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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Registration & coffee | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Condensin | |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome session | |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | Christian Haering: Regulation of X-Chromosome Gene Expression by DNA Loop Extrusion and Phase Separation | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Aurèle Piazza: Condensin loop extrusion properties, roadblocks and role in mating-type switching in S. cerevisiae | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Dana El Meouch: Nucleosomes Impede Condensin-Mediated Mitotic Chromosome Assembly in Vivo | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Jérémy Lebreton: Condensin II and Topoisomerase II mediate chromatin stability at common fragile sites | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break | |
| 16:10 - 17:40 | Cohesin | |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Madhu Srinivasan: Coordinated Cohesin Activities Protect and Position DNA Catenations to Withstand Spindle Forces | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Menelaos Voulgaris: Cohesin can tether two DNA molecules without ring entrapment | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Kota Nagasaka: How does cohesin mediate cohesion and chromatin loop formations? | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Henri Mboumba: The mechanisms governing cohesin mediated loop establishment | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Jules Rigal: Analysis of the cohesin ATPase cycle using the zebrafish model |
Thursday, January 22, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Cohesin | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Démi Van Gent: Differential release of looping and cohesive cohesin? | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Daniel Jost: Cohesion vs loop extrusion: investigating the dual role of cohesin | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Hollie Rowlands: Spatial regulation of cohesin loading in Schizosaccharomyces pombe | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Ethel Queralt: NIPBL disruption in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome alters cohesin/NIPBL chromatin association | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 - 12:00 | Meiosis | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Thomas Robert: Chromosome reorganisation in meiosis: a choreography for gametes formation | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Katja Wassman: Set for chromosome segregation in oocyte meiosis | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | William H. Gittens: Transcription patterns Holliday junction branch migration towards the meiotic chromosome axis | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Bacterial SMCs | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Virginia Lioy: Function and Regulation of SMC Complexes in Bacterial Management | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Florian Roisné-Hamelin: Mechanisms of topological DNA entrapment and obstacle bypass by the Wadjet SMC motor | |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Ivan Junier: A physically and topologically motivated model for bacterial chromosome structuring | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Jean-Charles Walter: The ParB-CTP Cycle Activates Phase Separation in Bacterial DNA Segregation | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Poster session |
Friday, January 23, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 3D Genome | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Maria Cristina Gambetta: Wiring regulatory elements to target genes | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Flora Paldi: Transient histone deacetylase inhibition induces cellular memory of gene expression and three-dimensional genome folding | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Naomi Schickele: Insulator-mediated regulations of enhancer-promoter interactions: the case of the Drosophila insulator protein Beaf32 | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Sebastien Bastide: Whole-Genome Duplication and 3D Architecture Enabled Regulatory Divergence in Vertebrates | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:10 | 3D Genome | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Marcelo Nollmann: Spatial genomics: impact of transcription in 3D chromatin structure revealed by chromatin tracing | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Sylvie Tournier: Condensin positioning at telomeres by shelterin proteins drives sister-telomere disjunction in anaphase | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Sarah Royle: Investigating the link between Chromatin Loop Extrusion and Compartmentalisation in Genome Organisation | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Olivier Gadal: Exploring model of chromosome in vivo : ribosomal DNA and nucleolus | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 3D Genome, Instability & Cancer | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gaelle Legube | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Vinciane Piveteau: Role of chromatin loop length regulation in limiting repeat-mediated rearrangements | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Giovanni Nigro: Control of chromatin association to nuclear pores by the S phase checkpoint during replication stress | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Stefano Mattarocci: How Telomeres Prevent DNA End Sensing by MRX | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Conclusion/End |
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