40 PM‍ ‍  Angelo Taglialatela (Columbia)

SMARCAL1 is a candidate therapeutic target for ALT-positive tumors

2:55 PM Coffee break

3:15 PM  Georges-Ibrahim Cisse (NYU)

Genome-wide capture and analysis of ssDNA tails at single-molecule resolution

3:30 PM Eli Rothenberg (NYU)

PARP inhibitor cytotoxicity driven by distinct replication fork instabilities.

4:00 PM Dirk Remus (MSKCC)

Discontinuous leading strand synthesis by eukaryotic replisomes at template G-quadruplexes

4:30- 5:30   Reception