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Monday, March 27, 2006
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Chan Shun Auditorium, Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050

9am

Rebecca Heald, Conference Co-Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

1st Session Chair: Kathy Collins, UCB, Dept. of MCB

9:10-9:50am

Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University

How telomeres tame the DNA damage response"

 

9:50-10:30am

James Berger, UC Berkeley

"Structural basis for DNA topology discrimination by bacterial type II topoisomerases"

 

 

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

 

 

2nd Session Chair: David Drubin, UCB, Dept. of MCB, CDB Division Head

 

11:00-11:40am

Arshad Desai, UC San Diego

"Segregating the genome during cell division"

 

11:40-12:20pm

Terry Orr-Weaver, MIT

"Chromosome architectural dynamics in meiosis"

 

 

12:20-1:50pm Lunch Break

 

 

3rd Session Chair: Abby Dernburg, UCB/LBNL, Dept. of MCB

 

1:50-2:30pm

Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School

"RNAi and heterochromatin assembly"

 

2:30-3:10pm

Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

"The beginning of the end of heterochromatic RNA "

 

 

3:10-3:30pm

Coffee break

 

 

4th Session Chair: Barbara Meyer, UCB, Dept. of MCB

 

3:30-4:10pm

Doug Koshland, Carnegie Institute

"Lessons learned from the oxymoron, yeast chromosome structure"

 

4:10-4:55pm

Amanda Fisher, Medical Research Council, Imperial College, London

"Chromatin and cell lineage choice"

 

4:55-5:00pm

Gary Karpen, Conference Co-Chair, UCB/LBNL, Dept. of MCB

Closing Remarks 

 

5:00-5:45pm

Reception in the VLSB courtyard - all are invited (if the weather is poor, the reception will be held in the 1st floor atrium, between the Jepson Herbarium and the Biosciences Library)