SCHEDULE

Oral live presentations: 20 minutes dedicated to the talk + 5 minutes for the Q&A part for invited speakers and 12 minutes dedicated to the talk + 5 minutes for the Q&A part for selected speakers.

Poster presentations should not exceed 3 minutes.

Schedule overview

Detailed Program

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Book of Abstracts

Tuesday, July 6th

14:00
14:15
14:45
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
18:00
18:30
19:00
20:00

Opening Session

Vincent Croquette, ENS/ESPCI/CNRS
Hervé Le Hir, IBENS
Smita Patel, Rutgers University
SESSION 1: Gene expression

Chair: Katrin Paeschke
KEYNOTE 1

Elizabeth Tran
Purdue University, USA

The DEAD-box RNA Helicase DDX5: from S. cerevisiae to cancer connections
Selected talks
Coffee Break
Parallel Poster Session

POSTER SESSION 1-A, 1-B, 1-C
SESSION 2: Mechanisms-Technologies

Chair: Dagmar Klostermeier, Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster
KEYNOTE 2

Taekjip Ha
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Light, CRISPR and DNA repair
Selected talks
Networking Session
SESSION 3: Gene expression/structure

Chair: Eric Enemark, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
KEYNOTE 3

Elena Conti
Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Germany

Regulatory mechanisms of the RNA exosome helicases
Selected talks
End of meeting

Wednesday, July 7th

14:00
14:00
14:30
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
18:00
18:30
19:00
20:00

Start of the meeting
SESSION 4: Mechanisms

Chair: Maria Spies, University of Iowa, USA
KEYNOTE 4

Tim Lohman
Washington University, St Louis, USA

Activation of SF1 DNA Helicases by Protein Accessory Factors
Selected talks
Coffee Break
Parallel Poster Session

POSTER SESSION 2-A, 2-B, 2-C
SESSION 5: Mechanisms-structures

Chair: Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
KEYNOTE 5

Michael Trakselis

Modulation of DnaB helicase conformation and contacts interrupts replisome coupling, creating genome instability
Selected talks
Networking Session
SESSION 6: Gene expression/mechanisms

Chair: Alicia Byrd, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
KEYNOTE 6

Dagmar Klostermeier
University of Muenster, Germany

Mechanisms of regulation of DEAD-box helicase activities
Selected talks
End of meeting

Thursday, July 8th

14:00
14:00
14:30
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
18:00
18:30
19:00
20:00

Start of the meeting
SESSION 7: Genome replication

Chair: Sua Myong, Johns Hopkins University
KEYNOTE 7

Shixin Liu
Rockfeller University, USA

Visualizing the action of SARS-CoV-2 and eukaryotic replicative helicases
Selected talks
Coffee Break
Parallel Poster Session

POSTER SESSION 3-A, 3-B
SESSION 8: Gene expression

Chair: Dominique Weil, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, CNRS-Sorbonne university, Paris
KEYNOTE 8

Katrin Paeschke
University of Bonn, Germany

DHX36 function at G-quadruplexes and its connection to stress response
Selected talks
Business meeting

Michael Trakselis, Elizabeth Tran, and Katrin Paeschke
SESSION 9: Genome replication

Chair: Kevin Raney, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
KEYNOTE 9

Maria Spies
University of Iowa, USA

Competition between SMARCAL1 and RAD52 at stalled DNA replication forks
Selected talks
End of meeting

Friday, July 9th

14:00
14:00
14:30
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
18:00
18:30
19:00
20:00

Start of the meeting
SESSION 10: Viruses-Structures

Chair: Wojciech Galej
KEYNOTE 10

Anna Marie Pyle
Yale University, USA

RNA helicases (SARS cov RNA structure)
Selected talks
Coffee Break
Parallel Poster Session

POSTER SESSION 4-A, 4-B
SESSION 11: Gene expression

Chair: Markus Bohnsack, Goettingen University
Coffee Break
Selected talks
Networking Session
SESSION 12: Viruses-structures

Chair: Timothy Lohman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine
KEYNOTE 12

Seth Darst
Rockfeller University, USA

Structural basis for helicase-polymerase coupling in the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex
Selected talks
End of meeting