GenomeStability&Dynamics

Arrival, Registration & Morning Coffee
Welcome & Opening (Miroslav Chovanec)
Session I (Chair: Peter Schloegelhofer)
Petar T. Mitrikeski - Zgaga’s eight: Genome sustainability – lessons from recombination
Cornelia Rumpf (the Gregan group) - Pcs1/Mde4 complex is required to prevent merotelic kinetochore attachments
Franz Klein - Fatal ties - the essential role of the Smc5/6 complex in meiotic recombination.
Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Miroslav Chovanec)
Mona von Harder (the Schloegelhofer group) - Meiotic DNA repair in plants: The AtHOP2/AHP2 protein and its role in supporting AtRAD51 and AtDMC1
Mihaly Kovacs - Overview of group activities
Kata Sarlos (the Kovacs group) - Temperature-dependent switch in the mechanochemical activity of RecQ helicases Mate Gyimesi (the Kovacs group) - Basic homologous recombination activities can be performed by the minimal core of Bloom's syndrome helicase
Sona Hubackova (the Hodny group) - PML colocalizes with persistent DNA damage lesions in senescent cells Lunch
Session III (Chair: Jozef Nosek)
Karel Riha - How much telomeric DNA do we need for chromosome protection?
Juraj Kramara (the Tomaska&Nosek group) - Yarrowia lipolytica: A new model for telomere biology
Dominika Fricova (the Tomaska&Nosek group) - Linear mitochondrial genomes in yeasts: A paradigm for evolution of linear chromosomes and their telomeric structures
Richard Kollar - Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance
Vladimir Pevala (the Kutejova group) - DNA-binding properties of yeast mitochondrial protein Mgm101
Miroslav Chovanec - Pso2-independent interstrand cross-link repair requires a novel complex containing Mph1, Mgm101 and MutS factors
Dominika Manikova (the Chovanec group) - Toxicity of selenium towards Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a role for recombinational and postreplication repair pathways
Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Lubomir Tomaska)
Jaroslav Kozak (the Angelis group) - Rapid repair of DNA double-strand breaks in plants
Mario Spirek (the Krejci group) - Towards rapid kinetics of human recombinational machinery
Marek Sebesta (the Krejci group) - SUMO-PCNA mediates novel role of Srs2
Peter Kolesar (the Krejci group) - Srs2 SUMOylation
David Balogh (the Haracska group) - Characterization of the human PCNA ubiquitylation
Szilvia Juhasz (the Haracska group) - Measuring the frequency of homologous recombination and random integration in human cells Closing remarks (Karel Riha)
Beer at local pub

Central European Meeting on
Genome Stability and Dynamics

Friday, May 13, 2011

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
Mlynska dolina B-1 / Amos, 842 15 Bratislava 4, Slovakia

Program:

8.30 - 9.15
9.15 - 9.20
9.20-10.45
9.20-9.45

9.45-10.15

10.15-10.45

10.45-11.15
11.15-12.45
11.15-11.35

11.35-11.45
11.45-12.05

12.05-12.25

12.25-12.45

13.00-14.00
14.00-15.50
14.00-14.20
14.20-14.35

14.35-14.50

14.50-15.05

15.05-15.20

15.20-15.35

15.35-15.50

15.50-16.15
16.15-17.45
16.15-16.30

16.30-16.45

16.45-17.00
17.00-17.15
17.15-17.30

17.30-17.45

17.45-18.00
18.15-onwards

Organizers:

Miroslav Chovanec (miroslav.chovanec@savba.sk)
Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Lubomir Tomaska (tomaska@fns.uniba.sk)
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Martina Nebohacova (nebohacova@fns.uniba.sk) & Jozef Nosek (nosek@fns.uniba.sk)
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

The meeting is supported by:

Bratislava Biocenter Cancer Research Institute Comenius University NATURA o.z.

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