final_programme_TRM14

Programme
Saturday 23 August 2014
15:00 - 18:00
ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION
ATC Registration Desk
18:00 - 18:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
ATC Auditorium
18:15 - 19:45
Session 1
Chair: Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
ATC Auditorium
18:15 - 18:45
Epigenome: a manual for genome function and utilisation
Hendrik Stunnenberg
NCMLS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
18:45 - 19:05
Regulation of genomic accessibility
Gerald Crabtree
Stanford University, United States of America
19:05 - 19:25
Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics underlying
quantitative gene reguation
Caroline Dean
John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
19:25 - 19:45
NAP1-Mediated Linker Histone Eviction is a critical step
for decompaction and transcription of higher-order
chromatin
Robert Roeder
The Rockefeller University, United States of America
19:45 - 21:30
DINNER
EMBL Canteen
21:30 - 23:00
WELCOME RECEPTION
ATC Roof Top Lounge
11th EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin
Sunday 24 August 2014
09:00 - 12:40
Session 2
Chair: Cigall Kadoch, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard
Medical School, USA
ATC Auditorium
09:00 - 09:20
Decoding transcriptional regulation in Drosophila
Alexander Stark
IMP, Austria
09:20 - 09:40
Switching genes on and off during hematopoiesis
Douglas Higgs
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
09:40 - 09:55
Three-dimensional properties of enhancer interactions
during embryonic development
Eileen Furlong
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
09:55 - 10:10
Predictive polymer modelling reveals coupled fluctuations
in chromosome conformation and transcription
Luca Giorgetti
Institut Curie, CNRS UMR3215/INSERM U934, Paris, France
10:10 - 10:25
Three dimensional chromatin architecture correlates with
two opposite transcription factors, which contributes to
the cell specificity
Yasuharu Kanki
The University of Tokyo, Japan
10:25 - 10:45
Managing remote (regulatory) relationships: chromosomal
folding versus genomic distances
Francois Spitz
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
10:45 - 11:15
COFFEE BREAK
ATC Foyer
Programme
11:15 - 11:35
Biogenesis and mechanism of action of eRNAs
Ramin Shiekhattar
University of Miami, United States of America
11:35 - 11:50
Essential role of enhancer transcription in H3K4me1/2
deposition at de novo enhancers
Minna Kaikkonen
University of Eastern Finland, A.I.Virtanen Institute, Finland
11:50 - 12:05
A dynamic promoter nucleosome architecture at highly
expressed genes in yeast
David Shore
University of Geneva, Switzerland
12:05 - 12:20
Enhancer malfunction in cancer
Ali Shilatifard
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of
America
12:20 - 12:40
Non-coding transcription at cis-regulatory elements:
evidence for active and domain-wide suppression
Gioacchino Natoli
European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Italy
12:40 - 14:30
LUNCH
EMBL Canteen
14:30 - 17:00
POSTER SESSION 1
ATC Helix A and B
17:00 - 19:20
Session 3
Chair: Ali Shilatifard, Stowers Institute for Medical Research,
United States of America
ATC Auditorium
17:00 - 17:20
Modulating the nucleosome barrier to transcription
Steven Henikoff
F. Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and H. Hughes
Medical Institute, United States of America
11th EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin
17:20 - 17:40
Novel epigenetic signatures of wild type and mutant p53
transcriptional activity
Shelley Berger
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
17:40 - 17:55
Regulatory Architecture of Nucleosome Sliding and
Ejection by Sth1/RSC
Cedric Clapier
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States of America
17:55 - 18:10
Suppression of non-functional RNAs: keeping TBP out of
trouble
Marc Timmers
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
18:10 - 18:25
Regulation of H2A.Z deposition by T108 phosphorylation
Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
18:25 - 18:40
Heterochromatin assembly and dynamics on the single
molecule level
Beat Fierz
EPFL, Switzerland
18:40 - 19:00
The SAGA coactivator complex acts on the whole
transcribed genome and is required for RNA polymerase II
transcription at expressed genes
Laszlo Tora
IGBMC, France
19:00 - 19:20
Genomic and structural basis for regulation of
cardiogenesis by heterotypic transcription factors
Benoit Bruneau
Gladstone Institutes, United States of America
19:20 - 21:30
DINNER
EMBL Canteen
21:30 - 23:00
AFTER-DINNER DRINKS
ATC Roof Top Lounge
Programme
Monday 25 August 2014
09:00 - 12:40
Session 4
Chair: Denis Duboule, EPFL and University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
ATC Auditorium
09:00 - 09:20
Structural basis of transcription initiation and regulation
Patrick Cramer
Gene Center and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Germany
09:20 - 09:40
Structure-function studies of RNA polymerase I and III
transcription
Christoph Müller
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
09:40 - 09:55
Temporal dynamics of enhancer transcription and
promoter activation in cellular state change
Albin Sandelin
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
09:55 - 10:10
Tyrosine phosphorylation of RNA Polymerase II CTD is
associated with antisense promoter transcription and
active enhancers in mammalian cells
Jean-Christophe Andrau
CNRS, France
10:10 - 10:25
The TFIID subunit TAF4 directs pre-initiation complex
formation and HNF4A promoter occupancy to activate
post-natal hepatocyte gene expression
Irwin Davidson
IGBMC, France
10:25 - 10:45
GAGA Factor maintains promoters in nucleosome-free
conformation and allows promoter-proximal pausing
John Lis
Cornell University, United States of America
10:45 - 11:15
COFFEE BREAK
ATC Foyer
11th EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin
11:15 - 11:35
Organisation of chromatin and the transcription machinery
across the yeast genome
Frank Pugh
Penn State University, United States of America
11:35 - 11:50
Reconstitution of transcriptionally active human core
Mediator complex reveals a pivotal role of the MED14
subunit
Murat Cevher
Rockefeller University, United States of America
11:50 - 12:05
Divergent transcription initiates from core promoters at the
edges of open chromatin
Scott Lacadie
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
12:05 - 12:20
Drosophila TRF2 is a preferential core promoter regulator
Tamar Juven-Gershon
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
12:20 - 12:40
Histone variants and their chaperones: helping regulate
gene expression
Geneviève Almouzni
Institut Curie/CNRS, France
12:40 - 14:30
LUNCH
ATC Foyer
14:30 - 17:00
POSTER SESSION 2
ATC Helix A and B
17:00 - 19:20
Session 5
Chair: Marc Timmers, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The
Netherlands
ATC Auditorium
17:00 - 17:20
KRAB’n’KAP: epigenetic control of the genetic self,
sort-of-self and un-self
Didier Trono
EPFL, Switzerland
Programme
17:20 - 17:40
Targeted function of Polycomb-Group complexes
Robert Kingston
Massachusetts General Hospital, United States of America
17:40 - 17:55
The function of histone H2A monoubiquitination in
Polycomb repression
Jürg Müller
Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
17:55 - 18:10
Polycomb-like Proteins in Cell Cycle Control
Adrian Bracken
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
18:10 - 18:25
A role for poised enhancers during Drosophila pattern
formation
Nina Koenecke
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of
America
18:25 - 18:40
Transcriptional activation without chromatin marking in
developmentally regulated genes
Silvia Pérez
Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain
18:40 - 19:00
H3K27 methylation and PRC2 epigenetically transmit a
memory of repression across generations and in
development
Susan Strome
University of California, Santa Cruz, United States of America
19:00 - 19:20
Polycomb Complexes
Danny Reinberg
HHMI at NYU School of Medicine, United States of America
19:20 - 21:30
DINNER
EMBL Canteen
21:30 - 23:00
AFTER-DINNER DRINKS
ATC Roof Top Lounge
11th EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin
Tuesday 26 August 2014
09:00 - 13:00
Session 6
Chair: Geneviève Almouzni, Institut Curie, France
ATC Auditorium
09:00 - 09:20
Transcriptional dynamics in the precellular Drosophila
Embryo
Michael Levine
UC Berkeley, United States of America
09:20 - 09:35
The BAF chromatin remodelling complex is a regulator of
mouse embryo lineage specification
Maryna Panamarova
WT\CR UK Gurdon Institute, United Kingdom
09:35 - 09:50
Polycomb component Cbx4 inhibits the expression of
non-epidermal lineage genes and controls progenitor cells
differentiation in the developing epidermis
Vladimir Botchkarev
University of Bradford, United Kingdom
09:50 - 10:05
Atrx and Daxx promote heterochromatin formation at
retrotransposons in mouse ES cells
Gunnar Schotta
LMU Munich, Germany
10:05 - 10:20
Hi-jacking of regulatory landscapes at Hox gene clusters
Denis Duboule
EPFL and University of Geneva, Switzerland
10:20 - 10:40
Transcriptional regulation of cardiac cell fate
Laurie Boyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of
America
10:40 - 11:10
COFFEE BREAK
ATC Foyer
Programme
11:10 - 11:30
Central and peripheral clocks: the regulation of circadian
gene expression by systemic cues
Ueli Schibler
University of Geneva, Switzerland
11:30 - 11:45
Cell fate specification through chromatin remodelling by
the pioneer transcription factor Pax7
Jacques Drouin
IRCM-MONTREAL, Canada
11:45 - 12:00
Signalling modules in transcriptional super-enhancers
Denes Hnisz
Whitehead Institute, United States of America
12:00 - 12:15
TRIM24 acts as a transcriptional co-activator of the
androgen receptor during prostate cancer progression
Anna Groner
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States of America
12:15 - 12:35
The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes
Henrik Kaessmann
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
12:35 - 14:30
LUNCH
ATC Foyer
14:30 - 17:00
POSTER SESSION 3
ATC Helix A and B
17:00 - 19:00
Session 7
Chair: Michael Levine, UC Berkeley, United States of America
ATC Auditorium
17:00 - 17:20
Transcription and nuclear organisation during early
development: chicken and egg
Wendy Bickmore
MRC Human Genetics Unit, United Kingdom
11th EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin
17:20 - 17:35
Relieving Polycomb-mediated repressive chromatin
facilitates breast tumorigenesis
Raphaël Margueron
Institut Curie/INSERM U934/CNRS UMR3215, France
17:35 - 17:50
ADP-ribosylation of histones: A reversible modification of
specific amino acid residues
Michael Hottiger
University of Zurich, Switzerland
17:50 - 18:05
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in the p53
network
Joaquin Espinosa
HHMI / University of Colorado Boulder, United States of
America
18:05 - 18:20
Dynamic analysis of Polycomb-mSWI/SNF (BAF)
opposition
Cigall Kadoch
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School,
United States of America
18:20 - 18:40
Unveiling Polycomb functions in stem cells and cancer
Luciano Di Croce
Centre for Genomic Regulation/ICREA, Spain
18:40 - 19:00
Novel epigenetic modification pathways
Tony Kouzarides
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
19:00 - 19:15
Closing Remarks
ATC Auditorium
19:30 - 01:00
DINNER AND PARTY
EMBL Canteen and ATC Foyer