July 24

9-9:30am: participants arriving, registration, preparation

 

Genome

9:30am            Pristionchus pacificus - Highlights of a comparative counterpoint to Caenorhabditis elegans (by Christoph Dieterich)

10:30am           mGene: A Novel Discriminative Gene Finder (by Gunnar Raetsch)

10:30am           The annotation toolkit from the C. elegans Genome Browser (by Lisa Matthews)

 

Coffee break (11am-11:30am)

 

Expression and regulatory networks I

11:30am            Epigenetic mechanisms may underlie the formation of cellular memory of developmental history in C. elegans (by Sarah Hall)

12 noon            CES-1 and HLH-6 activate gene expression in different tissues through a shared and extended E-box (by John Reece-Hoyes)

12:30pm            DNA binding activity of LIN-54 is essential for proper function of the DRM complex in transcriptional repression and development (by Tomoko Tabuchi)

 

Lunch (1pm-2pm)

 

Expression and regulatory networks I (continued)

2pm                Detection of Embryonic Gene Expression Dynamics (by Thomas Burglin)

2:30pm             The Genome distribution and function of histone variant H2A.Z during C. elegans development (by Christina Whittle)

3pm                Comprehensive microRNA expression pattern analysis in the nematode C. elegans (by Natalia Martinez)                                               

3:30pm             Nature, nurture and gene regulation (by Itai Yanai)

 

Coffee break (4pm-4:30pm)

 

Images and phenotypes

4:30pm             Automated image analysis for high-throughput C. elegans screening (by Anne Carpenter)

5pm                A new framework for microscopy and image analysis (by Johan Henriksson)

5:30pm             Quantitative and computational  cell division pattern analysis of early embryos (by Shuichi Onami)

6pm                Systematic analysis of pleiotropy in C. elegans early embryogenesis (by Hui Ge)

 

July 25

Expression and regulatory networks II

9am                 RNA recognition by nematode embryonic RNA-binding proteins (by Sean Ryder)

9:30am              Dynamic and bimodal binding of the C. elegans dosage compensation complex (by Sevinc Ercan)

10am                An integrated C. elegans bHLH dimerization, expression and DNA binding specificity network (by Christian Grove)           

 

Coffee break (10:30am-11am)

 

11am               Whole genome tiling array profiles of specific C. elegans cells (by Clay Spencer)

11:30am            Nutritional control of gene expression during C. elegans L1 growth and arres (by Ryan Baugh)

12 noon            An intricate network of nuclear hormone receptors regulates fat and fasting in the nematode C. elegans (by Efsun Arda)

 

Lunch (12:30-1:30pm)

 

Interactome networks and models

1:30pm            Systematic analysis of genetic interactors of miRNA genes (by Funda Sar)

2pm               Information flow analysis of interactome networks (by Patrycja Missiuro)

2:30pm            Automatic inference of biological networks governing animal development (by Pengyu Hong)

3pm               Modeling C. elegans development—toward integrating classical developmental genetics with genome-scale data (by Hillel Kugler)

3:30pm            Automated on-chip rapid microscopy, phenotyping, and sorting of C. elegans (by Hang Lu)

4pm               Interactome networks (by Marc Vidal)