Winter School 2011
Program of the 2011 IRTG Winter School
1st Winter School of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR81
“Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies” Marburg-Giessen-Bad Nauheim-Rotterdam
at the Kleinwalsertal, February 19-24, 2011
Saturday 19.2.2011
18:30 Dinner
Sunday 20.2.2011
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair: Sjaak Philipsen
Welcome at the seminar room
- Till Adhikary (Müller) Different Modes of Transcriptional Regulation by PPAR-beta/delta
- Erik Engelen (Poot) Investigating SOX2 function in mouse neural development
- Christina Wink (Suske) SUMOylation of the histone binding protein L3MBTL2
- Maaike Moen (Poot) Transcription factor networks in neural stem cells
- Verawan Boonsanay (Braun/Zhou) Identification of epigenetic modifiers involved in muscle stem cell differentiation
12:00-17:00 Open Discussions
17:30-18:15 Dinner
EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair: Uta-Maria Bauer
- Sahar Esteghamat (Philipsen) The DNA binding factor Hmg20b is a repressor of erythroid differentiation
- Katharina Schlereth (Stiewe) ChIPseq analysis of the oncogenic transcription factor ∆Np73
- Anna-Maria Maas (Stiewe) •Np73: Regulation of replication & mechanisms of gene silencing
- Judith Bergs (Brehm) Characterization of CHD5
- Federica Federici (Baarends) Canine meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in combination with complete heterologous synapsis
- Luca Caputo (Dobreva) The role of the Isl1-Ldb1 transcriptional complex
Monday 21.2.2011
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair: Kerstin Wendt
- Widia Soochit (Galjart/Sleutels) The CTCF-family and relations
- Philipp Bergmaier (Renkawitz) BORIS/CTCFL interferes with gene expression
- Pavlos Fanis (Philipsen) Functional characterization of the novel chromatin factor Friend of Prmt1
- Stefanie Riedl (Bauer) Novel interaction partners of the arginine methyltransferase PRMT6
- René Reiner Nötzold (Bauer) Novel targets of arginine methyltransferase PRMT6
12:00-17:00 Open Discussions
17:30-18:15 Dinner
EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair: Gergana Dobreva
- Christina Rathke (Renkawitz-Pohl) The bromodomain protein tBRD-1 is essential for male fertility
- Cheryl Maduro (Gribnau) Activation of X-Chromosome inactivation
- Selma van Staveren (Gribnau) Regulation of Rnf12, an X encoded dose-dependent activator of X Chromosome Inactivation
- Melanie Buxa (Renkawitz) Uni-and three-dimensional analyses of regulatory factors
- Dorte Bohla (Renkawitz) RNAi screening for insulator (co)-factors
- Andreas Lee-Hold (Bartkuhn) Computational analysis of higher-order chromatin structure by combined Hi-C/ChIPseq
Tuesday 22.2.2011
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair: Willy Baarends
- Yuri Mochkine (Verrijzer/vdKnaap) Histone chaperone NAP1 is required for sister chromatid resolution
- Daphne Pontier (Gribnau) Xist regulation during X-chromosome inactivation
- Fabrizia Carofiglio (Baarends) Stimulation of chromosome pairing by irradiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in meiotic prophase cells of SPO11-deficient mice
- Sophie Kaiser (Renkawitz-Pohl) The induction and repair of DNA-strand breaks during sperm chromatin remodelling in Drosophila
- Lalini Raghoebir (Rottier) Ectopic expression of Sox2 affects the developmental fate of intestinal epithelium
- Evgeniy Chichelnitskiy (Dobreva) Epigenetic gene regulation in cardiac development
12:00-17:00 Open Discussions
17:30-18:15 Dinner
EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair: Guntram Suske
- Bert-Jaap van Belle (Houtsmuller) Stepwise dose response of damage sensor XPC in nucleotide excision repair
- Tanja Haag (Dammann) Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressor genes
- Divine Kulu (Philipsen) Functional analysis of SP transcription factors in hematopoiesis
- Florian Finkernagel (Müller) Genome wide profiling of PPAR-beta/delta and RXR binding using ChIPseq
afterwards: PI meeting
Wednesday 23.2.2011
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair: Rainer Renkawitz
- Jessica Zuin (Wendt) Function and molecular mechanism of cohesin-mediated chromatin looping
- Inna Grishina (Schmitz) Mechanisms of gene repression by HIPK2
- Friedemann Loos (Gribnau) Making sense out of anti-sense
- Stefanie Gärtner (Renkawitz-Pohl) Chromatin reorganization in Drosophila spermiogenesis – from histones to histone degradation
- Eskeatnaf Mulugeta Achame (Gribnau) Sequencing the Ellobius genome
12:00-16:00 Open Discussions
16:00-17:30 Workshops on Perspectives
17:30-18:30 Dinner
19:00-20:00 Torch-light procession
20:00-late Farewell party
Thursday 24.2.2011
08:00-10:00 Breakfast and departure
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