Programme

Sunday, 23 June

18:30	Registration and “Welcome cocktail” in the meeting place “Rettorato” (Piazzetta Tancredi, 7)
20:30	Free dinner in Lecce

Monday, 24 June

9:00-10:00	Registration, welcome and opening of the meeting
	Chair: Maurizio Gatti
10:00-10:30	Kent Golic The control of chromosome healing in Drosophila melanogaster
10:40-11:10	Benjamin Loppin Telomere protection in the Drosophila male germline
11:20-11:40	Coffee Break
11:40-12:10	Gianni Cenci Drosophila Separase interacts with HP1 to protect telomeres
12:20-12:50	Yikang Rong Coordination of transposon expression with DNA replication facilitates end-targeting of telomeric retrotransposons in Drosophila
13:00-15:00	Lunch
	Chair: Kent Golic
15:00-15:30	Maurizio Gatti Organization and evolution of at Drosophila telomeres: the roles of terminin and non-terminin proteins
15:40-16:10	Harmit Malik Genetic innovations are essential for Drosophila centromeric proteins
16:20-16:50	Shaila Kotadia Centromere-independent accumulation of cohesin at heterochromatin sites is associated with chromosome stretching during anaphase
17:00-17:20	Coffee Break
17:30-19:30	Guided tour of Lecce, the city of the Baroque
19:30	Departure by bus to “L’Astore Masseria” - Cutrofiano; wine tour and wine tasting

Tuesday, 25 June

	Chair: Fanglin Sun
9:30-10:00	Igor Zhimulev Molecular and genetic organization of banding pattern in Drosophila melanogaster chromosomes
10:10-10:40	Stepan Belyakin Putative mechanism of the SUUR protein action in late replicating regions of Drosophila genome
10:50-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Eduardo Gorab T14 repeats of Rhynchosciara americana (Diptera : Sciaridae) and their relationship to a repeat under characterization in the heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster
11:50-12:20	Terry Orr-Weaver Repression of DNA replication origin activation and fork progression
12:30-15:00	Lunch
	Chair: Davide Corona
15:00-15:30	Aida de la Cruz The molecular basis of Odysseus-mediated hybrid sterility
15:40-16:10	Wolfgang J. Miller Beyond orthodox selfish genetic elements – the case of endosymbiont Wolbachia in Drosophila development, sexual behaviour and speciation
16:20-16:45	Coffee Break and POSTER SESSION
18:30	Free dinner in Lecce

Wednesday, 26 June

	Chair: Gunter Reuter
9:30-10:00	Kami Ahmad High resolution analysis of Polycomb Response Elements defines epigenetic states
10:10-10:40	Francois Karch Multiple Layers of Complexity in the Regulation of the Bithorax Complex in Drosophila
10:50-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Patrizio Dimitri The epigenetic role of Bucentaur (BCNT) protein family in Drosophila
11:50-12:20	Aleksei S. Shatskikh Cis- and trans-inactivation caused by eu-heterochromatin rearrangement
12:30-13:00	Davide Corona trans-Activation: A New RNA Mediated Mechanism to Inherit Epigenetic Memory
13:10-15:00	Lunch
16:30	Round Trip in Otranto and Dinner in a typical “agriturismo” with a“pizzica”group ( a popular dance of Salento

Thursday, 27 June

	Chair: Kami Amhad
10:00-10:30	Gunter Reuter The control of chromatin differentiation in Drosophila germ line stem cells
10:40-11:10	Mathias Walther SU(VAR)2-1 a new abundant chromatin protein
11:20-11:40	Coffee Break
11:40-12:10	Lina Lundberg HP1a (Heterochromatin Protein 1a), Su(var)3-9 and SETDB1 stimulate or repress gene expression depending on genomic position, gene length and expression pattern in Drosophila melanogaster
12:20-12:50	Jorgen Johansen H3S10 phosphorylation by the JIL-1 kinase regulates heterochromatin, H3K9me2 distribution and gene expression in Drosophila
13:00-15:00	Lunch
	Chair: Igor Zhimulev
15:00-15:30	Serafin Colmenares KDM4A regulates heterochromatin structure required for genome stability
15:40-16:10	Keith Maggert Investigating the connection between diet, epigenetics, and ribosomal DNA
16:20-16:40	Coffee Break
17:20-17:50	Arpita Sarkar Drosophila MOF maintains genomic stability through interaction with heterochromatin factors
18:00-18:30	Jeff Sekelsky Functions of Bloom syndrome helicase in repairing DNA damage in heterochromatin
18:40	Free dinner in Lecce

Friday, 28 June

	Chair: Sergio Pimpinelli
9:30-10:00	Bernardo Lemos Evolutionary and functional epigenomics of the Drosophila Y chromosome
10:10-10:40	Mathias Schaefer tRNA fragmentation negatively affects siRNA pathways
10:50-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:40	Valeria Specchia dFMR1, the Drosophila ortholog of the Fragile-X gene in humans, has a role in the piRNA-mediated silencing of repetitive sequences
11:50-12:20	Chantal Vaury Regulatory properties of a piRNA cluster, the flamenco locus from Drosophila melanogaster
12:30-15:00	Lunch
	Chair: Yikang Rong
15:00-15:30	Stefan Ronserray piRNAs and paramutation in Drosophila
15:40-16:10	Sergio Pimpinelli Environmental stress, transposons and evolution
20:00	Farewell Banquet at the “Torre del Parco”

Saturday, 29 June

9:30-10:30	Discussion groups Greetings
10:30	End of the conference

Major topics:

Position effect variegation and chromatin structure
RNAi and heterochromatin
Chromatin structure and gene expression
Heterochromatic genes
Centromeres
Telomeres
Heterochromatin and chromosome pairing
Euchromatin/heterochromatin interaction system
Highly and middle repetitive DNA and heterochromatin
Heterochromatic genome sequencing

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