EMBO WORKSHOP 2005 - Istituto Pasteur

Chromosome Structural Elements/Rome 2005
02/10/05 Sunday
9-10:30am Session 5: De novo centromeres assembly and Chromosome Engineering
Chair: W.C. Earnshaw (UK)
9:00 T15- Brenda Grimes (USA), Segregation of human artificial chromosomes in mouse
cells.
9:30 T16- T. Voet, (Belgium), Optimisation and exploitation of a chromosomal vector
10:00 ST15- N. Mestrovic (Croatia), The MEL-172 satellite DNA library in parthenogenetic
meloidogyne species: conserved pattern of nucleotide variability along the monomers
11.30-11.00am Coffee break
11.00am -12.30pm Session 5 continued
Chair: Christine Farr (UK)
11:30 T17- H. Masumoto (JPN), Chromatin assemblies required for de novo human artificial
chromosome formation.
12:00 T18- Fiorentina Ascenzioni (IT), Human minichromosomes: expression vectors for
human genes.
12.30-3pm Poster session with Lunch
3.00-4.00pm Lecture: Giorgio Bernardi (IT), Chromatin structure in interphase nuclei of
vertebrates and the formation GC-rich isochores.
4:00-4.30pm Coffee break
4.30-6:00pm session 6: Chromosomes organization and gene evolution
Chair: Giuseppe Novelli (IT)
4:30 T19- M. Cremer (DE), Nuclear architecture in the light of conserved higher order
chromatin arrangements.
5:00 T20- Mariano Rocchi (IT), Centromere repositioning in evolution.
5:30 T21- Novelli Giuseppe (IT), The role of the nuclear envelope in genome organisation.
Closing remarks: Silvia Bacchetti and Giuseppe Novelli
2/10-2005 or 3/10/05 Departure
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