Preliminary Programme

Day 1 - Saturday 13 October 2012
15:00 - 17:20	Arrival & Registration
17:20 - 17:30	Welcome and Opening Session Chair: Ruth Lehmann
17:30 - 18:20	Keynote Lecture: John Gurdon, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
18:20 - 18:45	Kim Nasmyth, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
18:45 - 19:10	Janet Rossant, University of Toronto, Canada
19:10 - 19:25	Selected Short Talk
19:30 - 20:30	Dinner
20:30 - 22:30	After Dinner Drinks

Day 2 - Sunday 14 October 2012
	Session 1: From Single Cell to Multicellularity Chair: Edith Heard
09:00 - 09:25	Stochastic processes in the development of pluripotency in vivo Takashi Hiiragi, EMBL, Germany
09:25 - 09:50	Epigenetic mechanisms in early mammalian development Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, The Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, France
09:50 - 10:05	Selected Short Talk
10:05 - 10:30	Melina Schuh, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
10:30 - 11:00	Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25	Ruth Lehmann, New York University School of Medicine and HHMI, USA
11:25 - 11:40	Selected Short Talk
11:40 - 12:30	Keynote Lecture: Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 2: Chromosomes and Chromatin Chair: Janet Rossant
14:00 - 14:25	Chromatin Dynamics in Vertebrate Germlines Bradley R. Cairns, University of Utah, USA
14:25 - 14:50	Remembering and Antagonizing Germline Fate Susan Strome, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
14:50 - 15:15	Chromatin dynamics and early development Geneviève Almouzni, CNRS Institut Curie, France
15:15 - 15:30	Selected Short Talk
15:30 - 16:00	Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:25	Epigenetic inheritance from the oocyte Déborah Bourc’his, INSERM, France
16:25 - 16:50	Edith Heard, Institut Curie, France
16:50 - 17:05	Selected Short Talk
17:05 - 17:30	Fast Track Poster Presentation Session
17:30 - 19:30	Poster Session
19:30 - 21:30	Dinner
20:30 - 22:30	After Dinner Drinks

Day 3 - Monday 15 October 2012
	Session 3: Programming and Reprogramming Chair: Bradley R. Cairns
09:00 - 09:25	Katrin Plath, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
09:25 - 09:50	Wolf Reik, Babraham Institute, United Kingdom
09:50 - 10:05	Selected Short Talk
10:05 - 10:30	Huck Hui NG, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
10:30 - 11:00	Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25	Peter W. Reddien, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
11:25 - 11:40	Selected Short Talk
11:40 - 12:30	Keynote Lecture: Angelika Amon, The Koch Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:30 - 14:00	Meet the Speaker Lunch
	Session 4: Context Matters Chair: David C. Page
14:00 - 14:25	Epigenetic inheritance of longevity Anne Brunet, Stanford University, USA
14:25 - 14:50	Yukiko Yamashita, University of Michigan, USA .
14:50 - 15:15	Hippo signal control of trophectoderm fates in preimplantation embryos Hiroshi Sasaki, Kumamoto University, Japan
15:15 - 15:45	Afternoon Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:10	Germline function in mice and men Marty M. Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
16:10 - 16:25	Selected Short Talk
16:25 - 16:45	Fast Track Poster Presentation Session
16:45 - 18:30	Poster Session
18:30 till late	Conference Gala Dinner with live music

Day 4 - Tuesday 16 October 2012
	Session 5: Renewal vs Differentiation Chair: Susan Strome
09:00 - 09:25	Mechanism and reconstitution in vitro of germ cell specification in mice Mitinori Saitou, Kyoto University, Japan
09:25 - 09:50	María Blasco, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain
09:50 - 10:15	Regaining heterochromatin totipotency during early development in mouse Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich, Switzerland
10:15 - 10:30	Selected Short Talk
10:30 - 11:00	Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25	David C. Page, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
11:25 - 11:50	Rafal Ciosk, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
11:50 - 12:15	Brian K. Kennedy, Buck Institute, USA
12:15 - 12:20	Symposium Ends
12:30 - 13:00	Packed Lunch
12:45	Buses Depart

Germline - Immortality through Totipotency

R. Lehmann, E. Heard, J. Rossant

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

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