Planning

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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