Sep 03–06, 2023 | Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, BC, Canada
Scientific Organizers:
Kathleen H. Burns, Harmit S. Malik, and Irina Arkhipova

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Scientific Organizers: Kathleen H. Burns, Harmit S. Malik, and Irina Arkhipova
Kathleen H. Burns
Harmit S. Malik
Irina Arkhipova
***Meeting program subject to change.
Available Formats: = In Person = On DemandBooking Function
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023
Session Chair
Transposon Addiction
Session Chair
Transposable Elements in Aging
Transposable Elements in Neurobiology
Targeted Transposition for Gene Therapy
Short Talk: Short Talk: Endogenous Retroviruses and TDP-43 Proteinopathy Form a Sustaining Feedback Driving Intercellular Spread of Neurodegeneration
Session Chair
Removal of Retrotransposons by LTR-LTR Recombination Impairs Stress Response
Virus-like Transposons Cross the Species Barrier and Drive the Evolution of Genetic Incompatibilities
Epigenetic Silencing of Transposable Elements Drives Variation in Recombination Landscapes
Where the Wild Things Are: Transposable Elements as Drivers of Structural and Functional Variations in the Wheat Genome
SAT-TEs: A Hidden Source of Human Genomic and Regulatory Variation
Transposable Elements Regulate Thymus Development and Function
Contribution and Therapeutic Implications of Transposable Elements in Genetic Diseases
Regulation and role of the domesticated retrotransposon, PEG10, in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Session Chair
Indel’ible Evolutionary Landscapes of Host-virus Arms Races
Chasing the Jumping Genes
Dynamic Evolution of Centromere-associated Retroelements and Satellite DNAs
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structural and Evolutionary Constraints on HIV-1 Vif in the Context of Antiviral APOBEC3 Proteins
Short Talk: Short Talk: Transposable Elements in Regulation of Planarian Stem Cells
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Session Chair
Embryonic Development Requires Transposon Expression
Population Dynamics of Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis
Short Talk: Short Talk: Molecular Mechanisms of De Novo Formation and Trapping of Transposon Insertions by piRNA Clusters
Short Talk: Short Talk: Insights into Retroviral Silencing: Smarcad1 Facilitates H3.3 Deposition on Retroviral Sequences in Embryonic Stem Cells
Short Talk: Short Talk: Transposable Elements Impact the Regulatory Landscape Through Cell Type Specific Epigenome Associations
Short Talk: Short Talk: LCT13b, a Transcript Driven by the Antisense Promoter of a Retrotransposition Deficient L1PA2, has Functional Roles in Colon Cancer
Reverse Transcriptase-Related Genes at the Intersection of Environmental Stress Responses
Senior Vice President of Genetic Engineering and Mobile Elements
Senior Investigator
Associate Professor
Session Chair
Domestication and Applications of Bacterial Reverse Transcriptases
Placental Gene Regulation by Transposable Elements
Immune Signaling Regulation by Transposon Exonization
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Host-transposase Fusion THAP7 is a Transcription Factor Implicated in Vertebrate Development and Human Intellectual Disability
Short Talk: Short Talk: Gammaherpesvirus Infection Induced B2 SINE Retrotransposon Activation Drives mRNA Isoform Switching
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Session Chair
LINE-1 Expression and Retrotransposition in Cancer
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon
Transposable Elements in 3D Genome Evolution
Targeting Transposable Elements to Reverse Cancer Immune Evasion
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structures and Activities of Human LINE-1 ORF2 Protein Reveals Novel Adaptations and Functions
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cancer Cells Co-evolve with Retrotransposons to Mitigate Viral Mimicry
Session Chair
GraffiTE: A Unified Framework to Analyze Transposable Element and Repeat-derived Structural Variants Using Pan-genome Graphs
Characterizing CpG Methylation of Polymorphic TE Insertions in Human Using Third-generation Sequencing
MATES: A Deep Learning-Based Model for Quantifying Transposable Elements in Single-Cell Sequencing Data
Single Cell Retrotranscriptomics with Stellarscope: Developing a Single Cell Transposable Element Atlas of Human Cell Identity
Using TSRdetector to Quantify TE-derived Transcripts at the Single Cell Type Level
Hunting for Helitrons with Genome-wide Identification of Trans-duplicate Genes
Writing Large DNA Sequences into the Genome with Engineered Gene Writers
TE Mobility in Serial Isolates of Cryptococcus from Patients with Recurrent Cryptococcal Meningitis
Session Chair
DNA Folding and Sequence Asymmetry Promote Conjugative Transposition of Antibiotic Resistance Between Diverse Bacteria
Large Serine Integrases: How do they know which way to go?
Accelerated Protein Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements
Short Talk: Short Talk: Mechanisms of RNA-guided DNA Transposition
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structural Basis for Targeting and Immunity of the Tn7 Transposon
Thursday, September 7, 2023
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