Winter School 2011

1st Winter School of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR81
“Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies” Marburg-Giessen-Bad Nauheim-Rotterdam
at the Kleinwalsertal, February 19-24, 2011

Saturday 19.2.2011 

18:30  Dinner

Sunday 20.2.2011 

08:00-09:00  Breakfast 

MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair:  Sjaak Philipsen
Welcome at the seminar room 

• Till Adhikary (Müller) Different Modes of Transcriptional Regulation by PPAR-beta/delta
• Erik Engelen (Poot) Investigating SOX2 function in mouse neural development
• Christina Wink (Suske) SUMOylation of the histone binding protein L3MBTL2
• Maaike Moen (Poot) Transcription factor networks in neural stem cells
• Verawan Boonsanay (Braun/Zhou) Identification of epigenetic modifiers involved in muscle stem cell differentiation 

12:00-17:00 Open Discussions
17:30-18:15 Dinner

EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair:  Uta-Maria Bauer

• Sahar Esteghamat (Philipsen) The DNA binding factor Hmg20b is a repressor of erythroid differentiation 
• Katharina Schlereth (Stiewe) ChIPseq analysis of the oncogenic transcription factor ∆Np73 
• Anna-Maria Maas (Stiewe) •Np73: Regulation of replication & mechanisms of gene silencing 
• Judith Bergs (Brehm) Characterization of CHD5 
• Federica Federici (Baarends) Canine meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in combination with complete heterologous synapsis 
• Luca Caputo (Dobreva) The role of the Isl1-Ldb1 transcriptional complex 

Monday 21.2.2011

08:00-09:00 Breakfast

MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair:  Kerstin Wendt

• Widia Soochit (Galjart/Sleutels) The CTCF-family and relations 
• Philipp Bergmaier (Renkawitz) BORIS/CTCFL interferes with gene expression 
• Pavlos Fanis (Philipsen) Functional characterization of the novel chromatin factor Friend of Prmt1 
• Stefanie Riedl (Bauer) Novel interaction partners of the arginine methyltransferase PRMT6 
• René Reiner Nötzold (Bauer) Novel targets of arginine methyltransferase PRMT6

12:00-17:00 Open Discussions
17:30-18:15 Dinner

EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair:  Gergana Dobreva 

• Christina Rathke (Renkawitz-Pohl) The bromodomain protein tBRD-1 is essential for male fertility 
• Cheryl Maduro (Gribnau) Activation of X-Chromosome inactivation 
• Selma van Staveren (Gribnau) Regulation of Rnf12, an X encoded dose-dependent activator of X Chromosome Inactivation 
• Melanie Buxa (Renkawitz) Uni-and three-dimensional analyses of regulatory factors 
• Dorte Bohla (Renkawitz) RNAi screening for insulator (co)-factors 
• Andreas Lee-Hold (Bartkuhn) Computational analysis of higher-order chromatin structure by combined Hi-C/ChIPseq 

Tuesday 22.2.2011

08:00-09:00 Breakfast

MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair:  Willy Baarends 

• Yuri Mochkine (Verrijzer/vdKnaap) Histone chaperone NAP1 is required for sister chromatid resolution 
• Daphne Pontier (Gribnau) Xist regulation during X-chromosome inactivation 
• Fabrizia Carofiglio (Baarends) Stimulation of chromosome pairing by irradiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in meiotic prophase cells of SPO11-deficient mice 
• Sophie Kaiser (Renkawitz-Pohl) The induction and repair of DNA-strand breaks during sperm chromatin remodelling in Drosophila 
• Lalini Raghoebir (Rottier) Ectopic expression of Sox2 affects the developmental fate of intestinal epithelium 
• Evgeniy Chichelnitskiy (Dobreva) Epigenetic gene regulation in cardiac development 

12:00-17:00 Open Discussions

17:30-18:15 Dinner

EVENING SESSION 18:30-21:30
Chair:  Guntram Suske 

• Bert-Jaap van Belle (Houtsmuller) Stepwise dose response of damage sensor XPC in nucleotide excision repair 
• Tanja Haag (Dammann) Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressor genes 
• Divine Kulu (Philipsen) Functional analysis of SP transcription factors in hematopoiesis 
• Florian Finkernagel (Müller) Genome wide profiling of PPAR-beta/delta and RXR binding using ChIPseq 

afterwards: PI meeting 

Wednesday 23.2.2011

08:00-09:00 Breakfast

MORNING SESSION 09:00-11:30
Chair:  Rainer Renkawitz

• Jessica Zuin (Wendt) Function and molecular mechanism of cohesin-mediated chromatin looping 
• Inna Grishina (Schmitz) Mechanisms of gene repression by HIPK2 
• Friedemann Loos (Gribnau) Making sense out of anti-sense 
• Stefanie Gärtner (Renkawitz-Pohl) Chromatin reorganization in Drosophila spermiogenesis – from histones to histone degradation 
• Eskeatnaf Mulugeta Achame (Gribnau) Sequencing the Ellobius genome 

12:00-16:00  Open Discussions 
16:00-17:30  Workshops on Perspectives 
17:30-18:30  Dinner 
19:00-20:00  Torch-light procession 
20:00-late  Farewell party
 

Thursday 24.2.2011  

08:00-10:00  Breakfast and departure 

Download the program in PDF format here!