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Programme

Anniversary Symposium

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Programme

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

14.00 – 16.00    Welcome coffee – Get together

16.00 – 16.15    Welcome address

SESSION 1: Epigenetics

16.15 – 16.45    Adrian Bird, University of Edinburgh
    DNA methylation and Rett Syndrome

16.45 – 17.15    Thomas Jenuwein, MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
    De novo establishment of heterochromatin in the mouse epigenome 

17.15 – 17.45    Sasha Tarakovsky, Rockefeller University
    Epigenome mimicry by viruses

18.00    Welcome Reception

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

SESSION 2: Cell Cycle

09.00 – 09.30    Kim Nasmyth, University of Oxford
    How does Cohesin hold sister chromatids together and Wapl destroy their linkage?

09.30 – 10.00    Jan Ellenberg, EMBL
    Advanced imaging of mitotic chromosome structure

10.00 – 10.30    Andrea Musacchio, MPI of Molecular Physiology
    Chromosome bi-orientation: from structure to function

10.30 – 11.15    coffee break

SESSION 3: Early Lymphopoiesis

11.15 – 11.45    Rudi Grosschedl, MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
    Programming the B cell lineage

11.45 – 12.15    Tanja Schwickert, IMP
    Transcriptional control of B cell development analyzed by targeted in vivo protein degradation

12.15 – 12.45    Ellen Rothenberg, Caltech
    Dynamics and machinery of the early T-cell commitment gene regulatory network

12.45 – 14.15    lunch break

SESSION 4: Genome Architecture & Gene Regulation I

14.15 – 14.45    Kikue Tachibana, MPI for Biochemistry
    Zygotic genome activation by the totipotency pioneer factor Nr5a2

14.45 – 15.15    Leonid Mirny, MIT
    Loop extrusion as genome communication device

15.15 – 15.45    Iain Davidson, IMP
    Cohesin-mediated DNA loop extrusion in vitro

15.45 – 16.30    coffee break

SESSION 5: Cell Biology

16.30 – 17.00    Mark Petronczki, BI Vienna
    Research Beyond Borders – expanding BI’s therapeutic reach

17.00 – 17.30    Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School
    Peroxisomal protein import reveals new paradigms of membrane translocation

17.30 – 18.00    Giulio Supert-Furga, CeMM Vienna
    Opening doors to gain access to cells and to life

19.00    Heurigen Evening for invited speakers, current & past members 
    of the Busslinger and Peters Lab

Thursday, 1 June 2023

SESSION 6: Immune Responses to Environmental Signals

09.00 – 09.30    Dan Littman, NYU
    Shaping of immune responses by the gut microbiota

09.30 – 10.00    Richard Flavell, Yale School of Medicine
    Mechanisms of immune cell-driven fibrosis

10.00 – 10.30    Hans-Reimer Rodewald, DKFZ
    Mast cells: Sensors for immunity of avoidance

10.30 – 11.15    coffee break

SESSION 7: Genome Architecture & Gene Regulation II

11.15 – 11.45    Jane Skok, NYU
    The impact of CTCF mutations on chromatin organization and gene regulation

11.45 – 12.15    Tomoko Nishiyama, Nagoya University
    Mechanistic distinction between cohesin-dependent sister chromatid cohesion and 
    loop extrusion

12.15 – 12.45    Kerstin Wendt, Erasmus MC
    The complex roles of STAGs – from a cohesin subunit to a focus protein in oncology

12.45 – 14.15    lunch break

SESSION 8: Control of B cell Immunity

14.15 – 14.45    Taras Kreslavsky, Karolinska Institute
    The multilayered identity of B cell memory

14.45 – 15.15    Gabriel Victora, Rockefeller University
    Clonal and cellular dynamics of the recall antibody response

15.15 – 15.45    Stephen Nutt, WEHI
    Understanding diversity in the immune system

15.45 – 16.30    coffee break

SESSION 9: Ubiquitin & Protein Degradation

16.30 – 17.00    Brenda Schulman, MPI for Biochemistry
    Shapeshifting E3 ubiquitin ligases

17.00 – 17.30    Dan Finley, Harvard Medical School
    Global Remodeling of the Proteome

17.30 – 17.45    Closing Remarks – Meinrad Busslinger

17.45 – 18.00    Closing Remarks – Jan-Michael Peters

18.00 Buffet dinner and farewell party at the IMP