Gene Regulation Workshop

Regulation from DNA to Protein

Wednesday September 6, 2017

University of Lausanne - Génopode C

Lausanne, Switzerland

Register here (deadline 30 August)

The Gene Regulation Workshop is a one day meeting in Lausanne featuring internationally recognized scientists that work on molecular mechanisms controlling transcriptional and post-transcriptional responses in gene expression to cell-type specific, developmental or environmental cues.

Speakers and Titles, 2017

9:30-10:00

Welcome Coffee

10:00-10:45

Rachel Green

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, USA

The role of rescue in ribosome homeostasis

10:45-11:30

Michelle Wang

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Mechanical Biochemistry from DNA unzipping

11:30-12:15

Vincent Colot

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Epigenetic control of transposable elements and heritable phenotypic variation

12:15-14:15

Lunch

14:15-15:00

Lori Passmore

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK

Mechanistic insights into mRNA polyadenylation

15:00-15:45

Eileen Furlong

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Genome regulation during developmental transitions: Generating robustness and precision

15:45-16:30

Gerard Evan

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Toggling large scale genetic programmes with Myc and RAS

16:30

Apéro

Organizers

Prof. Martine Collart, UNIGE
Prof. Christian Fankhauser, UNIL
Prof. Winship Herr, UNIL
Prof. Thomas Schalch, UNIGE
Prof. David Shore, UNIGE

Past Meetings

Future Meetings Planned

September 5, 2018
September 4, 2019
September 2, 2020