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June 23 (Tue) Plenary Lecture June 23 (Tue) 15:30 – 17:30 Registration Plenary Lecture: Chairperson: Shunsuke Ishii 17:30 – 18:30 Beyond the Double Helix: Reading and Writing the Histone Code Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University, USA Charles David Allis 18:30 – 20:00 Welcome Reception VIII June 24 (Wed) 7:00 – 8:30 Breakfast 8:50 – 9:00 Opening Remarks: Shunsuke Ishii Session A: Polycomb, Stress and Epigenetics Chairperson: Shunsuke Ishii, Giacomo Cavalli 9:00 – 9:30 A-1 Convergence of PRC2-dependent and independent mechanisms to establish transcriptional repression by PRC1 RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan Haruhiko Koseki 9:30 – 10:00 A-2 Polycomb proteins and nuclear organization in Drosophila Institut de Genetique Humaine, CNRS, France Giacomo Cavalli 10:00 – 10:30 A-3 Epigenetic Reprogramming of Germ Cells and Early Embryos Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Switzerland Antoine H.F.M. Peters 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 A-4 Epigenetic regulation of primordial germ cell-specific gene expression Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Japan Yasuhisa Matsui 11:30 – 12:00 A-5 Epigenetic regulation by ATF-2 family of transcription factors in response to various stresses Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Japan Shunsuke Ishii 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch IX Session B: Transcription Control and Chromatin Chairperson: Shigeaki Kato, Roland Schüle 14:00 – 14:30 B-1 Lessons learned from yeast about human leukemia Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA Ali Shilatifard 14:30 – 15:00 B-2 Molecular and Physiological Roles of Nuclear and Nucleolar Histone Chaperones Department of Infection Biology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Japan Kyousuke Nagata 15:00 – 15:30 B-3 Androgen receptor function is regulated by histone demethylases: Implication for prostate cancer. Universitäts-Frauenklinik und Zentrum für Klinische Forschung, Klinikum der Universität Freiburg, Germany Roland Schüle 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 16:30 B-4 Transcriptional Regulation through Non-Coding RNAs Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan Riki Kurokawa 16:30 – 17:00 B-5 The Role of Histone Modifying Enzymes in Gene Regulation. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan Shigeaki Kato 17:30 – 19:00 Dinner 19:00 – 21:00 Poster Session [I] X June 25 (Thu) 7:00 – 8:30 Breakfast Session C: X-inactivation and Genome-imprinting Chairperson: Hiroyuki Sasaki, Anne C. Ferguson-Smith 9:00 – 9:30 C-1 Silent and active LINE1 elements may facilitate spread of gene silencing during X-chromosome inactivation Mammalian Developmental Epigenetics Group, Curie Institute, France Edith Heard 9:30 – 10:00 C-2 Toward the understanding of molecular events underlying X-inactivation Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan Takashi Sado 10:00 – 10:30 C-3 The epigenome and small RNA repertoire in mammalian germ cells Division of Human Genetics, Department of Integrated Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan Hiroyuki Sasaki 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 C-4 Contribution of Retrotransposons to the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting and Placentation in Mammals Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan Fumitoshi Ishino 11:30 – 12:00 C-5 Function, regulation and evolution of genomic imprinting in mouse Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK Anne C. Ferguson-Smith 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch XI Session D: Heterochromatin Formulation Chairperson: Yota Murakami, Shiv Grewal 14:00 – 14:30 D-1 Genetics of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana National Institute of Genetics, Japan Tetsuji Kakutani 14:30 – 15:00 D-2 Epigenetic genome control by RNAi and transposon-derived proteins Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Shiv Grewal 15:00 – 15:30 D-3 Dynamic Regulation of Heterochromatin Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Life Science, Japan Yota Murakami 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 16:30 D-4 Chromatin assembly factors and the challenges of DNA replication and repair Institut Curie-Recherche, France Geneviève Almouzni 16:30 – 17:00 D-5 Dynamic Assembly Mechanism of Centromere Chromatin and/or Heterochromatin on Human Satellite DNA Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Human Genome, Kazusa DNA Research Institute (KDRI), Japan Hiroshi Masumoto 17:30 – 19:00 Dinner 19:00 – 21:00 Poster Session [II] XII June 26 (Fri) 7:00 – 8:30 Breakfast Session E: Transcriptional Control for Metabolic Pathway Chairperson: Akiyoshi Fukamizu, Mark T. Bedford 9:00 – 9:30 E-1 New aspect of abnormal tissue lipids in insulin resistance from quantity to quality of tissue lipids - A lesson from Elovl-6 deficient mice - Department of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism), University of Tsukuba, Japan Hitoshi Shimano Takashi Matsuzaka 9:30 – 10:00 E-2 Using Proteomic Approaches to Understand Arginine Methylation Department of Carcinogenesis, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA Mark T. Bedford 10:00 – 10:30 E-3 Regulation of glucose metabolism by pancreatic β-cell transcription factors Department of Medical Biochemistry, Kumamoto University, Japan Kazuya Yamagata 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:30 E-4 Regulation of energy balance by the CREB coactivator TORC2 in liver Cochin Institute, Endocrinology and metabolism department, Paris, France Renaud Dentin 11:30 – 12:00 E-5 Cross-talk regulation of arginine methylation and Akt-phosphorylation Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Japan Akiyoshi Fukamizu 12:00 – 12:10 Closing Remarks: Shigeaki Kato 12:20 – 13:20 Lunch XIII .
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