1:30 PM            Welcome Remarks

1:45 PM            Keynote Lecture:

Edith Heard, EMBL (https://www.embl.org/groups/heard/)

“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