Genome Integrity Discussion Group June 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
The New York Academy of Sciences
Special End-of-Year Meeting and Poster Session
Organizers: Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University; John Petrini, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Rodney Rothstein, Columbia University
Program:
2:00 - 3:00: Keynote Presentation:
Kim Nasmyth, University of Oxford, "Does Cohesin Concatenate Sister DNA's?"
3:00 – 3:30: Break
3:30 - 4:30: Student and Postdoc Presentations:
Travis Stracker, the Petrini Lab at the Sloan Kettering Institute, "The Role of the Mre11 Complex in DNA Double-strand Break Induced Apoptosis and Tumor Suppression"
Hiroyuki Takai, the de Lange Lab at The Rockefeller University, "The Function of Mammalian Tel2, Ortholog of the Budding Yeast Telomere Length Regulator"
Marsha Laufer, the Baer Lab at Columbia University, "Structural Requirements for the BARD1 Tumor Suppressor in Chromosomal Stability and Homology-directed DNA Repair"
Ragan Robertson, the Greene Lab at Columbia University, "Visualizing the Disassembly of Rad51 Nucleoprotein Filaments"
4:30 - 6:30: Poster Session & Reception
The greater New York metropolitan area has become a leading center for research on chromosome biology and function, as well as for research at the interface between chromosome integrity and cell cycle regulation.
The Genome Integrity meetings are a part of the Frontiers of Science Program at the New York Academy of Sciences, under which the Academy is starting a series of discussion groups in many frontier areas of science. Meeting four to five times each year, this group provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and form research collaborations among investigators active in the field.