Unless noted otherwise, all presentations and poster sessions will be in Powers Hall. Speakers should load their presentations on conference computers in Powers Hall the day before the session. Breaks between sessions will be held in Alumni Hall or Powers Hall. Lunch is on your own. Dinners are also on your own except as otherwise noted in the program (the reception and banquet). Note that the order of presentations in this program is correct, although it may differ from the order of abstracts.
Please click here for a pdf version of the program:
Monday 22nd June 2009:
Time
Event
Location
12 pm – 8 pm
Sign-in for those that pre-registered
Alumni Hall
Late registration
Alumni Hall
3 pm – 8 pm
Speakers for Tuesday - up-load presentations
Alumni Hall
Tuesday 23rd June 2009:
Time
Event
Location
8 am – 10 am
Sign-in for those that pre-registered
Alumni Hall
Late registration
Alumni Hall
8 am – 9 am
Speakers for Wednesday - up-load presentations
Powers Hall
9 am
Welcome - ICC organizers
Powers Hall
9:15 am
Plenary Lecture 1: Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA "The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis"
Powers Hall
10:15 am
Break
Alumni Hall
10:45 am
Session 1:Chromatin and Chromosome Structure
Powers Hall
Session Leader:Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
10:45 am
Jeff Hayes, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY USA "Intr- and inter-nucleosome interactions of the core histone tail domains"
11:10 am
Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA "Insights into interphase and mitotic large-scale chromatin structure from analysis of engineered chromosome regions"
11:35 am
Kazuhiro Maeshima, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan "Mititic chromosome structure: irregular folding of nucleosome fibers"
12:00
Lunch
2:00 pm
Session 2: Nuclear Architecture
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Ana Pombo, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
2:00 pm
Justin M. O'Sullivan, Institute of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Aukland, New Zealand "Standing at the cross-roads: the global indentification of yeast chromosome interactions using genome conformation capture"
2:25 pm
Ana Pombo, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK "Poised transcription factories prime silent genes prior to activation"
2:50 pm
Miroslav Dundr, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, North Chicago, Illinois "De novo formation of subnuclear bodies on their target genes"
3:15 pm
Karen Meaburn, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA "Breast cancer diagnostics based on interphase spatial genome positioning"
3:40 pm
BREAK
Alumni Hall
4:00 - 6:30 pm
Poster Session 1
Powers Hall
Presenters, please be at your posters during the following times: Posters with odd numbers: 4 - 5:15 pm Posters with even numbers: 5:15 - 6:30 pm
6:30 – 10 pm
BBQ –reception
Lower Lawn and Patio – Broyhill C.C.
Wednesday 24th June 2009:
Time
Event
Location
8:00 – 8:30
Speakers for Thursday up-load presentations
Powers Hall
8:30 am
Session 3: Heterochromatin and repeated sequences Cristine Cardoso
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Paul Fransz, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
8:30 am
Olga Pontes, Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA "Nuclear pathways for small RNAs guiding chromatin modifications in Arabidopsis"
8:55 am
Paul Fransz, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands "Organization and dynamics of repetitive DNA sequences in heterochromatin domains of Arabidopsis under normal and stress conditions"
9:20
Waheeb Heneen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden "The beauty of mitosis: A DVD film"
Session Leader: Jim Birchler, University of Missouri, MO, USA
10:40 am
Jim Birchler, University of Missouri, MO, USA "Studies on the function of the Male Specific Lethal (MSL) complex in Drosphila"
11:00 am
Christine Disteche, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA "Dosage compensation of the active X chromosome in mammals"
11:20 am
Elissa Lei, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA "Differential effects of RNA silencing on the activities of two chromatin insulators"
11:40 am
Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA "Heterochromatin reprogramming by RNAi during cell division and
12:00
Thomas Ream, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA "Subunit compositions of Arabisopsis DNA-dependent RNA polymerases I, II, III, IV, and V reveal insights into polymerase evolution, functional diversification and subunit redundance"
12:20 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Plenary Lecture 2: Jenny Graves, The Australian National University, Australia "Weird animal genomes reveal recent evolution of mammal sex chromosomes and SRY"
Powers Hall
3:00 pm
Break
Alumni Hall
3:30 pm
Session 5: Advances in imaging and molecular technology
Cristina Cardoso, Technische Universitat, Darmstadt, Germany "Chromosome labeling and mobility"
3:50 pm
Job Dekker, University of Mass. Medical School, Worchester, MA USA "Three-dimensional folding of chromosomal domains in relation to gene expression"
4:10 pm
Heinrich Leonhardt, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany "Studying nuclear structure and function with 3D structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM) and fluorescent nanobodies"
4:30 pm
Yaron Shav-Tal, Bar-Ilan University, Israel "The dynamics of single mRNP nuclear transport and export in living cells"
4:50 pm
Elizabeth Schroeder-Reiter,Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany "Frontiers in scanning electron microscopy for investigation of chromosome structure and functional elements"
5:20 pm
International Chromosome and Genome Society (ICGS) meeting: Peter Pearson, Chair
Powers Hall
Dinner
Thursday 25th June 2009:
Time
Event
Location
8:00 – 8:30 am
Speakers for Friday up-load presentations
Powers Hall
8:30 am
Session 6: Centromeres and Neocentromeres
Powers Hall
Session Leader:Andy Choo, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
8:30 am
Andy Choo, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia "Human centromere and neocentromere"
8:55 am
Judith Berman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA "Fungal centromeres and neocentromeres"
9:20 am
Tatsuo Fukagawa, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan "Molecular architecture of the vertebrate constitutive centromere associated network"
9:45 am
Mariano Rocchi, University of Bari, Italy "Centromere evolution"
10:10 am
Break
Alumni Hall
10:40 am
Session 7: Telomeres
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Susan Bailey, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO USA
10:40 am
Alison Bertuch, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA "Ku must load onto telomeric ends to mediate its telomeric function"
11:00 am
Katrin Paeschke, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA "Pif1 p helicase function at G-quadruplexes and its impact in genome integrity"
11:20 am
Xiangyu Song, Texas A&M University, COllege Station, TX, USA "A CST-like complex protects chromosome ends in Arabidopsis"
11:40 am
Shawn Ahmed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA "Analysis of C. elegans end-to-end chromosome fusions"
12:00
Jack Griffith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA "The role of telomere t-loops and t-circles in maintenance of telomeres in normal and ALT cancer cells"
12:20 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Session 8: Specialized Chromosomes
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Andres Houben, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
2:00 pm
Thomas Ebersole, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA "Chromosomal domain assembly, conflict, and resolution in transgenesis"
2:20 pm
Alla Krasikova, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia "Nascent non-coding RNA transcripts on lateral loops of avian lampbrush chromosomes"
2:40 pm
Boris Vyskot, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic "Structural, functional, and evolutionary features of plant sex chromosomes"
3:00 pm
John Lamb, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA "The maize B chromosome: sequence, chromatin, non-disjunction"
3:20 pm
Andreas Houben, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany "Plant B chromosomes - What makes them different?"
3:40 pm
Break
Alumni Hall
4:10 pm
Session 9: Chromosomes in Genome Sequencing and Analysis
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Hans de Jong, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
4:10 pm
Hans de Jong, Wageningen University, The Netherlands "Chromosome painting strategies in support of plant genome sequencing projects: an overview"
4:30 pm
Dan Peterson, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA "DNA reassociation kinetics: Old tricks for new dogs"
4:50 pm
Jaroslav Dolezel, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czech Republic "Flow cytogenetics joins genomics to dissect the complex genomes of cereals"
5:10 pm
Paul Fransz, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Genetics and epigenetic consequences of a paracentric inversion in Arabidopsis thaliana"
5:30 pm
Anton Fedorov, Institute of Cytology RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia "Identification and localization of short tandem repeats in the centromere regions of mouse chromosomes"
5:50 pm
Dinner
Friday 26th June 2009:
Time
Event
Location
8:00 – 8:30
Speakers up-load presentations
Amber Room
8:30 am
Session 10: Meiosis and Recombination
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Stephen Stack, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
8:30 am
Terry Ashley, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA "Magic: Are there lessons for meiosis?"
8:50 am
Alex Bortvin, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD, USA "Small RNAs in mammalian meiosis - more than just the guardians of the genome?"
9:10 am
Paula Cohen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA "Crossover control in the mouse: a complex interplay between MUS81, BLM helicase, and the meiotic mismatch repair machinery"
9:30 am
Greg Copenhaver, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA "Seeing gene conversion in Arabidopsis"
9:50 am
Hong Ma, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA "Genetic and genomic studies of meiosis and meiotic genes in Arabidopsis"
10:10 am
Break
Alumni Hall
10:40 am
Session 11: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Chromosome Abberrations
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Chris Pires, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
10:40 am
Chris Pires, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA "Chromosome rearrangements and aneuploidy in resynthesized allopolyploid Brassica"
11:00 am
Martin Lysak, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic "Polyploidy events and karyotype alterations in the genome evolution of crucifers (Brassicaceae)
11:20 am
Daniela Cimini, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA "Mechanisms of chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy in cancer cells"
11:40 am
Beth Weaver, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA "High rates of aneuploidy cause cell death and tumor suppression"
12:00
Darren Griffin, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK "Novel perspectives on 24 chromosome diagnosis in human preimplantation embryos"
12:20 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Session 12: Chromosome and Genome Evolution
Powers Hall
Session Leader: Birkram Gill, Kansas State University, Manhatten, KS, USA
2:00 pm
Birkram Gill, Kansas State University, Manhatten, KS, USA "Triggers and mechanisms of chromosome evolution: Case histories in wheat"
2:20 pm
Rachel O'Neill, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA "The role of centromere plasticity in chromosome evolution"
2:40 pm
Thomas Peterson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA "How do Ac/Ds transposons rearrange the maize genome?"
3:00 pm
Jerome Salse, UMR INRA-UBP 1095, Clermont-Ferrand, France "Paleogenomics in cereals for trait improvement"
3:20 pm
Ingo Schubert, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany "Interphase nuclear architecture in plants"
3:40 pm
Closing Remarks
Lower level Broyhill Conference Center
4:00 pm
Free Time
Broyhill
7:00 - 10 pm
Banquet
Powers Hall
Saturday 27th June 2009:
Optional Activities: See the Boone page or the Events page for some great travel ideas.
Buses back to Charlotte Airport: See the Travel page for times and price details.
Saturday 27th June & Sunday 28th June 2009:
Buses back to Charlotte Airport: See the Travel page for times and price details.
Lunch: The local"Appalcart"bus service will be available for transportation to restaurant areas for lunch and dinner. See the travelpage for more details concerning bus service within Boone.
