8th Course on Epigenetics : March 2012 - Programme Training Unit - International Course - Open conferences (in blue) Wednesday March 14th Chair: Nathalie Dostatni / Geneviève Almouzni Jacqueline Legras/Mélanie Herrbach (Institut Curie, Training Unit, Paris, Welcome, practical aspects & student poster set-up 08:45 Geneviève Almouzni/Nathalie Dostatni Presentation of the module by the organizers & scientific committee 09:00-10:30 Students presentation/ personal work Short presentation of background and research interest (1 mn each) 10:30-11:45 12:00-12:45 Andrew Moore (BioEssays, Weinheim, Germany) Nathalie Dostatni t (UMR 218, Institut Curie/CNRS, Paris, Communicating epigenetics: a view from the Editorial office Position effect variegation in Drosophila : a paradigm for epigenetics Brad Cairns (Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, USA) Chromatin dynamics in the vertebrate germline and early embryo 15:00-15:45 Michiel Vermeulen (Molecular Cancer Research, The Netherlands) Quantitative proteomics for epigenetics 16:00 BREAK "BDD Hall" 16:30-17:30 Tony Kouzarides (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK) Chromatin modifying enzymes in transcription and cancer 17:30-19:30 POSTER SESSION & Workshop on Presentation/communication skills - Animated by Andrew Moore 19:30 Welcome reception, "Chez Marie" or "Green Café" 12, rue Lhomond -
Thursday March 15th Chair: Patricia Le Baccon / Angela Taddei NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION 9:30 - Patricia Le Baccon Microscopy, high-resolution microscopy and epigenetics. Peter Meister (University of Bern, Switzerland) Sequences and Signals for Genome Nuclear Organization in C. elegans 12:30 Edouard Bertrand (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Montpellier, Gene expression viewed from the microscope 15:00-16:00 CURIE MUSEUM: guided tour 16:00-16:45 Angela Taddei Compartmentalisation and dynamics of nuclear functions in budding yeast 17:00 17:30 Session mentored by 17:40-18:05-18:25
Friday March 16th Chair: Manolis Papamichos-Chronakis / Arturo Londono-Vallejo CHROMATIN DYNAMICS 9:30- Geneviève Almouzni Variations on the theme of chromatin assembly 12:30-12:50 Andreas Ladurner (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) Rapid nuclear remodeling and signaling upon DNA damage 15:00 Session mentored by Epigenetics at the tips of mammalian chromosomes At Arturo Londono-Vallejo (UMR 3344, Institut Curie/CNRS, Paris, 15:10-16:00-16:45 Manolis Papamichos-Chronakis Chromatin dynamics in genome stability 17:00-17:20 17:30- Alex Eccleston (Nature, London, UK) Inside Nature: an editor s view of the journal and peer review process 18:15 POSTER SESSION - DRINKS or Epigenetic Imagin(in)g workshop with Paul Harrison
Saturday March 17th BRUNCH DEDICATED TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT - Organized by PhD students/post-docs (UMR 218, Institut Curie/CNRS, Paris) Invited participants: President: Dan Filipescu Members: Salome Adam, Micol Guidi, Tanguy Lucas, Anne Lafon, Elisabetta Serrentino. Alex Eccleston Senior Editor at Nature, London, UK. Michele Garfinkel Science Policy Programme Manager, EMBO, Germany. Laurent Marrot Head of the Biological Research Department, L Oréal, Paris. Cyril Buhler - Project Manager at DNA therapeutics, Paris. Muriel Derrien - Industrial Property Attorneys, Casalonga&Joss, Paris "Chez Marie" room 12, rue Lhomond 75005 - Paris. Sylvain Courbet Teacher at high school, Lycée International de Saint Germain en Laye. Gérald Peyroche - Maître de conférences, ENS Cachan. Leanne De-Koning, Head of the Technological Platform of Reverse Phase Protein Array at Institut Curie
Monday March 19th Chair: Edith Heard / Raphaël Margueron EPIGENETIC PROCESSES & TRANSCRIPTIONAL LANDSCAPE 09:30- Edith Heard (CNRS/UMR 3215 / Inserm U934, Institut Curie, Paris, Chromosome structure, nuclear dynamics and epigenetics: lessons from X-chromosome inactivation 12:30-12:50 Caroline Dean (John Innes Center, Norwich, UK) Dissection of cold-induced epigenetic silencing Antonin Morillon (UMR 3344, Institut Curie/CNRS, Paris, How non-coding (nc)rnas link to histone modifications in budding yeast Curie 15:00-15:45 16:00 Raphaël Margueron (CNRS/UMR 3215 / Inserm U934, Institut Curie, Paris, BREAK "BDD Hall" Mechanisms of repression by Polycomb Proteins 16:30 Session mentored by 16:40-17:00 17:00-17:20 17:30- Dörthe Nickel (EpiGeneSys) Scientific Funding - Confirmed POSTER SESSION - DRINKS or Epigenetic Imagin(in)g workshop with Paul Harrison
Tuesday March 20th Chair: Deborah Bourc'his / Valérie Borde SILENCING & MAINTENANCE OF GENOME INTEGRITY 09:30- Deborah Bourc'his (CNRS/UMR 3215 / Inserm U934, Institut Curie, Paris, Epigenetic cooperation against transposons in the mammalian germline Marc Bühler (FMI, Basel, Switzerland) Co-transcriptional gene silencing 12:30-12:50 Philippe Pasero (Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, Epigenetic mechanisms controlling DNA replication and genome integrit 15:00 Session mentored by 15:10-16:00-16:45 Valérie Borde (UMR 218, Institut Curie/CNRS Paris, Chromatin dynamics before and after double-strand break formation in meiosis 17:00-17:20 17:30 Lucie Sengmanivong OPTIONAL : Visit of Nikon Imaging Center - Confirmed 19:30 Farewell Cocktail & Buffet Dinner "Chez Marie" 12, rue Lhomond -
Wednesday March 21st Chair: Geneviève Almouzni / Sophie Polo 09:30 DEBRIEFING OF THE COURSE 10:00-10:45 Stephan Beck (University College, London, UK) The new kid on the block for epigenome-wide association studies - 12:00 Rob Martienssen 12:00 (CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, USA) 12:00 Fission Yeast Heterochromatin 11-13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 - Paris 13:30 Amanda Fisher (Imperial College, London, UK) Confirmed 14:30 Farewell and departure