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Program
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2nd International Conference and Workshop
Genomic Impact of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements
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Organizer: Jerzy Jurka, Genetic Information Research Institute
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Friday, February 6, 2009 |
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| 15:00-18:00 | REGISTRATION (Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall) |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:30-23:00 |
Warm-up
party/poster previews/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. |
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Saturday, February 7, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:00 | REGISTRATION (Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall) |
| 9:00-9:10 | Jerzy Jurka – Opening remarks |
| 9:10-9:50 | Roy Britten - History and relationships of TEs |
| 9:50-10:20 | David Haussler - Evidence that transposons shaped vertebrate gene regulatory networks |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee-break/Group photo |
| 10:50-11:20 | Gill Bejerano - A study of co-option in the human genome |
| 11:20-11:50 | Michael Savageau - Quantitative evolutionary design of gene circuits: lessons from Bacteria |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Juergen Brosius - The retro-look of genomes |
| 14:00-14:30 | Norihiro Okada - Multiple SINE insertions made our brain mammalian? |
| 14:30-15:00 | Chantal Vaury - Insulators brought by TE contribute to gene regulation in relationship with nuclear architecture |
| 15:00-15:30 | Dixie Mager - Complex epigenetics of mammalian endogenous retroviruses |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee-break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Cedric Feschotte - Mammalian transposable elements and the emergence of lineage-specific functions |
| 16:30-17:00 | King Jordan - Transposable elements, chromatin and gene regulation |
| 17:00-17:30 | Alan Weiner - Human PGBD3: a piggyBac transposon that is both good and bad for us? |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:15-19:45 | John Moran - Studies of a human transposable element |
| 19:45-20:15 | Sandy Martin - Mutational analyses of ORF1p function in LINE-1 retrotransposition |
| 20:15-20:45 | Thomas Eickbush - Regulating the expression of R2 elements within the nucleolus |
| 20:45-23:00 | Happy Hours / poster session (odd numbers) |
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Sunday, February 8, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 | Holly Wichman - Comparative biology of L1 elements |
| 9:30-10:00 | Prescott Deininger - Cellular responses to damage by non-LTR retroelements |
| 10:00-10:15 | Nicolas Gilbert - LINE-1 mediated mobilization of snRNA |
| 10:15-10:30 | Eric Devor - A microRNA incubator on the marsupial (Monodelphis domestica) X-chromosome was created via L1 transposon-mediated serial duplication. |
| 10:30-10:45 | Corrado Spadafora - Functional roles for LINE1-encoded reverse transcriptase in embryonic development and tumor progression |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee-break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Josefa Gonzalez - High rate of recent transposable element-induced adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster |
| 11:30-12:00 | Mark Batzer - Mobile elements and primate genomic variation |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Jeff Bennetzen - The evolution, activities and specificities of transposable elements in grass genomes |
| 14:00-14:30 | Zoltan Ivics - Transposon-host cell interactions in the regulation of Sleeping Beauty transposition |
| 14:30-14:45 | Marie-Angele Grandbastien – Transposable elements and TE-gene associations in the transcriptome of Solanaceae species |
| 14:45-15:00 | R. Keith Slotkin - Germ cell-specific activation and silencing of transposable elements in plants |
| 15:00-15:15 | Vincent Colot - A role for RNAi in the correction of transposable element methylation and silencing defects in Arabidopsis |
| 15:15-15:30 | Ken Naito - Live watching TE burst: behavior and impact of a rice transposon mPing |
| 15:30-15:50 | Coffee-break |
| 15:50-16:20 | Arian Smit - Evolution of transposable elements in mammals and birds |
| 16:20-16:50 | Andrew Shedlock - The Anolis genome assembly: balancing mammalian and avian perspectives on amniote repeat evolution |
| 16:50-17:20 | Vladimir Kapitonov - Stories of outrageous horizontal transfer of DNA transposons |
| 17:20-17:50 | Irina Arkhipova - Massive Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers |
| 18:30-22:30 | Dinner at Monterey Bay Aquarium: buses depart at 18:30 |
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Monday, February 9, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 | Hadi Quesneville - REPET: pipelines for the identification and annotation of transposable elements in genomic sequences |
| 9:30-10:00 | David Pollock - Identifying repeat-derived regions in the twilight zone |
| 10:00-10:30 | Marcelo Bento Soares - High-throughput sequence-based epigenomic analysis of human Alu repeats |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee-break |
| 10:45-11:00 | Guillaume Bourque - Evolution of the mammalian transcription factor binding repertoire via transposable elements |
| 11:00-11:15 | Victor Zhurkin - The tumor suppressor protein p53 binding sites in mammalian genomes are related to transposons. |
| 11:15-11:30 | Tomasz Zemojtel - Methylation and deamination of CpGs generates p53 binding sites on a genomic scale |
| 11:30-11:45 | Geoff Faulkner - The regulated retrotransposon transcriptome of mammalian cells |
| 11:45-12:00 | Sebastian Szpakowski - Methylation profiling: repetitive elements and disease progression. |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Marlene Belfort - Stressed retrotransposons on the move |
| 14:00-14:15 | Nancy Craig - Characterization of an active mammalian DNA transposon |
| 14:15-14:30 | Gerald Schumann - 5’-transduced SVA retrotransposon groups spread efficiently throughout the human genome |
| 14:30-14:40 | Dustin Hancks - Exon-trapping mediated by the SVA retrotransposon |
| 14:40-14:55 | Hidenori Nishihara - Retroposon analysis reveals simultaneous divergence of the placental mammalian ancestor possibly triggered by continental divisions |
| 14:55-15:05 | Kamal Rawal - ELAN: A server based tool for genome wide analysis of mobile genetic elements |
| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee-break |
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Mini-workshop on Classification and Nomenclature of TEs Moderators: Pierre Capy, Cedric Feschotte, Jerzy Jurka, Vladimir Kapitonov, Arian Smit |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Pierre Capy - Automatic classification of mariner-like elements |
| 16:00-16:30 | Ruth Seal/Jens Mayer (joint presentation) - The need for an approved nomenclature for (human) endogenous retroviruses |
| 16:30-16:35 | Jonas Blomberg - Optimal taxonomical markers for ERVs |
| 16:35-16:40 | Francois Sabot - Non-autonomous and complete derivate elements: how to classify them ? |
| 16:40-16:45 | Irina Arkhipova - Superfamily-specific reference datasets as possible aids in resolving classification problems |
| 16:45-17:30 (time for this session can be extended if needed for discussion) | Open floor: nominations and election of the International Committee for Classification of TEs (ICCTE). |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:30-23:00 | Happy Hours / poster session (even numbers) |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
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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 April 30, 2009. Details will be posted on the conference website after the conference. | |
