8:30 to 9 a.m.
Registration
9 to 9:10 a.m.
Welcome
Richard Jove, Ph.D.
Director, Beckman Research Institute
9:10 to 9:20 a.m.
Overview of Morning Session
Binghui Shen, Ph.D.
City of Hope
9:20 to 10:10 a.m.
Mechanisms of Double-strand Break Repair and DNA Damage Signaling
Tanya Paull, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
10:10 to 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 to 11:20 a.m.
DNA Damage Signaling and DNA Repair — Focus on Foci
Junjie Chen, Ph.D.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:20 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
Genome Stability and the Control of Homologous Recombination
Simon Boulton, Ph.D.
London Research Institute
12:10 to 1:10 p.m.
Lunch
1:10 to 1:20 p.m.
Overview of Afternoon Session
Yuan Chen, Ph.D.
City of Hope
1:20 to 2:10 p.m.
Structural and Functional Insights into Non-homologous End Joining
Susan Lees-Miller, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
2:10 to 3 p.m.
Functions of Ubiquitin and SUMO in DNA Damage Bypass
Helle Ulrich, Ph.D.
London Research Institute
3 to 3:20 p.m.
Break
3:20 to 4:10 p.m.
Maintenance of Genome Stability
Andre Nussenzweig, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
4:10 to 5 p.m.
The ATM-mediated DNA Damage Response: Moving Between the Forest and the Trees
Yosef Shiloh, Ph.D.
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University