1:30 PM Welcome Remarks
1:45 PM Keynote Lecture:
“Life with two X chromosomes”
2:45 PM Coffee and cookies
3:00 PM George Chung (Gunsalus Lab, NYU)
"Eukaryotic genomes shaped by a history of parthenogenesis, telomere dysfunction and chromosome fusions"
title TBD
3:15 PM Yuya Zhao (Ercan Lab, NYU)
"Investigating the effects of RNA Polymerase II on DNA loop extrusion in Caenorhabditis elegans"
title TBD
3:30 PM Liana Goehring (Huang Lab, NYU)
"BRCA2 suppresses head-on transcription-replication conflicts incurred by dormant origin firing"
3:45 PM Isabel Wassing (Funabiki Lab, Rockefeller)
"CDCA7 is an evolutionarily conserved hemimethylated DNA sensor in eukaryotes"
4:00-5:30 PM Poster session and refreshments