Program

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Wednesday, 16.9.2009

13:00 Meeting of the Working Group GEN AG/1 „Evolutionsgenetik“
13:00 Meeting of the Working Group GEN AG/2 „Kleine regulatorische RNAs“'

 

15:30 Opening and Session I

16:00 Linda Partridge (London): Genetics of Ageing
16:30 Frank Grosveld (Rotterdam): Systems biology in the mouse
17:00 Steve Cohen (Singapore): MicroRNA functions: Insights from Drosophila Genetics
17:30 Marjori Matzke (Vienna): Genetic analysis of RNA-directed DNA methylation

18:30 Reception

19:30 Public Lecture
Peter Propping (Bonn): Der Mensch und seine Gene in der Welt von morgen

 

Thursday, 17.9.2009

Session II
09:00 Dusko Ehrlich (Jouy en Josas): MetaHIT, the EU project on human gut metagenomics
09:30 Barry Dickson (Vienna): t.b.a.
10:00 Andrei Lupas (Tübingen): The genetic basis of protein fold evolution

10:45 Coffee Break

Session Development
11:15 Elly Tanaka (Dresden): Molecular and cellular events leading to spinal cord regeneration in the axolotl
11:45 Thomas Klein (Düsseldorf): Regulation of endosomal trafficking and activity of Notch by the tumoursuppressor gene lethal (2) giant discs (lgd)

Short Presentations:
12:15 Thomas Widman (Dresden): Dpp and Wingless gradients direct cell shape during Drosophila wing imaginal disc development
12:30 Annegret Bördlein (Erlangen): SPOC1 (PHF13) is a stem cell factor in the testis
12:45 Wim G.M. Damen (Cologne): Hunchback functions as a segmentation gene in the spider Achaearanea tepidariorum

Session Plant Genetics
11:15 Gerd Jürgens (Tübingen): t.b.a.
11:45 Paul Schulze-Lefert (Cologne): Integrated immune responses to microbial infection

Short Presentations:
12:15 Andreas Weihe (Berlin): Biparental inheritance of chloroplast and mitochondrial genes and recombination of mitochondrial DNA in reciprocal crosses of Pelargonium
12:30 Karimi Ashtiyani Raheleh (Gatersleben): Arabidopsis Haspin - a kinase involved in cell cycle dependent phosphorylation of histone H3 at threonine 3?
 
13.00 Lunch Break

Session Neurogenetics
14:00 Eloisa Herrera (Alicante): The genetics of axon crossing at the CNS midline
14:30 Rüdiger Klein (Martinsried): Ephrin/Eph signaling in axon guidance and synaptic plasticity

Short Presentations:
15:00 Tanja Gempe (Düsseldorf): Behaviour and gene expression are affected by the genotypic composition of social groups 
15:15 Jochen Graw (Neuherberg): Role of Fibroblast growth factors Fgf9 and Fgf10 in mouse eye development

Session Evolution
14:00 Julia Zeitlinger (Kansas City): Evolution of transcription factor binding events in closely related Drosophila species
14:30 Manolis Dermitzakis (Geneva): Population genomics of gene expression

Short Presentations:
15:00 Andrew L. Hufton (Berlin): Deeply conserved chordate regulatory sequences preserve genome synteny but do not drive gene duplicate retention
15:15 Stephan Greiner (Potsdam - Golm): Oenothera - A model for non-Mendelian inheritance and speciation

15:30 Coffee and Poster Session I (unequal numbers)

Session III
17:00 Philippe Sansonetti (Paris): Invasion of the intestinal epithelium by Shigella: the Yin and the Yang of innate immunity
17:30 Julian Parkhill (Hinxton): Population genomics and high-throughput phenotyping: Applications of new sequencing technologies to microbial genomics

18:00 Presentation of the GfG Honorary Membership to Rolf Knippers

 

Friday, 18.9.2009

Session IV
09:00 Frauke Melchior (Heidelberg): Wrestling with SUMO
09:30 Chris Wylie (Cincinnati): Traveling through a changing landscape: the control of mouse germ cell migration

10:15 Coffee Break

Session Human Genetics
10:45 Veronica van Heyningen (Edinburgh): Making eyes: disease, development, evolution and environment
11:15 Klaus-Peter Lesch (Würzburg): Long story short: serotonin transporter in emotion, social cognition, and depression

Short Presentations:
11:45 Sigmar Stricker (Berlin): Truncating mutations in ROR2 cause brachydactyly type B1 by dysbalancing Wnt/beta-catenin and Bmp/p-Smad signalling during digit elongation.
12:00 Anja Naumann (Erlangen): A Distinct DNA Methylation Boundary in the 5´-Upstream Sequence of the FMR1 Promoter Binds Nuclear Proteins and is Lost in Fragile X Syndrome  

 

Session Cellular Genetic Mechanisms
10:45 Marina Rodnina (Göttingen): Mechanisms of RNA selection by the ribosome

Short Presentations:
11:15 Matthias Schäfer (Zurich): A novel role of Nrf2 in cytoprotection and differentiation of keratinocytes
11:30 Aria Baniahmad (Jena): Wildtype but not mutant androgen receptor inhibits expression of the hTERT telomerase subunit: A novel role of AR mutation for prostate cancer development
11:45 Thorsten Hoppe (Cologne): The Ubiquitin-Selective Chaperone CDC-48 Modulates Protein Homeostasis and Aging

12.30 Lunch Break

13:00 GfG member's meeting

Session Epigenetics
14:00 Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray (Essen): Establishment of chromatin domains in the yeast genome
14:30 Brunella Franco (Naples): The Oral-facial-digital type I syndrome as a model system to study ciliary function

Short Presentations:
15:00 Veiko Krauss (Leipzig): The stick insect Medauroidea extradentata shows DNA methylation patterns like a vertebrate
15:15 Nicholas Wagner (Essen): DNA and histone methyltransferase-overexpressing mice as a model for epigenetic diseases

Session Plant Genetics II
14:00 Juliette de Meaux (Cologne): Molecular underpinnings of life-history evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana
14:30 Rüdiger Simon (Düsseldorf): Signalling modules controlling the stem cell niche in Arabidopsis

Short Presentations:
15:00 Bhupendra Chaudhary (Greater Noida): Expression Evolution of Genes Duplicated by Polyploidy in Cotton (Gossypium)
15:15 Frank Kempken (Kiel): Mitochondrial RNA editing in Arabidopsis thaliana: in organello analysis and characterization of editing site binding proteins

15:30 Coffee and Poster Session I (equal numbers)

Session V
17:00 Tony Hyman (Dresden): t.b.a.
17:30 Otto Haller (Freiburg): Genetic control of innate immune responses against influenza virus

Award of the Gateff Prize

19:30 Party, Zoo Cologne

Saturday, 19.9.2009

Session VI
09:30 Irina Stancheva (Edinburgh): Establishment of DNA methylation patterns in early mouse development
10:00 Dominique Soldati-Favre (Geneva): Mechanisms controlling motility and invasion by the Apicomplexa

10:45 Coffee Break

Session VII
11:15 Andrew McMahon (Cambridge): A Regulatory Network Controlling Progenitor Maintenance and Commitment in the Mammalian Kidney
11:45 Ueli Grossniklaus (Zurich): Epigenetic Reprogramming of the Paternal Genome in Arabidopsis
12:15 Bruce Beutler (La Jolla): ENU mutagenesis in the analysis of host resistance in the mouse