Programme

Registration and “Welcome cocktail” at the meeting place “Palazzo Steri” (University of Palermo)

Free dinner (not included in the package)

Registration, welcome and opening of the meeting

Chair: Davide Corona

Kent Golic

Dicentric chromosome breakage and repair

Travis Karg

Mechanisms of acentric chromosome segregation

Coffee break

Brandt Warecki

Aurora B mediated localized delays in nuclear envelope formation facilitates inclusion of late segregating chromosome fragments

Ting Wu

Single-molecule super-resolution in situ imaging of chromosomal DNA in Drosophila with a sidebar on haplotype visualization

Lunch

Chair: Kent Golic

Irene Chiolo

Right place, right time: novel role of nuclear periphery in heterochromatin repair

Pamela Geyer

Non-canonical activation of the DNA damage pathway reduces germline stem cell survival in Drosophila

William Sullivan

Why is heterochromatin so closely associated with the centromere?

Coffee break

Guided tour of Palermo

Dinner on "caiccho" a typical sicilian boat

Chair: Gary Karpen

Abby Dernburg

H3K9 methylation shapes the meiotic recombination landscape in C. elegans

Gunter Reuter

Chromatin organization at synaptonemal complexes and crossover control in Drosophila

Coffee break

Eduardo Gorab

Further data on the occurrence of triple-helical DNA in Drosophila Heterochromatin

Keith Maggert

Probing heterochromatin stability - sequence and function

Lunch

Chair: Maurizio Gatti

Tatiana Kolesnikova

Chromatin states and replication patterns in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster

Patrizio Dimitri

The BCNT proteins: a long-neglected class of multifaceted proteins

Davide Corona

trans-activation: a new epigenetic phenomenon underlying transcriptional memory

Coffee break

Poster session

Free time and free dinner (not included in the package)

Chair: Gunter Reuter

François Karch

Structure/Function dissection of the Fab-7 boundary within the context of the bithorax complex

Luca Lo Piccolo

Modulation of ω-speckle structure by ISWI chromatin remodeler: new insights into neurogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster

Coffee break

Zheng Zhou

Structural study of an internal dual-chaperone system for SWR1-mediated histone H2A.Z replacement

Martin Muller

Regulatory architecture of the apterous locus

Wolfgang Miller

Low-titer symbionts of Drosophila that matter: new lessons from Wolbachia

Lunch

Round Trip by bus to Segesta, Marsala, Torre di Nubia. Dinner in the museum of salt

Chair: Pamela Geyer

James Birchler

Dosage compensation in Drosophila: shifting chromatin states to achieve effective genomic balance

Victoria Meller

Identification of X chromatin by long and short noncoding RNA

Coffee break

Jan Larsson

Repeated elements, heterochromatin and chromosome-specific targeting in Drosophila

Maria Kim

roX2 RNA decorates Y-chromosome loops in Drosophila spermatocytes

Lunch

Chair: Maria Pia Bozzetti

Gary Karpen

Can phase separation principles account for the formation and function of the heterochromatin domain?

Bernardo Carvalho

PacBio sequencing to resolve difficult genomic regions: The Mst77Y genes on the Drosophila melanogaster Y chromosome

Marie Fablet

A population look at the piRNA pathway in Drosophila

Coffee break

Yikang Rong

MTV, a telomeric ssDNA-binding complex, protects Drosophila telomeres and recruits retrotransposons to chromosome ends

Maurizio Gatti

pendolino (peo) a gene required for protection of Drosophila heterochromatic telomeres

Free time and free dinner (not included in the package)

Chair: Ting Wu

Alexei Aravin

The interplay between chromatin and piRNA

Katalin Fejes Tóth

Small RNAs guide establishment of repressive chromatin marks on transposons in the Drosophila germline

Coffee break

Haifan Lin

Uniting major constituents of the genome: the role of piRNAs in the germline

Maria Pia Bozzetti

Searching for members of the piRNA-mediated transposon silencing in the gonads looking at the modifiers of the crystal-Stellate regulation

Gustavo Kuhn

Drosophila DINE-TR1 is abundant in heterochromatin, participates in piRNA biogenesis and is a recurrent source for satellite DNA emergence

Lunch

Chair: Ting Wu

Amanda Larracuente

Intragenomic conflict and satellite DNA evolution in Drosophila

Sergio Pimpinelli

Transposons jumping into the Canalization and Assimilation concepts

Departure by bus to Mondello: Sunset and Farewell Banquet

Closure of the conference

Coffee break