| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session |
| Discussion Leader: Gregory Copenhaver (University of North Carolina) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute)
"The Roles of Centromeric Association in Drosophila Female Meiosis" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Meiotic Chromosome Structure and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Sadie Wignall (Northwestern University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Arunika Das (Waksman Institute, Rutgers University)
"Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulates Spindle and Chromosome Organisation in Drosophila Female Meiosis" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Manuel Breuer (Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell)
"Two Nuclear Pore Proteins Promote Chromatin Detachment from the Nuclear Envelope in
Drosophila Oocytes"
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| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Ofer Rog (UC Berkeley)
"In Vivo Visualization of Chromosome Synapsis in C. elegans"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Mariola Chacon Rodriguez (The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
"Meiotic Nuclear Oscillations Are Necessary to Avoid Excessive Chromosome Associations" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Scott Rosenberg (UC San Diego)
"A Hierarchical Complex of HORMA Domain Proteins at the C. elegans Chromosome Axis" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Eris Duro (University of Edinburgh)
"Direct Evidence that Monopolin Mechanically Fuses Sister Kinetochores During Meiosis I" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Breaking and Repair |
| Discussion Leader: Francesca Cole (MD Anderson Cancer Center) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Hajime Murakami (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
"Temporospatial Patterning of Meiotic DNA Break Formation via DDK Recruitment to Replisomes" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Xiangyu Chen (SUNY Stony Brook)
"Zip1 Regulates Meiotic Recombination Through Cdc7 Dependent Phosphorylation" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Julian Lange (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
"Factors that Shape the Mouse Meiotic Double-Strand-Break Landscape"
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| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Carol Anderson (UC San Francisco)
"Designation of Meiotic Double-Strand Breaks as Crossover-Committed Sites Requires the DNA Damage Signaling Kinase Tel1" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Darpan Medhi (National Cancer Institute)
"Early Local and Global Factors that Determine Pathway Choice for Crossover Formation in Meiosis" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Mathilde Seguela (INRA)
"The Meiotic Anti-Crossover Activity of TOP3a Revealed by a Separation of Function Mutation" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Breaking and Repair (continued) |
| Discussion Leader: Neil Hunter (UC Davis) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Devanshi Jain (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
"A Phenotype-Based Forward-Genetics Approach to Illuminate Meiotic Recombination and Chromosome Structure in Mammals"
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| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Yumi Kim (UC Berkeley)
"A Kinase Cascade Acts at Pairing Centers to Mediate Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics and Feedback Control"
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| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Ross Rowsey (Washington State University)
"Examining Gestational Age and Recombination Rate: A Test of the Production Line Hypothesis"
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| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
