From Transcription to Clocks
The Department of Molecular Biology of the University of Geneva is delighted to announce a forthcoming Symposium: "From Transcription to Clocks" in honor of Professor Ueli Schibler. The one-day Symposium will take place in Geneva on April 12, 2016.
Scientific Program
Thanos Halazonetis
Director of the Department of Molecular Biology
Welcome Address
09:00 - 09:10
Emi Nagoshi
University of Geneva
New insights into the mechanisms of neurodegeneration
09:40 -10:00
Mitch Lazar
University of Pennsylvania
Rev-erb oration on a great occasion
10:00 -10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Kim Nasmyth
University of Oxford
How do SMC/kleisin complexes organize the topology of chromosomal DNA
11:20 -11:50
Susan Gasser
Friedrich Miescher Institute
When transcription is bad: avoiding replication fork and Pol II collision
11:50 -12:20
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
Steve McKnight
University of Texas Southwestern
A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
14:00 -14:30
Susanne Mandrup
University of Southern Denmark
Transcriptional programming and chromatin reorganization during adipogenesis
14:30 -15:00
Robert Roeder
Rockefeller University
Transcription activation mechanisms in animal cells
15:00 -15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Luis Lopez-Molina
University of Geneva
The role of the endosperm for the control of Arabidopsis seed germination
16:00 -16:20
Michael Rosbash
Brandeis University
The circadian clock and RNA binding protein targets
16:20 -16:50
Walter Wahli
Nanyang Technological University
PPARs as key regulators of metabolism
16:50 -17:20
Ueli Schibler
University of Geneva
A pleasant journey from spatial to temporal gene expression
17:20 -17:50
Steven A. Brown
University of Zürich
Closing remarks
17:50 - 18:00
Apéritif
18:00
Venue
The Symposium will take place at:
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
Boulevard Carl-Vogt 65-67, 1205
1205 Geneva