SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM. 31 st Annual International Asilomar Chromatin & Chromosomes Conference

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1 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 31 st Annual International Asilomar Chromatin & Chromosomes Conference December 10-13, 2009 Asilomar Conference Grounds Pacific Grove, CA Organizers: Mike Goldman, San Francisco State University Jeff Hansen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Cynthia McMurray, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Updated 12/07/09-Version 1

2 Meeting Reminders: All meeting sessions and evening reception refreshments will be in Heather (North Woods) tentative. ALL SPEAKERS: Please plan your talks to be 20 min in length (allow for a 15 minute presentation + 5 additional minutes for questions) Please upload your talks as early as possible to Mike Goldman (goldman@sfsu.edu or magoldman@gmail.com) in advance (by Wednesday 12/09 evening). At the meeting, please upload your presentation prior to your session (morning session if you are presenting that evening; evening session if you are presenting the next morning). Meals are at Crocker Dining Hall Breakfast 7:30 am to 9:00 am Lunch 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm Dinner 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Evening receptions: soft drinks, beer, wine, and snacks will be served in the meeting room by Asilomar personnel from after the evening sessions until 11 pm on Thursday Saturday nights. Your Sunday Box Lunch requested when you registered for the meeting should be picked up at breakfast on Sunday morning. Please give Mike Goldman or Jim Davie an electronic copy of your abstract for publication in a special issue of BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY (or it to Mike Goldman <goldman@sfsu.edu> immediately after the meeting) 2

3 Schedule of Talks Thursday, December 10, 2009 Dinner 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Session I: 7:30 pm 9:00 pm NUCLEOSOMES AND CHROMATIN FIBERS Juan Ausió, Chairperson Jeff Hayes University of Rochester Inter-array interactions of the core histone tail domains Troy Sorensen Colorado State University Nucleosomal Array Folding: A Surprising Role for Divalent Cations Tamara Caterino University of Rochester Investigation of H1 CTD interactions with nucleosomes Nikhil Raghuram University of Alberta Core histone hyperacetylation impacts the cooperativity of H1 binding to chromatin Refreshments are available until 11 PM in the meeting room Friday, December 11, 2009 Breakfast 7:30 am 9:00 am Session II: 9:00 am 12:00 pm CHROMATIN PROTEINS AND CHROMOSOMES Jim Davie, Chairperson Chris Barnett University of Alaska Anchorage Role of Williams Syndrome Transcription Factor in Xenopus development Jeff Hansen Colorado State University Histone H1 as a protein-protein interaction hub 3

4 Paul Donlin-Asp NCI Studying Centromere Histone Dynamics with FRET Dilshad Khan Mitotic phosphorylation of HDACs min break -- Eden Fussner Hospital for Sick Kids/University of Toronto Constitutive heterochromatin: Is it comprised of 10-nm fibres? Cynthia McMurray Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Mechanisms of Trinucleotide Expansion Jocelyn Krebs University of Alaska Anchorage Histone H2A and genome stability Dinner 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Session III: 7:30 pm 9:00 pm TRANSCRIPTION Jocelyn Krebs, Chairperson Nagarajavel Vivekananthan National Institutes of Health Does a strong nucleosome-positioning sequence form a polar barrier to transcription in vivo? Heather Szerlong Colorado State University Activator-dependent transcription of chromatin by RNA Polymerase II in vitro: regulation by chromatin condensation and chromatin architectural proteins Bojan Drobic The Expression of Immediate Early Genes is regulated via MAPK-responsive H3 Kinases Beatriz Peréz-Cadahía Role of MSK1 in immediate-early genes induction and neoplasic cell transformation 4

5 Giulia Ruben UC Santa Cruz A Role for NUPs in Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Refreshments are available until 11 PM in the meeting room Saturday, December 12, 2009 Breakfast 7:30 am 9:00 am Session IV: 9:00 am 12:00 pm REPLICATION, REPAIR, AND FUNCTIONAL REGULATION Lorraine Pillus, Chairperson Sally Pasion San Francisco State University Interaction between replication protein Cdc24 and the flap endonuclease Rad2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Stuart Campbell University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute A role for Ezh2 in the DNA Damage Response? David Clark NICHD/NIH Cell cycle control of the yeast histone genes Graham Dellaire Dalhousie University The inter-relationship between DNA damage signaling and chromatin: insights from high resolution imaging min break -- Andra Li University of Victoria Characterizing the Role of Histone H2A.X Adam Hall Marshall University Chd1, Chromatin Dynamics, and Sublingual Gland Differentiation Christophe Lavelle Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) Chromatin: the DNA manager (and vice versa) 5

6 Luis Acevedo Active Motif Going beyond ChIP: Miniaturization and other applications Dinner 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Session V: 7:30 pm 9:00 pm POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS Sally Pasion, Chairperson Lorraine Pillus UCSD Chromatin Modification and Metabolic Enzymes in Silencing and Repair Benoit Molinie Marshall University Sulforaphane Epigenetically Regulates Gene Expression In Prostate Cancer Cells Through Histone Post-translational Modifications Philippe Georgel Marshall University Epigenetic regulation of prostate cancer Bradley Williamson University of Victoria Interaction of ING proteins with chromatin templates consisting of defined post-translational modifications James Davie Identification of proteins differentially associated with chromatin in breast and prostate cancer cells Refreshments are available until 11 PM in the meeting room Sunday, December 13, 2009 Breakfast 7:30 am 9:00 am 9:30 am 10:30 am -- BUSINESS MEETING -- 6