Speakers
2024/2025 season
OCTOBER 9TH 2024
Emily Mace ( Columbia University)
Immune cell lineage-specific responses to replication stress informed by primary immunodeficiency
Glennis Logsdon (U Penn)
New insights into the genetic & epigenetic variation of complete human centromeres
King Hei (Teri) Cheng (CSHL)
Transcription-replication conflict resolution by nuclear RNA interference
Ignacio Gutierrez (Weill Cornell)
A mortality timer based on nucleolar size triggers loss of nucleolar integrity and catastrophic genomic instability
Ryan White (Regeneron)
PARP1 loss protects against DNMT3A driven clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminant potential (CHIP)
Agata Smogorzewska (The Rockefeller University)
The role of RTF2 in replication, replication stress response, and checkpoint activation
DECEMBER 4th 2024
Tarun Kapoor, Eric Greene, Xiaoxue (Snow) Zhou, Brit Adamson
FEBRUARY 12th 2025
Jayanta Chaudhuri, Gilad Evrony, Agnel Sfeir, Hee-Won Yang
APRIL 2nd 2025
Shan Zha, Jaewon Min, Karen Schindler, John Maciejowski
June 3rd 2025 (Wednesday)
1:30 PM Welcome Remarks
1:45 PM Keynote lecture: Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal, University of Cambridge
Genomic instability inducing indel signatures: Rationale for classification and clinical applications
2:45 PM coffee break
3:00 PM Matt Johnson
Mechanism of resection at double-strand breaks formed during replication
3:15 PM Gabriella Chua
A non-catalytic role for RFC in PCNA-mediated processive DNA synthesis
3:30 PM George Zakusilo
An essential role for primate Ku in the nucleolus
3:45 PM Victor Leon
Crossover designation recruits condensin to reorganize the meiotic chromosome axis
4:00 PM Cayla Broton
RTF2 localizes CHK1 to the replication fork to control S phase progression
4:15- 6:00 Poster Session and Reception