Symposium Program
When | What | Who | Where |
Light Breakfast & Registration | |||
9:00AM-4:00PM | Registration | Organizing staff | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |
9:00AM-9:50AM | Light Breakfast | All participants | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |
Opening Remarks | |||
9:50AM-9:55AM | UNC Charlotte R1 Status and Research | Dr. John Daniels, Vice Chancellor for Research, UNC Charlotte | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
9:55AM-10:00AM | Welcome remarks from DBS and CBES | Dr. Christine Richardson, DBS Chair and CBES Director, UNC Charlotte | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
Morning Session | |||
10:00AM- 10:30AM | Keynote Address: CHAMP1 complex directs heterochromatin assembly and promotes homology-directed DNA repair | Dr. Alan D. D’Andrea, Harvard University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
10:30AM- 10:50AM | Invited Lecture: Biomolecular condensates in cancer | Dr. Greg Wang, Duke University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
10:50AM- 11:00AM | Contributed Talk: Mechanistic studies of nucleolar DNA damage response in genome integrity and cancer therapeutics | Dr. Shan Yan, UNC Charlotte | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
11:00AM- 11:05AM | Break (5 minutes) | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center | |
11:05AM- 11:25AM | Invited Lecture: Mechanisms for repair of chromosome breaks by end joining | Dr. Dale Ramsden, UNC Chapel Hill | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
11:25AM- 11:40AM | Contributed Talk: Arginine methylation of BRD4 by PRMT2/4 governs transcription and DNA repair | Dr. Wenjian Gan, Medical University of South Carolina | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
11:40AM- 11:50AM | Contributed Talk: Targeting Aurora A to overcome cisplatin resistance in HNSCC | Xin Li, PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
11:50AM- 12:00PM | Contributed Talk: Defining the function of cohesin and SMARCA5 in R-loop-mediated DNA repair | Elizabeth Irvin, PhD student at NCSU | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
Lunch & Poster Session | |||
12:00PM-2:00PM | Lunch | All participants | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |
12:00PM-2:00PM | Sponsors displays and discussions | Symposium sponsors | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |
12:30PM-1:45PM | Poster presentations | Poster presentations and judging | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |
Afternoon Session | |||
2:00PM-2:30PM | Keynote Address: Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single- molecule resolution | Dr. Carl Wu, Johns Hopkins University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
2:30PM-2:50PM | Invited Lecture: Histone genetics as a tool to study epigenetic regulation during animal development | Dr. Robert Duronio, UNC Chapel Hill | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
2:50PM-3:05PM | Contributed Talk: Cross- regulation through mutual modifications among histone H3 modifiers | Dr. Ke Zhang Reid, Wake Forest University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
3:05PM-3:10PM | Break (5 minutes) | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center | |
3:10PM -3:20PM | Contributed Talk: Self- clustering of three CBX2 proteins drives bridging- induced phase separation to promote facultative heterochromatinization of Polycomb target genes | Dr. Xiaojun Ren, UNC Charlotte | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
3:20PM -3:35PM | Contributed Talk: The SWI/SNF pathway regulates transposable element expression and provides a new therapeutic opportunity for pediatric tumors | Dr. Tara Doucet-O’Hare, Clemson University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
3:35PM -3:55PM | Invited Lecture: Chromatin regulation of neuronal maturation | Dr. Anne Elizabeth West, Duke University | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
Poster Award Presentation | |||
4:00PM-4:15PM | Poster Award Announcement | Announced by Dr. Shan Yan and Dr. Xiaojun (XJ) Ren & Awards presented by Keynote Speakers | McKnight Auditorium/Cone University Center |
Closing & Social Hour | |||
4:00PM-5:30PM | Light Refreshments and Networking | All participants | Lucas Room/Cone University Center |