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Meiosis
Gordon Research Seminar
Principles and Practice of Meiosis Across Species
June 2-3, 2012
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
Chair:
Michael Klutstein

Associate Chair:
Ofer Rog
Related Meeting Information
The Meiosis Gordon Research Seminar was held in conjunction with the Meiosis Gordon Research Conference. Please refer to the Meiosis GRC web page for more information.

The Gordon Research Seminar on Meiosis is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is meiosis, the specialized cell division used by sexually reproducing organisms to produce gametes or spores. The research topics presented will include cell cycle regulation, meiotic chromosome dynamics, mechanisms of homologous recombination, and biochemical and genetic characterization of meiotic genes.

Contributors
SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmCell Cycle: Meiotic Entry, S-phase And Progression
Discussion Leaders: Paula Cohen (Cornell University) and Abby Dernburg (University of California, Berkley)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pmSarah Sabatinos (University of Southern California)
"DNA damage checkpoint abrogation in meiosis"
3:30 pm - 3:35 pmDiscussion
3:35 pm - 3:50 pmLuke Berchowitz (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology)
"IME2 mediates a network of meiotic translational control in S. cerevisiae"
3:50 pm - 3:55 pmDiscussion
3:55 pm - 4:10 pmKathryn Kohl (University of North Carolina)
"Identification of a Novel MCM Complex Involved in Meiotic Crossover Formation"
4:10 pm - 4:30 pmDiscussion / Session Wrap-Up
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMeiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Discussion Leaders: Nancy Hollingsworth (Stony Brook University) and Yoshinori Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmArunika Das (Waksman Institute, Rutgers Uniiversity)
"Identifying mutations in the chromosomal passenger complex and associated regulators of spindle assembly in Drosophila melanogaster"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pmEris Duro (University Of Edinburgh)
"A proteomic study of the meiotic kinetochore"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pmSatomi Takeo (Stowers Institute For Medical Research)
"Functional analysis of the synaptonemal complex in homolog pairing and centromere clustering in Drosophila"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pmOfer Rog (University Of California Berkley)
"In vivo visualization of chromosome synapsis in C. elegans"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pmAlfonso Fernandez-Alvarez (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
"Nuclear movement is crucial for centromere release during meiotic prophase in bouquet-defective cells"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pmDiscussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pmMara Schvarzstein (Stanford University)
"Chromosome and centrosome inheritance during C. elegans male meiosis"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amBreaking And Trading Information: Recombination And Repair I
Discussion Leaders: Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute) and Gregory Copenhaver (University of North Carolina)
9:00 am - 9:15 am Joao Matos (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
"Cdk and Cdc5-mediated activation of Mus81-Mms4 promotes joint molecule resolution and efficient DNA repair"
9:15 am - 9:20 am Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am Julian Lange (Memorial Sloan-kettering Cancer Research Institute)
"Regulating the distribution of DNA breaks in mammalian meiosis"
9:35 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am Francesca Cole (Memorial Sloan-kettering Cancer Research Institute)
"Mouse tetrads: Isolation of reciprocal recombination products in mouse meiosis"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am Darpan Medhi (National Institute Of Health)
"VDE-catalyzed meiotic recombination resembles mitotic recombination"
10:15 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am Sarah Zanders (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute)
"How to cheat your sexual partner: a lesson from Schizosaccharomyces kambucha"
10:35 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 amAna María Leon Ortiz (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
"RTEL1 prevents recombination between heterologous sequences"
10:55 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmBreaking And Trading Information: Recombination And Repair II
Discussion Leaders: Paula Cohen (Cornell University) and Abby Dernburg (University of California, Berkley)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pmKei-ichiro Ishiguro (University of Tokyo)
"The REC8- and RAD21L-cohesins promote the initial homolog pairing in mouse spermatocytes"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pmDiscussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pmYonatan Tzur (Harvard Medical School)
"LAB-1 restricts Aurora B Kinase via PP1 upon entrance into meiosis to promote sister chromatid cohesion"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pmDiscussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pmJennifer Gruhn (Washington State University)
"The origin of sex-specific differences in human meiotic recombination"
2:10 pm - 2:25 pmWrap-Up Discussion with Mentors
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.
 
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