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Symposium Programme – Paris-Munich Epigenetics, April 9-11, 2025

Wednesday, April 9 - Friday, April 11, 2025

Amphithéatre Buffon, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Cité, 15 rue H. Brion,  Paris

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Symposium Programme:

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

15:00 - 16:30 Registration open – arrival of speakers & general participants

     Welcome drinks in Foyer

16:30 - 16:45 Welcome and introduction to the symposium by the Organizers

Session 1 – Small RNAs and Transposons

16:45 - 17:15 ANGÉLIQUE DELERIS (I2BC, Gif-Sur-Yvette)
                     Novel crosstalk and epigenetic switching between DNA methylation and H3K27me3 revealed at Arabidopsis transposable elements

17:15 - 17:45 SANDRA DUHARCOURT (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris)
                     Control of transposable elements by small RNA guided Polycomb in the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium

17:45 - 18:00 NICO ZAGHET (Institut Curie, Paris)                     
                     Charting the m6A-ome across retrotransposon RNAs in mammals

18:00 - 18:45 EMBO YIP Keynote lecture - DARIO LUPIAÑEZ (CABD, Sevilla)
                     3D Chromatin Organization During Metazoan Evolution

     Speakers' dinner
     Free evening in Paris for students/post-docs and other participants

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Session 2 – Environment and Chromatin

09:00 - 09:30 GERMANO CECERE (Institut Pasteur)
                    Small RNAs in Epigenetics Inheritance: Lessons from Worms

09:30 - 10:00 DAPHNE CABIANCA (IFE, Helmholtz Center Munich)
                    Uncovering mechanisms of metabolism-genome interactions in a whole organism

10:00 - 10:15 Markus Schmidt (Biomedical Center, LMU Munich)
                    Analyzing Inter-chromosomal transcription hubs of African trypanosomes using Smoother

10:15 - 10:30 Alejandro Edera (Université Paris-Saclay, Paris)
                     Template-free MET1 activity drives transgenerational methylation divergence through nucleosome-guided targeting

     Coffee break in Foyer

11:00 - 11:30 CHARO ROBLES (LMU Munich)
                     Systems Chronobiology

11:30 - 12:00 JONATHAN WEITZMAN (CNRS/Université Paris Cité)
                     Host-parasite interactions: an intimate epigenetic relationship

12:00 - 12:30 10 Poster Flash Talks (2.5 min. each)
                      (PhD students/postdocs)
                   
Light lunch in Foyer – "Meet the Speakers" for students/postdocs

13:30 – 16:00 – Poster session (including selection of poster prize)

Session 3 – Chromatin Organization and Reprogramming

16:00 - 16:30 ROMAIN KOSZUL (Institut Pasteur, Paris))
                     Sequence dependant activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in the yeast nucleus

16:30 - 17:00 IRINA SOLOVEI (LMU Munich)
                     The deceptive peripheral staining

17:00 - 17:15 Charlene Boumendil (IGH, Montpellier)
                     Biomolecular condensates at the nuclear pore basket maintain global chromatin organization

17:15 - 17:30 Elias Friman (MRC, Edinburgh)
                     Cohesin loop extrusion dynamics affect long-range enhancer-driven transcription

     Coffee break in Foyer

18:00 - 18:30 INES DRINNENBERG (Institut Curie)
                     Architecture and regulation of CENP-A-deficient holocentromeres

18:30 - 19:00 EVA HÖRMANSEDER (IES, Helmholtz Center Munich)
                     Maintaining and Reprogramming Cell Fates

19:00 - 19:15  Anaelle Azogui (Université Paris Cité, Paris)
                      ZBTB38: a reader of DNA methylation at pericentromeres

19:15 - 19:30 Camille Cornet (University of Neuchâtel)
                      Comparative Genomics to Unravel Chromosomal (In)-Stability in Butterflies

     Buffet Dinner, Mix & Mingle in Foyer

Friday, April 11, 2025

Session 4 – Chromatin Remodeling and Transcription Factors

09:00 - 09:30 RODRIGO VILLASEÑOR (LMU Munich)
                     New Kids on the Heterochromatin Block

09:30 - 10:00 CHRISTIAN MAYER (MPI Biochemistry, Munich)
                     The Gene-Regulatory Mechanisms Shaping Inhibitory Neuronal Diversity

10:00 - 10:15 Anupam Bhoi (Technical University of Dresden)
                     Conformational dynamics of the ISWI nucleosome remodeling enzyme

       Coffee break in Foyer

10:45 - 11:15 PABLO NAVARRO (Institut Pasteur)
                     Gene Regulation Through Mitosis

11:15 - 11:30 Maria Luce Negri (University of Trento)
                     The role of MLL4 in the chromatin framework: from the epigenome to 3D genome organization

11:30 - 12:00 KARL-PETER HOPFNER (LMU Munich)
                     Genome Information Readout by the INO80 Chromatin Remodeller

12:00 - 12:15 Poster prizes and concluding remarks

End of Symposium

 

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