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