Central European Meeting on Genome Stability and Dynamics

Friday, May 13, 2011

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

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Program

• 8.30 - 9.15: Arrival, Registration & Morning Coffee

• 9.15 - 9.20: Welcome & Opening – Miroslav Chovanec

• 9.20 - 10.45: Session I (Chair: Peter Schlögelhofer)

  • 9.20 - 9.45: Petar T. Mitrikeski – Zpiga’s sight: Genome sustainability – lessons from recombination
  • 9.45 - 10.10: Cornelia Rumpf – Psz1/Mde4 complex is required to prevent merotelic kinetochore attachments
  • 10.10 - 10.45: Franz Klein – Fatal ties – the essential role of the Smc5/6 complex in meiotic recombination

• 10.45 - 11.15: Coffee Break

• 11.15 - 12.45: Session II (Chair: Miroslav Chovanec)

  • 11.15 - 11.35: Mona von Harder – Meiotic DNA repair in plants: The AtHOP2/AHP2 protein and its role in supporting AtRAD51 and AtDMC1
  • 11.35 - 11.45: Mihaly Kovacs – Overview of group activities
  • 11.45 - 12.05: Kata Sarlos – Temperature-dependent switch in the mechanochemical activity of RecQ helicases
  • 12.05 - 12.25: Mate Gyimesi – Basic homologous recombination activities can be performed by the minimal core of Bloom’s syndrome helicase
  • 12.25 - 12.45: Sona Hubackova – PML colocalizes with persistent DNA damage lesions in senescent cells

• 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch

• 14.00 - 15.50: Session III (Chair: Jozef Nosek)

  • 14.00 - 14.20: Karel Riha – How much telomeric DNA do we need for chromosome protection?
  • 14.20 - 14.35: Juraj Kramara – Yarrowia lipolytica: A new model for telomere biology
  • 14.35 - 14.50: Dominika Fricova – Linear mitochondrial genomes in yeasts: A paradigm for evolution of linear chromosomes and their telomeric structures
  • 14.50 - 15.05: Richard Kollar – Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance
  • 15.05 - 15.20: Vladimir Pevala – DNA-binding properties of yeast mitochondrial protein Mgm101
  • 15.20 - 15.35: Miroslav Chovanec – Psoralen-independent interstrand cross-link repair requires a novel complex containing Mph1, Mgm101 and MutS factors
  • 15.35 - 15.50: Dominika Maniková – Toxicity of selenium towards Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a role for recombinational and postreplication repair pathways

• 15.50 - 16.15: Coffee Break

• 16.15 - 17.45: Session IV (Chair: Lubomir Tomaska)

  • 16.15 - 16.30: Jaroslav Kozak – Rapid repair of DNA double-strand breaks in plants
  • 16.30 - 16.45: Mario Spirek – Towards rapid kinetics of human recombinational machinery
  • 16.45 - 17.00: Marek Sebesta – SUMO-PCNA mediates novel role of Srs2
  • 17.00 - 17.15: Peter Kolesar – Srs2 SUMOylation
  • 17.15 - 17.30: David Balogh – Characterization of the human PCNA ubiquitylation
  • 17.30 - 17.45: Szilvia Juhasz – Measuring the frequency of homologous recombination and random integration in human cells

• 17.45 - 18.00: Closing remarks – Karel Riha

• 18.15 - onwards: Beer at local pub

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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