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Genome Instability and DNA Repair (C6)

Organizer(s): Maria Jasin, Stephen J. Elledge and Michael S. Neuberger
March 1 - 6, 2009
Taos Convention Center (meeting only)  ·  Taos, New Mexico
Abstract Deadline: November 4, 2008
Late Abstract Deadline: December 2, 2008
Scholarship Deadline: November 4, 2008
Early Registration Deadline: January 5, 2009


Supported by the Directors' Fund



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Summary of Meeting
DNA damage repair and the DNA damage response overall are critical to the organism for both tumor suppression and the propagation of genomic information to subsequent generations. Tremendous advances have occurred in the last several years which have enlightened our understanding of the DNA damage response in all organisms and the derivation of genomic rearrangements, including in mouse and human. This meeting will highlight recent advances. Programmed DNA damage and its repair will be presented in sessions on the immune system and meiosis and germ cell development. Mechanisms of DNA repair will be presented in sessions on homologous recombination and non-homologous end-joining. Genomic rearrangements arising from sequence repeats and repetitive elements will also be presented.

Sunday, March 1
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration Rio Grande D
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments Rio Grande A/B/C
7:30 - 9:30 PM Keynote Session Bataan
* Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Welcome
* Michael S. Neuberger, Medical Research Council
Introduction
Michael Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Patterns of Somatic Mutation in Human Cancer Genomes
* Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
Introduction
Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University
How Telomeres Protect Chromosome Ends
Monday, March 2
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Rio Grande A/B/C
8:00 - 11:15 AM Checkpoints Bataan
* Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
Integrative Approaches for DNA Damage and Cell Cycle Analysis
Jean J. Gautier, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Sensing and Repairing a Single DNA Interstrand Crosslink
Alexander J.R. Bishop, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
Short Talk: A Conserved DNA Damage Survival Network
Simon J. Boulton, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture: The Function and Regulation of HCLK2/Tel2 in DNA Damage Checkpoints
Tanya T. Paull, University of Texas at Austin
Mre11/Rad50 Complexes and Mechanisms of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair
R. Scott Williams, The Scripps Research Institute
Short Talk: Structural Basis for Mre11/Rad50 DNA End Bridging and Nuclease Processing in DNA Double Strand Break Repair
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Rio Grande C/D
11:15 AM - On Own for Lunch
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM Poster Setup Rio Grande
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Rio Grande
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 1: Checkpoints and Genomic Rearrangements Bataan
* Ralph Scully, Harvard Medical School
Control of Non-Homologous End Joining by Mre11 in Mammalian Cells
Brendan D. Price, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Histone Methylation Couples DNA Damage Detection to Activation of the Tip60-ATM Signaling Pathway
Yaron Galanty, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
SUMO Proteins Promote Responses to DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cells
John L. Nitiss, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Tdp1, Exo1 and Apn1 Collaborate to Control the Accuracy of Non-Homologous End-Joining in Yeast
Jeremy M. Stark, BRI of the City of Hope
Mechanisms of Mammalian Alternative-NHEJ
Bernard S. Lopez, CNRS, Centre des Etudes Atomique
Initiation of Alternative NHEJ in Mammalian Cells
Karina B. Falbo, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Involvement of a Chromatin-Remodeling Complex in the DNA Damage Tolerance Pathways during DNA Replication
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Rio Grande C/D
5:00 - 7:15 PM DNA Repair and Chromatin Bataan
* Jiri Lukas, Danish Cancer Society
Dynamic Organization of Signaling and Repair Machines at Damaged Chromosomes
Samantha Gail Zeitlin, University of California, San Diego
Short Talk: The Centromeric H3 Variant CENP-A is Targeted by and Functions in DNA Repair
Wade Harper, Harvard Medical School
The Mammalian SLX4 Complex: A Molecular Tool-Kit for DNA Repair
Geneviève Almouzni, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Chromatin Assembly Factors and the Challenges of DNA Replication and Repair
Matthew D. Weitzman, The Salk Institute
Short Talk: A Viral Ubiquitin Ligase Targets RNF8 and RNF168 to Modulate Histone Ubiquitination and the DNA Damage Response
7:15 - 8:15 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Rio Grande
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Rio Grande
Tuesday, March 3
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Rio Grande A/B/C
8:00 - 11:15 AM Double-Strand Break Repair Bataan
* Lorraine S. Symington, Columbia University
Resection and DNA Synthesis during Double-Strand Break Repair
James E. Haber, Brandeis University
Genome Stability and Instability through Homologous Recombination
Toyoko Tsukuda, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico
Short Talk: Chromatin Remodeling during DNA Double-Strand Break (DSB) Repair by Homologous Recombination (HR)
Stephen C. West, Cancer Research UK
Identification of Holliday Junction Resolvases from Yeast and Human Cells
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Double-Strand Break Repair in Mammalian Cells and the Role of BRCA2
Emmanuelle Passegué, University of California, San Francisco
Short Talk: Differential DNA Repair in Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Myeloid Progenitors
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Rio Grande C/D
11:00 AM - On Own for Lunch
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Poster Setup Rio Grande
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Rio Grande
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 2: Mechanisms of Repair and Replication Bataan
* Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia
RNAi Screens Identify Genes Important for Genetic Stability in Human Cells
Bik K. Tye, Cornell University
A Defective MCM Helicase Predisposes Yeast to Aneuploidy and Accelerated Proliferation Independently
Judith L. Campbell, California Institute of Technology
Interplay between Mre11 Nuclease and Dna2 Helicase/Nuclease in DSB Repair and at Telomeres
Gregory Ira, Baylor College of Medicine
Resection of DNA Double Strand Breaks in Budding Yeast
Hannah L. Klein, New York University
Regulating Rad51 Recombinase through DNA Helicases and SWI2-like Proteins
Dipanjan Chowdhury, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
miR-24-Mediated Down-Regulation of H2AX Suppresses DNA Repair in Terminally Differentiated Cells
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Rio Grande C/D
5:00 - 7:15 PM Replication and Genomic Stability Bataan
* Marco F. Foiani, Instituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare
Topological Transitions at Replicating Chromosomes
Kyungjae Myung, NHGRI, National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Human ELG1 Regulates the Level of Monoubiquitinated PCNA through Interactions with PCNA and USP1
Vincenzo Costanzo, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture: Maintaining Genome Stability during DNA Replication in Vertebrate Organisms
Karlene A. Cimprich, Stanford University
Mechanisms for Maintaining Genome Stability at the Replication Fork
Carol E. Bansbach, Vanderbilt University
Short Talk: A Functional Genomic Screen Identifies a Novel Replication Stress Protein
7:15 - 8:15 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Rio Grande
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Rio Grande
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Rio Grande A/B/C
8:00 - 11:15 AM Genomic Instability and the Immune System Bataan
Michael R. Lieber, University of Southern California
Mechanisms of DNA Breakage and NHEJ in Human Chromosomal Translocations
* Michael S. Neuberger, Medical Research Council
DNA Deaminases in Immunity
Jayanta Chaudhuri, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Short Talk: Specific Recruitment of Protein Kinase A to the Immunoglobulin Locus Regulates Class Switch Recombination
Frederick W. Alt, HHMI, Children's Hospital and Immune Disease Institute, Boston
DNA Double Strand Breaks, Translocations and Lymphoma
Davide F. Robbiani, Rockefeller University
Short Talk: Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase is Required for the Breaks in c-myc that Lead to c-myc/IgH Chromosome Translocations
Alberto Martin, University of Toronto
Short Talk: Msh2-Deficient Emu c-myc Mice Rapidly Succumb to Pro B Cell Lymphoma
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Rio Grande C/D
11:15 AM - On Own for Lunch
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM Poster Setup Rio Grande
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Rio Grande
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 3: DNA Repair: Part 1 - Cancer, Part 2 - The Immune System Bataan
* David O. Ferguson, University of Michigan
Roles of the Mre11 Nuclease in DNA Repair and Lymphocyte Development
Kevin D. Mills, The Jackson Laboratory
Replication, Recombination, and DNA Repair: The 3 R's are Required in Lymphocytes
JoAnn Sekiguchi, University of Michigan
Dysfunctional Artemis Nuclease Activity Leads to Partial Immunodeficiency, Genome Instability and Tumorigenesis
Bernardo Reina-San-Martin, IGBMC
Jean Pierre de Villartay, INSERM U768
Reduced Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination in the Absence of Artemis
Kefei Yu, Michigan State University
Class Switch Recombination in NHEJ-Deficient B Cells
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Rio Grande C/D
5:00 - 7:00 PM Cancer and DNA Repair Defects Bataan
* John H.J. Petrini, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Genetic Analysis of Chromosome Break Metabolism
Lee Zou, Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Single-Stranded DNA Orchestrates an ATM-to-ATR Switch at DNA Breaks
Jos Jonkers, Netherlands Cancer Institute
Targeting Double-Strand Break Repair Defects in Conditional Mouse Models of BRCA-Associated Breast Cancer
Thomas Ludwig, Columbia University
Short Talk: The E3 Ligase Activity of BRCA1 is Not Essential for Mammalian Cell Viability or Homology-Directed Repair of Double-Strand DNA Breaks
Hai Jiang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Short Talk: The ATM-Chk2 Signaling Network Controls Alternative Cell Fates after Chemotherapy, Based on a p53 Binary Switch
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Rio Grande
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 3 Rio Grande
Thursday, March 5
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Rio Grande A/B/C
8:00 - 11:15 AM Genetic Variation Bataan
* Neil Hunter, University of California, Davis
Implementing a Crossover Outcome during Meiotic Recombination
Scott Keeney, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Molecular Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Meiotic Double-Strand Break Distributions
Jennifer Fung, University of California, San Francisco
Short Talk: Global Analysis of Meiotic Crossover Control
James R. Lupski, Baylor College of Medicine
Two is Fine, Three is a Crowd, and One Often does not Satisfy - Getting the Gene Dosage Correct in the Nervous System
Matthew Hurles, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Germline Structural Variation: Maps, Mechanisms and Disease
Adam Shlien, Hospital for Sick Children
Short Talk: Contribution of Constitutional DNA Copy Number Variation to the Li-Fraumeni Cancer Predisposition Syndrome and it’s Associated Tumors
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Rio Grande C/D
11:15 AM - On Own for Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 4: Genetic Variation and Meiosis Bataan
* Bernard de Massy, Institut de Génétique Humaine
Genome Wide Control of the Distribution of Meiotic Recombination in Mice
Philippe R. Bois, The Scripps Research Institute - Scripps Florida
Regulation of Mouse Recombination Hotspots
Petko M. Petkov, The Jackson Laboratory
Recombination Landscape, Genetic Background and Genes Regulating Hotspot Activity
Eugenio Mancera, European Molecular Biology Laboratories
High-Resolution Mapping of Crossovers and Noncrossovers in the Yeast Genome
Catherine H. Freudenreich, Tufts University
Replication Fork Restart and Checkpoint Responses at Structure-Forming CAG/CTG Trinucleotide Repeats
Kirill S. Lobachev, Georgia Institute of Technology
Role of Post-Replication Repair Pathway in Cruciform Resolution in Yeast
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Rio Grande C/D
5:00 - 7:15 PM Sequence Elements and Genomic Instability Bataan
* John V. Moran, University of Michigan Medical School
Studies of a Human Transposable Element
Prescott Deininger, Tulane University
Mobile Elements, Double-Strand DNA Breaks, and the Cellular Response
Beverly S. Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Role of Palindromic Sequences in 22q11 Rearrangements
Susanna Maxwell Lewis, Harvard Medical School
Three Mechanisms for Palindrome-Associated Breaks Acquired in vivo
7:15 - 8:15 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Rio Grande
8:15 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Rio Grande
Friday, March 6
Departure
*Session Chair   †Speaker invited, not yet responded.



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