Program

CIG Symposium 2009
DNA Repair and Human Health
Lausanne, June 10 and 11

June 10, 2009, Morning	Chair: Andrzej Stasiak
8:50-9:00	Nouria Hernandez CIG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Welcoming remarks
9:00-9:50	Philip C. Hanawalt Stanford University, USA Multiple mechanisms for genomic maintenance
9:50-10:30	Edward Egelman University of Virginia, USA Nucleoprotein complexes: from DNA segregation to recombination
10:30-11:00	Coffee break + Poster installation
11:00-11:40	Marco Foiani Instituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milano, Italy Mechanisms protecting the integrity of replicating chromosomes
11:40-12:00	Selected talk from the submitted abstracts Barbara van Loon University of Zurich, Switzerland MUTYH and DNA polymerase λ cooperate in a novel long patch base excision repair of 8-oxo-guanine
12:00-12:40	Josef Jiricny Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland Interference of base- and mismatch repair in somatic hypermutation
12:40-13:30	Buffet Lunch
13:30-14:30	POSTER SESSION

June 10, 2009, Afternoon	Chair: Liliane Michalik
14:30-15:10	Maria Jasin Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Repair of chromosome breaks and human disease
15:10-15:30	Selected talk from the submitted abstracts Vincent Dion Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland The mobility of spontaneous and DNA damage induced Rad52 foci
15:30-16:10	Thanos Halazonetis University of Geneva, Switzerland Mechanisms of recruitment of DNA damage response proteins to sites of DNA breaks
16:10-16:40	Coffee break
16:40-17:20	Joachim Lingner EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Telomeres and telomerase: RNA-dependent machines at chromosome ends
17:20-18:00	Marìa A. Blasco Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain Role of telomeres in cancer and aging
18:00-19:00	Apéro & POSTER SESSION

CIG Symposium 2009
DNA Repair and Human Health
Lausanne, June 10 and 11

June 11, 2009	Chair: Winship Herr
9:00-9:40	Angelos Constantinou University of Lausanne, Switzerland FANCM ensures the progression of replication forks
9:40-10:00	Selected talk from the submitted abstracts Hélène Gaillard University of Seville, Spain Genome-Wide Analysis of Factors Affecting Transcription Elongation and DNA Repair: a New Role for PAF and Ccr4-Not in Transcription-Coupled Repair
10:00-10:40	Lee Zou Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA Sensing and signaling of DNA damage by the checkpoint kinases ATR and ATM
10:40-11:10	Coffee break + POSTERS
11:10-11:50	Errol C. Friedberg UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA Tolerance of DNA damage by translesion DNA synthesis
11:50-12:10	Selected talk from the submitted abstracts Peter Droge Nanyang Technological University, Singapore HMGA2 exhibits dRP/AP site cleavage activity and protects cancer cells from DNA-damage-induced cytotoxicity during chemotherapy
12:10-12:50	Jan H. Hoeijmakers Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands DNA damage problem in the context of cancer, aging and longevity
12:50-13:00	Closing remarks

NB : Dr Leona D. Samson was initially scheduled to be a speaker at the CIG symposium 2009, but an important event prevented her to come to the conference.