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EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The Mobile Genome

October 07, 2014

EMBL, Heidelberg 2015-09-16 Wednesday 16 September - Saturday 19 September 2015 Summary & Aims Transposons are abundant in most genomes and constitute about 50% of the human genome. They are usually considered as genomic parasites, the mobilisation of which can cause harmful genetic mutations. Various mechanisms have evolved throughout the tree of life to defend genomes from the deleterious effects of transposition. Curiously, the past couple of years have brought about seminal discoveries showing that transposons also have functions essential to their host. For example, they play key roles in mammalian development, neurogenesis, and immune response. These novel findings suggest that transposons have widespread vital functions and call for thorough investigation in all genomes and organisms. The proposed symposium aims to facilitate the development of this emerging view by bringing together world-leading experts from diverse areas of biology including genomics, structural biology, microbiology, developmental biology, plant biology and neurobiology. Topics The meeting will stimulate interdisciplinary discussions on various key topics including impact of mobile DNA on genome structure and evolution novel advances in the mechanism of transposition and transposon defense developmental and physiological roles of transposition. These discussions will facilitate multi-disciplinary collaborations and greatly improve the common understanding of mobile genetic elements, as well as genome structure and function in general.

Organized by:			EMBL
Invited Speakers:			Keynote Speaker Nancy Craig Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Evan Eichler University of Washington, USA Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Dixie Mager Terry Fox Laboratory, Canada Confirmed Speakers Doris Bachtrog University of California, Berkeley, USA Mireille Bétermier CGM, CNRS, France Déborah Bourc'his Curie Institute, France Guillaume Bourque McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Canada Kathleen H. Burns Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Ronald Chalmers The University of Nottingham Medical School, UK Fred Dyda NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA Geoffrey J. Faulkner Mater Medical Research Institute, Australia Jose Luis García Pérez GENYO, Spain Isabel Gordo IGC, Portugal Henrik Kaessmann University of Lausanne, Switzerland George Kassiotis MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UK Jan Korbel EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Laura F. Landweber Princeton University, USA Jeanne B. Lawrence University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA Ellen Pritham The University of Utah, USA Phoebe A. Rice The University of Chicago, USA Azim Surani The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK William Theurkauf University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA Maria Elena Torres Padilla IGBMC, CNRS, France Didier Trono EPFL, Switzerland Olivier Voinnet ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ting Wang Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, USA Oliver Weichenrieder MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany Phillip Zamore University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

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Registration:			http://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2015/EES15-05/index.html
E-mail:			nicola.vegiopoulos@embl.de

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