Chromatin Days 2025 Program

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Monday, May 26, 2025

09.00 - 09.10 Welcome by Peter Becker

Session Chair:

09.10 - 09.40 SANDRA HAKE, Institute for Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
                     The Ins and Outs and What-Abouts of H2A.Z

09.45 - 10:00 Gizem Kars, A01 Becker, Intersections in chromatin: the case of Domino and Xbp1

10:00 - 10.15 Vlera Fonda, A21 Uhlenhaut, The dynamic role of ANP32a in liver metabolic transitions

10.15 - 10.30 Hannah Lee, A03 Ladurner, Dissecting the ChREBP―LXR interaction and its role in regulating hepatic metabolism

10.30 - 11.00 Break

Session Chair:

11.00 - 11.30 ELISA OBERBECKMANN, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
                     Genome-wide in vitro reconstitution to study nucleosome positioning and chromatin architecture

11.30 - 11.45 Lorenz Spechtenhauser, A04 Korber, Molecular chaperones assist chromatin remodeling

11.45 - 12.00 Jessica Furtmeier, A26 Kurat, In vitro chromatin replication genome-wide

12.00 - 12.15 Atika Sajid, A29 Hamperl, Decoding the regulation of replication timing in yeast by single-molecule analysis of origin chromatin

12.20 - 12.40 Simona Nasiscionyte, A27 Bartke, Phosphorylation of origin-associated LRWD1 affects DNA replication and cell cycle in cancer cells

12:45 - 13.45 LUNCH

Session Chair:

13.45 - 14:15 SEBASTIAN EUSTERMAN, EMBL Heidelberg
                     More than the sum: exploring supra-molecular genome regulation

14:15 - 14:30 Alberto López-Francos López-Romero, A06 Hopfner, Structural insights into nucleosome and hexasome remodeling by the INO80 complex

14.30 - 15.00 FELIX MÜLLER-PLANITZ, Technische Universität Dresden
                     Monkeys in your droplets - Nucleosome remodeling in chromatin condensates

15:00 - 15.30 Flash talks (2.5 min each) IRTG members: Beyza Bozdag (A16 Imhof), Emilia Cepowska (A27 Bartke) , Deeksha (A35 Stricker), Jei Diwakar (Assoc. Bonev), Frauke Huth (Korber/Gerland), Gabriele Malagoli (Assoc. Colomé-Tatché), Agnisrota Mazumder (Korber/Braun), Namisha Rakesh (Assoc. Villaseñor), Drin Shabani (A04 Korber), Gabriela Stumberger (A17 Leonhardt)

15.30 - 16:00 Break

Session Chair:

16:00 - 16:15 Tobias Straub, Z04 Bioinformatics, Open Science Needs a Manual

16:15 - 16:30 Chondamma Bollachettira, Assoc. Villaseñor, New Kids on the Heterochromatin Block

16.30 - 16:45 Angela Russo, A11 Schotta, Interplay between heterochromatin and transcription factor activities

16:45- 17:00 Wihua Qin, A17 Leonhardt, Liquid-to-solid phase transition of HP1β condensates is essential for embryonic stem cell differentiation

17:00 - 17.15 Svetlana Maltseva, A15 Müller, Anchoring the Polycomb Repressive Deubiquitinase complex at target genes

17:15 - 17:45 SIGURD BRAUN, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
                     Shaping heterochromatin boundaries: From genetic screens to mechanistic insights into chromatin

17:45 - 17:55 Elizabeth Schroeder-Reiter, IRTG, Quo vadis, IRTG?

18:00            IRTG and Associate "Fun" Poster Session and Happy Hour.
We asked IRTG fun-poster contributors to venture away from conventional conference posters – to creatively combine a description of their doctoral project (conceptual idea, findings and/or state of progress) together with more personal aspects, like "ups and downs" experiences, favorite advice, favorite mistake, words of wisdom for future doctoral researchers ... Join us to see what they came up with!

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19:00-ish     BARBECUE BASH, Flash Activity and Party

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Session Chair:

09.00 - 09.30 NILS KRIETENSTEIN, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
                     Gene Regulation in 3D: Unraveling Chromatin Fibers and Genome Compartments

09.30 - 09.45 Rifat Reza, A33 Siegel, Loops, Boundaries and Beyond: Roles of cohesin and histone variants in T. brucei genome architecture

09.45 - 10:00 Lukas Huschet, A32 Robles, Protein nuclear dynamics in time and space and its modulation by metabolism

10.00 - 10.15 Stefan Stricker, A35, Using CRISPR to make the Chromatin dynamic

10.15 - 10.30 Sandra Nitsch, A20 Schneider, H4K16 acylations destabilize chromatin architecture and modulate transcription during metabolic perturbations

10.30 - 10.45 Ana Janeva, A30 Hörmanseder, AI to Ac: Digital Reprogramming identifies H3K27ac as an Epigenetic Barrier to Cell Fate Changes

10:45 - 11:15 Break

Session Chair:

11.15 - 11.30 Marlies Oomen, A24 Torres-Padilla, An atlas of transcription initiation reveals regulatory principles of gene and transposable element expression in early mammalian development

11.30 - 11.45 Jie Hua, A16 Imhof, Chromatin and Genomic Conflict

11.45 - 12.00 Lorenz Pudelko, A28 Cabianca, Epigenetic memory of early-life starvation stress

12.00 - 12.15 Maximilian Götz, A34 Stingele, The role of self-organising SUMO compartments in DPC repair

12.15 - 12.45 BORIS PFANDER, Technische Universität Dortmund
                     Damaged Chromatin – new views on DNA breaks and sites of stalled replication

12.45 Closing remarks

END of main meeting

12:45 - 13.45 LUNCH at the Mensa for IRTG members & Alumni

IRTG Satellite Session
Career Talks and wrap-up along guiding questions:

• How did we benefit through the SFB consortium?
• Favorite piece of advice during project?
• Words of wisdom for next cohort?

14.00 - 15:30 Career Talks, Q&A: Almuni Guests Nils Krietenstein and Elisa Oberbeckman, others tba

16:00-17:00 How to sustain the network? What have we gained? What do we need?

Drinks, snacks, OPEN END of IRTG Satellite Session