Symposium Program
Symposium Program
Light Breakfast & Registration
9:00 – 9:50 AM | Light Breakfast & Registration
Opening Remarks
9:50 – 9:55 AM | UNC Charlotte R1 Status and Research – University Leadership
9:55 – 10:00 AM | DBS and CBES – Dr. Richardson
Morning Session
10:00 – 10:30 AM | Keynote Address
Speaker: Dr. Alan D. D’Andrea, Harvard University
Title: Inherited Genomic Instability
10:30 – 10:50 AM | Invited Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Greg Wang, Duke University
Title: Chromatin Deregulation Driving Oncogenesis
10:50 – 11:05 AM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
11:05 – 11:10 AM | Break (5 minutes)
11:10 – 11:30 AM | Invited Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Dale Ramsden, UNC Chapel Hill
Title: Mechanisms for Repairing Chromosome Breaks
11:30 – 11:45 AM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
11:45 – 12:00 PM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
Lunch & Poster Session
12:00 – 2:00 PM | Lunch and Poster Presentations
Afternoon Session
2:00 – 2:30 PM | Keynote Address
Speaker: Dr. Carl Wu, Johns Hopkins University
Title: The Biogenesis and Functional Dynamics of Chromatin Accessibility at Single-Molecule Resolution
2:30 – 2:50 PM | Invited Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Robert Duronio, UNC Chapel Hill
Title: Histone Genetics as a Tool to Study Epigenetic Regulation During Animal Development
2:50 – 3:05 PM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
3:05 – 3:10 PM | Break (5 minutes)
3:10 – 3:25 PM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
3:25 – 3:40 PM | Contributed Talk (Selected from Abstract Submissions)
3:40 – 4:00 PM | Invited Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Anne Elizabeth West, Duke University
Title: Chromatin Regulation of Neuronal Maturation
Poster Award Presentation
4:00 PM | Poster Award Announcement
Announced by Dr. Shan Yan and Dr. Xiaojun (XJ) Ren
Awards presented by Keynote Speakers
Closing & Social Hour
4:00 PM | Light Refreshments and Networking