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- Maintenance of Genome Stability
Maintenance of Genome Stability
Abcam - 07 Mar 2016
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Topics Include
- DNA repair, replication and recombination
- Checkpoints and cell cycle control
- Control by post-translational modifications
- Links to nuclear architecture, chromosome biology, chromatin, transcription and other processes
- Genome instability in disease and ageing; diagnostic and therapeutic applications
Speakers:
- Angelika Amon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
How aneuploidy promotes tumorigenesis
- Keith Caldecott (University of Sussex, UK)
DNA strand break repair in human disease
- Karlene Cimprich (Stanford University, US)
Mechanisms for the maintenance of genome stability
- Alan D’Andrea (Harvard Medical School, US)
Replication fork protection by the Fanconi Anemia proteins
- Titia De Lange (The Rockefeller University, US)
Chromothripsis and kataegis from telomere fusions
- Daniel Durocher (University of Toronto, Canada)
Regulation of DNA double-strand break repair by the cell cycle
- Stephen Elledge (Harvard Medical School, US)
Activation of inflammation by the DNA damage response
- Óscar Fernández-Capetillo (CNIO, Spain)
Mechanisms of resistance to anticancer therapies
- Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland)
New roles for MRX/MRN in double strand break repair
- Ian Hickson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
How unfinished business from S-phase impacts on chromosome stability in mitosis
- Andrew Jackson (Medical Research Council, UK)
Genome stability genes for primordial dwarfism
- Jos Jonkers (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
Genetic determinants of tumor development, therapy response and resistance in mouse models of BRCA-deficient breast cancer
- Gaelle Legube (CNRS, France)
Function of chromatin during DNA double strand break repair
- Jiri Lukas (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Limits and thresholds of protein pathways that keep our genomes stable
- Andre Nussenzweig (National Cancer Institute, US)
Synthetic Viability in BRCA deficient cells
- David Pellman (Havard Medical School, US)
Cell division errors and DNA damage
- John Rouse (University of Dundee, UK)
Twists and turns on the Fanconi anaemia pathway
- Agata Smogorzewska (The Rockefeller University, US)
DNA repair during replication
- Madalena Tarsounas (University of Oxford, UK)
A pharmacological screen to identify drugs with selective toxicity against BRCA1/2-deficient cells
- Johannes Walter (Harvard Medical School, US)
Mechanisms of replication-coupled DNA repair
Meeting Details
Date | 07 Mar 2016 |
Location | Westin Playa Bonita Panama Panama, Panama Get Directions |
Organizers | Steve Jackson |