| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Cell 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 pm | Sarah Sabatinos (University of Southern California)
"DNA damage checkpoint abrogation in meiosis"
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| 3:30 pm - 3:35 pm | Discussion |
| 3:35 pm - 3:50 pm | Luke Berchowitz (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology)
"IME2 mediates a network of meiotic translational control in S. cerevisiae"
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| 3:50 pm - 3:55 pm | Discussion |
| 3:55 pm - 4:10 pm | Kathryn Kohl (University of North Carolina)
"Identification of a Novel MCM Complex Involved in Meiotic Crossover Formation" |
| 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion / Session Wrap-Up |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics |
| Discussion Leaders: Nancy Hollingsworth (Stony Brook University) and Yoshinori Watanabe (University of Tokyo) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Arunika Das (Waksman Institute, Rutgers Uniiversity)
"Identifying mutations in the chromosomal passenger complex and associated regulators of spindle assembly in Drosophila melanogaster"
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| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Eris Duro (University Of Edinburgh)
"A proteomic study of the meiotic kinetochore"
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| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Satomi Takeo (Stowers Institute For Medical Research)
"Functional analysis of the synaptonemal complex in homolog pairing and centromere clustering in Drosophila"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Ofer Rog (University Of California Berkley)
"In vivo visualization of chromosome synapsis in C. elegans" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Alfonso 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 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Mara Schvarzstein (Stanford University)
"Chromosome and centrosome inheritance during C. elegans male meiosis" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Breaking 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"
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 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"
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| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Ana María Leon Ortiz (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute)
"RTEL1 prevents recombination between heterologous sequences"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Breaking 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 pm | Kei-ichiro Ishiguro (University of Tokyo)
"The REC8- and RAD21L-cohesins promote the initial homolog pairing in mouse spermatocytes" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Yonatan Tzur (Harvard Medical School)
"LAB-1 restricts Aurora B Kinase via PP1 upon entrance into meiosis to promote sister chromatid cohesion"
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| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Jennifer Gruhn (Washington State University)
"The origin of sex-specific differences in human meiotic recombination" |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Wrap-Up Discussion with Mentors |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
