| Thursday March 6, 2008 |
| 3:00 pm |
|
Registration Desk Opens |
| 5:00 pm |
|
Dinner |
Session I Plenary and Awards Lecture
Session Chair: Jim Davie, University of Manitoba |
| 7:00 pm |
|
Keynote Speaker Shelley Berger (The Wistar
Institute)
The complex language of histone and factor post-translational
modifications in genome regulation |
| 7:45 pm |
|
Merck Frosst Award Lecture |
| 8:30 pm |
|
Jeanne Manery Fisher Memorial Award Lecture |
| 9:15 pm |
|
Welcome Reception |
| Friday March 7, 2008 |
| 7:00 am |
|
Breakfast |
Session II Epigenetics and Genome Integrity
Session Chair: Linda Penn, University of Toronto |
| 8:15 am |
|
Anja Groth, Institut Curie-Recherche, France
Histone dynamics and DNA replication |
| 8:50 am |
|
Alain Verreault, University of Montreal
Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation: A new twist in the chromosome
cycle |
| 9:25 am |
|
Jacques Côté, Université
Laval
Roles of histone acetyltransferases complexes in genome stability
and maintenance |
| 10:00 am |
|
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am |
|
Karolin Luger, Colorado State University
Nucleosomes and their chaperones |
| 11:05 am |
|
Carolyn J. Brown, University of British Columbia
Human X chromosome inactivation: establishment of facultative
heterochromatin by the XIST RNA |
| 11:40 am |
|
Hugh Brock, The University of British Columbia
Do long non-coding RNAs of the bithorax complex repress by transcriptional
interference? |
| 12:00 pm |
|
Lunch / CSBMCB Board Meeting |
| 1:30 pm |
|
Poster Session I or Free Time |
| 3:00 pm |
|
Poster Pub & Judging |
| 5:00 pm |
|
CSBMCB Annual General Meeting |
| 6:00 pm |
|
Dinner |
Session III Nuclear Architecture and Function
Session Chair: Michael Hendzel, Alberta Cancer Board |
| 7:30 pm |
|
Gary Stein, University of Massachusetts
Organization and assembly of transcriptional regulatory machinery
in nuclear microenvironments: Implications for biological control
and cancer |
| 8:05 pm |
|
Roel van Driel, University of Amsterdam
Principles of large-scale chromatin folding of the human genome
inside the interphase nucleus |
| 8:40 pm |
|
Coffee Break |
| 9:10 pm |
|
David P. Bazett-Jones, The Hospital for Sick
Children
Functional interactions between chromatin and PML nuclear bodies |
| 9:40 pm |
|
Thomas Cremer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
Chromosome territories and nuclear organization: structural,
functional and evolutionary aspects |
| 10:15 pm |
|
Evening Reception |
| Saturday March 8, 2008 |
| 7:00 am |
|
Breakfast |
Session IV Chromatin Remodeling and Gene
Regulation
Session Chair: Juan Ausio, University of Victoria |
| 8:15 am |
|
LeAnn Howe, University of British Columbia
Novel mechanisms of targeting chromatin-modifying complexes |
| 8:50 am |
|
Jerry L. Workman, Stowers Institute for Medical
Research
Protein complexes that modify chromatin for transcription |
| 9:25 am |
|
Mike Schultz, University of Alberta
Metabolic regulation of global Histone acetylation in yeast |
| 10:00 am |
|
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am |
|
Craig Peterson, University of Massachusetts
Medical School
Chromatin remodeling machines |
| 11:05 am |
|
Luc Gaudreau, Université de Sherbrooke
Regulation of gene expression by Histone H2A.Z |
| 11:40 am |
|
Rod Bremner, University of Toronto
Lessons on remote control from the interferon transcriptional
cascade |
| 12:00 pm |
|
Lunch |
| 1:30 pm |
|
Poster Session II or Free Time |
| 3:00 pm |
|
Poster Pub & Judging |
Session V Chromatin Networks, Epigenetics
and Oncogenesis
Session Chair: Mark Glover, University of Alberta |
| 5:15 pm |
|
Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School
Role of RNAi in heterochromatin assembly and function |
| 5:50 pm |
|
Peter Cheung, Ontario Cancer Institute
The epigenetic functions of mono-ubiquitylated H2A.Z |
| 6:25 pm |
|
Coffee Break |
| 6:55 pm |
|
Trevor Archer, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, North Carolina
Regulating hormone activated transcription via chromatin and
epigenetics |
| 7:30 pm |
|
Ali Shilatifard, Stowers Institute for Medical
Research, Missouri
Translating histone crosstalk |
| 8:30 |
|
CSBMCB Banquet and Awards Presentations |
| Sunday March 9, 2008 |
| 7:00 am |
|
Breakfast |
Session VI Chromatin Modifications, Associated
Proteins and Disease
Session Chair: Xiang-Jiao Yang, McGill University |
| 8:15 am |
|
Karl Riabowol, University of Calgary
ING tumour suppressor proteins target and regulate chromatin
modifying complexes |
| 8:50 am |
|
Vicky Richon, Merck Research Laboratories,
Boston
Progress in the development of HDAC inhibitors for the treatment
of cancer |
| 9:25 am |
|
Craig Mizzen, University of Illinois
Certain and progressive methylation of H4 at lysine 20 |
| 10:00 am |
|
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am |
|
Jinrong Min, University of Toronto
Division of labor among human MBT repeat proteinsv |
| 11:05 am |
|
Christopher Wynder, McMaster University
The role of histone demethylation on stem cell properties |
| 11:40 am |
|
Michael Bustin, National Cancer Institute,
Maryland
The epigenetic function of chromatin architectural proteins
|
| 12:00 pm |
|
Lunch and Departure |