Physics and Astronomy Department





4D Epigenome

Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, IVSLA, Venice, 3 - 5 October 2019

                                                                                       

Scientific Programme Legend:

EUTOPIA TRAINING SCHOOL CHROMOSOME ORGANISATION EPIGENETICS EUTOPIA TALKS CHROMATIN DYNAMICS

Start Time Thursday, 3 October Start Time Friday, 4 October Saturday, 5 October
8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30
Ralf Metzler U Postdam, Germany
"Geometry-controlled diffusive search"
Hans-Wilhelm Nuetzmann University of Bath, United Kingdom
&
Marco Di Stefano CNAG-CRG, Spain
9:00 - 9:40
AndrzeJ Stasiak Univesity of Lausanne, Switzerland
"TADs & chromatin supercoiling."
9:30 - 10:00
Jamie Hackett EMBL, Italy
"The genetics behind the epigenetics: how the developmental epigenome is sculpted"
Naouel Athmane MRC Human Genetics Unit at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
&
Giada Forte University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
9:40 - 10:20
Noam Kaplan Technion - Istrael Institute of Technology, Israel
"Explicit probalistic models of the 3D genome"
10:00 - 10:30
Fabian Erdel CBI Toulouse, France
"Heterochormating: Liquid droplet or collapsed globule?"
Elaine Groat CBI MRC HGU, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
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Hossein Salari Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, France
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break Coffee break
10:50 - 11:30
Davide Michieletto University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Physical principles of retroviral integration in the human genome"
11:00 - 11:30
Martin Howard John Innes Center, United Kingdom
"New models for Polycomb-based nucleation and spreading in epigenetic memory"
Cecilia Lövkvist John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
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Jam Smrek University of Vienna, Austria
11:30 - 12:10
Cristian Micheletti SISSA Trieste, Italy
"Hi-C constrained physical models of human chromosomes recover functionally-related properties of genome organization."
11:30 - 12:00
Andrew Spakowitz Standford University, U.S.A.
TBA
Karsten Rippe German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
"Dissecting nuclear organization and gene expression by light-induced chromatin recruitment"
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch 12:00 - 12:30 Chris Brackley University of Edinburg, United Kingdom
"A heteromorphyc polymer model for cis-regualtory interactions in gene loci"
Dave Thirumalai UT Austin, U.S.A.
TBA
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Final Remarks & End
14:00 - 14:40
Angelo Rosa Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy
"From chromosome territories to ring polymers: Physical properties of untanled polymer melts"
13:30 - 14:00
Ana Pombo Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
TBA
 
14:40 - 15:10
Leonid Mirny MIT, U.S.A.
TBA
14:00 - 14:30
Mario Nicodemi Univ. di Napoli Federico II, Italy
"Polymer Physics Predicts the Impact of Structural Variants on Chromatin 3 Architecture"
15:10 - 15:40
Cees Dekker TU DELFT, Netherlands
"Condensing is a versatile SMC that can produce a variety of DNA loop structures"
14:30 - 15:00
Agyris Papantonis University of Goettingen, Germany
"Spatial CTCF clustering: implications in ageing ad cancer"
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break 15:00 - 23:00 Tour of the Venice Lagoon with a visit to Torcello Island and dinner on board
16:10 - 16:40

Nick Gilbert University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Illuminating genome organization through integrated microscopy and sequencing"

16:40 - 17:10
Magda Bienko University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"An RNA-protein mesh reguates chormatin structure"
17:10 - 17:40
Antoine Coulon Institut Curie - CNRS, France
"Probing physical properties of interphase chromosomes with mechanical micro-manipulation"
17:40 - onwards POSTER SESSION
 
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA - DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY "G. GALILEI"
Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova - Italy e-mail: 4depigenome@dfa.unipd.it