Tuesday, 18th February 41st Lorne Genome Conference 2020
Registration
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Session 6: Chromatin Dynamics
9:00AM - 10:35AM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chair: Andrew Deans
Sponsored by:
- Dissecting Roles for Condensate Properties in Heterochromatin Domain Formation & Function - Gary Karpen
- Convergent evolution shapes vertebrate-specific polycomb-mediated gene repression - Chen Davidovich (Mid-Career Award Winner)
- Why centromeres fall apart in meiosis, and how telomeres promote their reassembly - Julia Promisel Cooper
Morning Tea
10:35AM - 11:15AM
Tuesday, 18th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 7: Chromatin Dynamics
11:15AM - 12:50PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chair: Tracy Bryan
Sponsored by:
- Curious in the nucleus: Cryo-EM of telomeres and rChIP of chromatin binders - Thomas Cech
- L1 activity is a hallmark of cellular reprogramming in mammals - Sandra R Richardson (Mid-Career Award Winner)
- Pattern formation within a liquid crystalline compartment regulates meiotic recombination - Abby Dernburg
Lunch
12:50PM - 1:15PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Exhibition Hall
Student & Invited Speaker Lunch
12:50PM - 1:15PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Horizons Room
Lorne Genome AGM
1:15PM - 2:30PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Session 8A: Bioinformatics
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chair: Carolyn de Graaf
- Genomic diversity of the gut microbiota: culturing, genomics and metagenomics - Samuel C Forster
- MaxHiC: a robust background correction model to identify statistically significant Interactions in Hi-C and capture Hi-C experiments - Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
- Moving beyond RNA sequence: uncovering the functional role of RNA structure - Vincent DA Corbin
- No more discrimination - including microbial eukaryotes in metagenomic studies. - Vanessa Marcelino
Session 8B: Gene Regulation
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Horizons Room
Chair: Ozren Bogdanovic
- Rapid translational responses to stress revealed by translation complex profile sequencing in yeast and mammalian cells - Nikolay Shirokikh
- A new role for a germ-cell-specific epigenetic regulator in cancer. - Tanya Soboleva
- Heterochromatin structure is critical for higher-order chromatin organisation and appropriate transcriptional programs - Christine R Keenan
- Xmas ESC: A new female embryonic stem cell system that reveals the BAF complex as a key regulator of the establishment of X chromosome inactivation - Andrew Keniry
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 9: Chromatin and Epigenetics
4:00PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chair: Marnie Blewitt
Sponsored by:
- Variable silencing of the repeat genome - implications for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance - Anne Ferguson-Smith
- Enzymatic Methyl-Seq uncovers the regulatory backbone of the Cannabis Sativa genome - Keerthana Krishnan
- Heterochromatin inheritance and epigenetic control of the genome - Shiv Grewal
Break
5:20PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Closing Lecture: Single-cell Genomics
5:30PM - 6:15PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chair: Juliet French
Conference Awards & Close
6:15PM - 7:00PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Auditorium
Chairs: Scott Cohen & Juliet French
Festival of Food
7:30PM - 11:59PM
Tuesday, 18th February
Umisango, Jashn & Lorne Central