SKMB Meeting 2014

September 10, 2014

Nouria Hernandez

Prof. Nouria Hernandez, UNIL
Prof. Alexandre Reymond, UNIL
Prof. Katharina Strub, UNIGE
Prof. Françoise Stütz, UNIGE

BÜHLER Marc, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH
CARMO-FONSECA Maria, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
CHODER Mordechai, Technion, Haifa, Israel
FRYDMAN Judith, Stanford University, USA
LEVINE Michael, University of California at Berkeley, USA
PRICE David, University of Iowa, USA
WOLIN Sandy, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

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The workshop on gene regulation is a one-day long, yearly event with two main goals: we wish to give the opportunity to researchers in Switzerland to keep abreast of the latest development in the field of gene regulation, and we wish to give the occasion to young researchers, specifically master and doctoral students as well as post-doctoral fellows, to hear and meet world re-known scientists, and to experience the excitement of scientific discussion. The meeting is organized accordingly. Thus: -the short length of the meeting (just one day) tailors it to researchers in Switzerland, who can travel in the morning, attend the entire meeting, and be back home in the evening. This format has the huge advantage of tremendously reducing the cost of attending the meeting, since there is no need for hotel stays. Moreover, registration is free. -We ask that the talks be 30 to 35 minute long, leaving 10 to 15 minutes for questions. This allows the speakers to give a comprehensive introduction to the specific problem they are studying, and to then describe their latest results at a comfortable pace, much different from the situation at many international meetings on gene expression where talks can be as short as 8 minutes! This format makes it easier not only for students, but also for experienced researchers who are not in the exact field of the speaker, to follow the talks. There is then ample time for discussion. Indeed, a characteristic of this meeting is the long question and answer period, which has on several occasions in the past years been quite memorable. To allow students to have time with the speakers, they will be able to register to have lunch with the speakers. This will allow them to interact with world-renowned scientists in the absence of any other professors, which is often intimidating for them.

University of Lausanne, Génopode Aud. C

SKMB Meeting 2014

Gene Regulation Workshop Wednesday September 10, 2014
Lausanne
Center for Integrative Genomics
Le Génopode - Auditoire C
Switzerland Program

10h00 Welcome coffee

10h30 PRICE David, University of Iowa, USA
          RNA polymerase II elongation control

11h15 CHODER Mordechai, Technion, Haifa, Israel
          Novel concepts in our understanding of gene expression

12h00 CARMO-FONSECA Maria, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
          Splicing kinetics in live cells

12h45 Lunch with the students

14h30 BÜHLER Marc, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH
          Non-coding RNA-mediated epigenome regulation

15h15 WOLIN Sandy, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
          Y stress? New roles for noncoding RNAs

16h00 Coffee break

16h30 LEVINE Michael, University of California at Berkeley, USA
          Transcriptional precision and dynamics in the Drosophila embryo

17h15 Catia ATTANASIO (University of Lausanne, CH)
          Distant-Acting Enhancers in Craniofacial Development

18h00 Apéro

Organizers:
Nouria Hernandez
Alexandre Reymond
Katharina Strub
Françoise Stutz

Information:

Free participation, however a registration will be required
Contact: staromics(at)cuso(dot)ch
How to get there?
Get the workshop poster

PhD students of StarOmics are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) with the reimbursement form to Corinne Dentan.

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