| March 31, 2006 | |
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| 15:00-18:00 | Registration |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00-20:30 | Preparation of audio visual. The following equipment will be provided in all sessions: an LCD projector, laser pointer and a microphone. Speakers should load their talks at Fred Farr Forum in the evening preceding the presentations. There will be a limited time for last-minute testing (30 min. before the morning session and during breaks). Equipment for 35 mm slides and overhead projector WILL NOT be provided at this meeting |
| April 1, 2006 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00-9:30 | Jerzy Jurka - Introduction to the conference and workshop |
| 9:30-10:00 | John Moran - Template-specific reverse transcriptase activity in LINE-1 RNPs |
| 10:00-10:30 | Prescott Deininger - Does L1 survive despite, or because of, its incompetence? |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee-break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Anthony Furano - The interaction between L1 retrotransposons and their mammalian hosts |
| 11:30-12:00 | Holly Wichman - LINE-1 activity and extinction in mammals |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Haig Kazazian Jr. - Extensive individual variation in L1 retrotransposition capability contributes to human genetic diversity |
| 14:00-14:30 | Mark Batzer - Mobile elements and primate genomic variation |
| 14:30-15:00 | Juergen Brosius - Mistaken identity - how repetitive elements only indirectly related to retroposons move around the genome |
| 15:00-15:30 | Norihiro Okada - Functional non-coding sequences derived from SINEs in the human genomes |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Carol Rubin - Alu repeats: From junk to function |
| 16:30-17:00 | Nicolai Tomilin - The role of retrotransposons in the maintenance of heterochromatin |
| 17:00-17:30 | Carl Schmid - Functional implications of SINE expression |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00-19:30 | Andrew Gentles - Computational reconstruction of transposable elements |
| 19:30-20:00 | Gabor Toth - Methods for de novo identification of repetitive sequences in newly sequenced genomes |
| 20:00-20:30 | Arian Smit - RepeatMasker, FEAST and other tools for analyzing and exploiting repetitive DNA |
| 20:30-23:00 | Happy Hours |
| April 2, 2006 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 | Irina Arkhipova - Transposons, telomeres and rotifers |
| 9:30-10:00 | Gill Bejerano - Origins of ultraconservation and distal cis-regulation in vertebrates |
| 10:00-10:30 | Sandy Martin - Single Amino Acid Substitutions in L1 ORF1p with Dramatic Effects on Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity and L1 Retrotransposition |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee-break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Daniel Voytas - Retrotransposon target specificity and genome organization |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jiri Hejnar - Human syncytins - an extreme example of transposable element domestication |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Dusan Kordis - Enormous impact of retroelements on the genome structure and evolution in land vertebrates |
| 14:00-14:30 | Dixie Mager - Effects of LTR elements on mammalian genes |
| 14:30-15:00 | Alan Schulman - Parasites and parasites of parasites: Plant retrotransposons and their genomic impact |
| 15:00-15:30 | John McDonald - The contribution of LTR retrotransposons to gene evolution: a tale of three genomes. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Horacio Naveira - Contrasting patterns of sequence turnover of LTR retrotransposons in different eukaryotes |
| 16:30-17:00 | Marie-Anne Van Sluys - A genomic approach to depict transcriptionally active transposable elements in sugarcane |
| 17:00-17:30 | Adam Pavlicek - Retroposition of processed pseudogenes: the impact of RNA stability and translational control |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00-19:30 | Wojtek Makalowski - Validation of diverged repetitive elements using phylogenetic analysis and comparative genomics approach |
| 19:30-20:00 | Peter Warburton - Analysis of the relative chronological age of human transposable elements by defragmentation and insertional analysis |
| 20:00-20:15 | Vini Pereira - Automated palaeontology of repetitive DNA with REannotate |
| 20:15-20:30 | Degui Zhi - Comparative genomics analysis of Alu gene conversions |
| 20:30-22:30 | Happy Hours / poster session / workshop appointments |
| April 3, 2006 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 | Pierre Capy - Dynamics of transposable elements: first steps of invasion and long-term evolution |
| 9:30-10:00 | Andrew Flavell - Conflict, compromise or cooperation - Different ways for transposons and genomes to coexist |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dmitri Petrov - Population dynamics of a comprehensive set of transposable elements in the D. melanogaster genome |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee-break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Giorgio Bernardi - The organization of the human genome: from chromosomal bands to isochores |
| 11:30-12:00 | Peter Arndt - Substitution pattern of mammalian transposable elements - element specific, regional, and evolutionary aspects. |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Cedric Feschotte Life after death: reincarnation of DNA transposons into genetic networks: A case study in the human genome |
| 14:00-14:30 | Ning Jiang - The impact of Mutator-like elements on genome evolution |
| 14:30-15:00 | Antoni Rafalski - Helitrons and the evolution of DNA sequence diversity in maize |
| 15:00-15:30 | Marie-Jose Daboussi - Transposable elements in filamentous fungi |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Andrew Shedlock - BAC-enabled comparative investigation of CR1 evolutionary dynamics in the reptilian genomic landscape |
| 16:30-17:00 | Vladimir Kapitonov - Towards a unified nomenclature and classification of eukaryotic transposable elements |
| 17:00-17:15 | Emile Zuckerkandl - Do transposable elements participate in combinatorial epigenetics? |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00-19:15 | Cristina Vieira - New regulatory regions of Drosophila 412 retrotransposable element generated by recombination |
| 19:15-19:30 | Chris Smith - The Drosophila heterochromatin genome project (DHGP): identifying repeats & using comparative sequence analysis to follow heterochromatin evolution |
| 19:30-19:45 | Sebastien Tempel - The combinatorics of helitron termini in A. thaliana genome revealed strongly structured superfamilies |
| 19:45-20:00 | Victor Zhurkin - The tumor suppressor protein p53 binding sites in the human genome: How are they related to transposons? |
| 20:00-20:30 | Clark Jeffries - Hairpin database: why and how? |
| 20:30-22:30 | Happy Hours / poster session / workshop appointments |
| April 4, 2004 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
Mini-workshop on Classification and Nomenclature of TEsModerators:Pierre Capy, Cedric Feschotte, Jerzy Jurka, Vladimir Kapitonov Preliminary agenda: | |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Mini-presentations (5 min. each) by ~10 speakers interested
in the topic. Each speaker will address two specific issues: (1) what are the classification/nomenclature problems in the particular area of the speaker's expertise,
and (2) a proposal how to address them.
The Speakers will be selected based on particular interest and expertise, and announced in the final program in March. Those interested in making a mini-presentation should send an email to conference@girinst.org stating their particular topic of interest. The deadline is February 28, 2006. After the meeting, the role of each active participant should be to submit a short summary of a particular topic and of the recommendation agreed upon, or an outline of basic disagreements. The moderators are responsible for collecting and recording what was agreed upon, and for preparing a jointly signed publication. |
| 9:30-11:00 | Short summaries by the moderators, additional talking points and discussion how to constitute an international organization devoted to coordination of the classification and nomenclature of TEs. |
| 11:00-12:00 | Nominations and secret ballot (if agreed upon). |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
Due to high interest in the "Genomic Impact of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements", a special issue of Gene devoted to this topic will be published after the conference. Deadline for manuscript submissions is June 16, 2006. Details will be announced during the conference.