SCHEDULE.
MONDAY, 20
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 10:00
Welcome Opening by the Organizers
Morning Session
Chair: Angelo Rosa
10:00 - 10:45
Christoph Cremer, Localization Microscopy of Nuclear Structure: Imaging the Epigenetic Landscape at the Nanoscale
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00
François Képès, Modelling and Engineering Genome Architecture
12:00 - 12:45
Irina Solovei, The Major Chromatin Classes Blueprint the Nuclear Architecture
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Mario Nicodemi
14:15 - 15:00
Tom Misteli, Deep Imaging to Probe Genome Organization and Function
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15
Denis Duboule, The Functions of TADs and Boundaries at the HoxD Locus
16:15 - 17:00
Sergei Nechaev, Spectra of Random Clusters in Highly Dissolved Solutions: Number-Theoretic Manifestation of Noise
17:00 - 17:45
Gerd Blobel, Functions of Chromatin Looping
17:45 - 18:30
Angelo Rosa, Chromosome Organization and the Physics of Crumpled Polymers
TUESDAY, 21
Morning Session
Chair: François Képès
09:15 - 10:00
Thomas Cremer, 3D Nuclear Topography of Active and Inactive Regulatory Sequences Studied with Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15
Alexander Y. Grosberg, TBA
11:15 - 12:00
Cristina Cardoso, Elementary Units of DNA Replication and Repair: A Mirror of Chromosome Higher Order Structure?
12:00 - 12:45
Bas van Steensel, Architecture and Regulatory Functions of Lamina-Associated Domains
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Matteo Marsili
14:15 - 15:00
Olga Dudko, The Contraction of Space and Time in Genomic Interactions
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30
Poster Session
WEDNESDAY, 22
Morning Session
Chair: Ana Pombo
09:15 - 10:00
Peter R. Cook, Transcription Factories: Genome Organization and Gene Regulation
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15
Andrzej Stasiak, Transcription-Induced Supercoiling and TADs Formation
11:15 - 12:00
Musa Mhlanga, TBA
12:00 - 12:45
Marina Lusic, Genome Organization in Function of Viral Integration and Transcription
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Cristina Cardoso
14:15 - 15:00
Amos Tanay, Single Cell and Single Molecule Chromosome Conformation Capture
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15
Mario Nicodemi, Hierarchical Folding of Chromosomes in Neuronal Differentiation and its Link to Epigenetics
16:15 - 17:00
Torsten Waldminghaus, Building Synthetic Secondary Chromosomes to Understand Chromosome Maintenance in Bacteria
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Short Talks Selected from Best Posters. I
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17:00 - 17:30
Marie-Odile Baudement, The HRS-Seq: A Novel Method for Genome-Wide Profiling of Nuclear Compartment-Associated Sequences
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17:30 - 18:00
Diego Cattoni, Nanoscale Structuration and Regulation of Chromatin Folding Revealed by Super-Resolution Imaging
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18:00 - 18:30
Francesco Ferrari, Comparison of Computational Methods for the Analysis of Hi-C Data
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THURSDAY, 23
Morning Session
Chair: Christoph Cremer
09:15 - 10:00
Luca Giorgetti, Structural Organization of the Inactive X-Chromosome in the Mouse
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15
Josée Dostie, Chromatin State and Architecture Guides the Function of a Long Noncoding RNA
11:15 - 12:00
Daniel Jost, Epigenomics in 4D: A Functional Role for the Dynamic Coupling between Epigenome and Chromatin Organization
12:00 - 12:45
Pietro Liò, Chromatin Capture and Epigenetic Data Evidence Integration using Multi Layer and Hierarchical Block Matrices
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Josée Dostie
14:15 - 15:00
Benjamin Audit, Structural Organization of Human Replication Timing Domains
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15
Ana Pombo, Genome Architecture Mapping: A Spatial Approach to Map Chromatin Contacts
Short Talks Selected from Best Posters. II
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16:15 - 16:45
Chiara Lanzuolo, Impairment of LaminA/C-Polycomb Crosstalk Affects Genome Compartmentalization in Laminopathies
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16:45 - 17:15
Dario G. Lupiáñez, Understanding the Pathogenic Effects of Structural Variations on Chromatin Organization
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17:15 - 17:45
Karen Lipkow, Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics
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17:45 - 18:15
Vittore F. Scolari, Quantitative Assessment of Irreversible Crosslink Effect on Cromatin Structure
FRIDAY, 24
Morning Session
Chair: Angelo Rosa
09:15 - 10:00
Jean-Marc Victor, Finite-Size Scaling Analysis of Super-Resolution Imaging and Simulations of Epigenetic Domains
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15
Colin Semple, Elevated Rates of Substitution at Regulatory and Architectural Sites across Cancer Types
11:15 - 12:00
François Spitz, Molecular Mechanisms Organizing and Regulating Long-Distance Relationships
12:00 - 12:15
Concluding Remarks, and Hope to See You Soon!
12:15
Lunch