Cantoblanco Workshops on Biology
CHROMATIN AT THE NEXUS OF CELL DIVISION AND DIFFERENTIATION
Workshop
organized by Ueli Grossniklaus, Crisanto Gutierrez, and Ben Scheres
June, 30-July, 2,
2008, Campus of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Cell proliferation and cell fate decisions are tightly coordinated during development of multicellular organisms. Animals and plants independently evolved multicellularity. They use both conserved and unique strategies to control cell proliferation and differentiation. Animal cells limit their cell division potential once they have differentiated and failing to do so is, frequently, a primary cause of cancer development. Contrary to the situation in animals, organogenesis in plants is a postembryonic process that occurs continuously over the entire life span. In addition, plant cells can revert from a differentiated state and initiate organogenesis de novo. Furthermore, plants establish the germline from somatic cells in the adult, illustrating the high developmental plasticity of plant cells. In recent years, we have witnessed an enormous advance in our understanding of molecular basis of stem cell maintenance, asymmetric and symmetric cell division, cell fate decisions, and establishment of differentiated states. Chromatin dynamics appears to be at the regulatory nexus of these processes in both animal and plant cells. This workshop is aimed at gathering scientists working in both animal and plant model systems to discuss the latest findings and advances. Special focus will be given to the multiple roles of chromatin dynamics in regulating cell division potential, cell fate decisions and cell differentiation pathways as well as the molecular mechanisms of coordinating them during development. |
Speakers include:
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Fred Berger National Uni. of Singapore, Singapore (Republic of Singapore) María A. Blasco CNIO, Madrid (Spain) Giacomo Cavalli CNRS, Montpellier (France) Vincent Colot CNRS, Paris (France) Instituto de Neurociencias-CSIC, Alicante (Spain) Bruce Edgar Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Center, Seattle, WA (USA) Margaret Fuller Stanford Uni. School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (USA) Justin Goodrich University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (UK) Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland) Wilhelm Gruissem ETH Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland) Crisanto Gutierrez CBMSO, Madrid (Spain) Konrad Hochedlinger Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (USA) |
Steve Jacobsen Univ. of California, LA, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Thomas Jenuwein IMP, Vienna (Austria) Kristen L. Kroll Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (USA) Rob Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY (USA) Marjori Matzke Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria) Wolf Reik The Babraham Institute, Cambridge (UK) Gunter Reuter Martin Luther University Halle, Halle (Germany) José Carlos Reyes CABIMER-CSIC, Sevilla (Spain) Ben Scheres Utrecht University, Utrecht (The Netherlands) Ingo Schubert IPK, Gatersleben (Germany) Peter Verrijzer Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Doris Wagner University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
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Participants: No
registration fee is required but prospective participants must apply by
registering at http://www2.cbm.uam.es/chromatin/registrationform.htm.
To be admitted as participants, applicants need
to send a
short biographical sketch with the publication list from your CV. Preference
will be given to
those who
provide an abstract for a poster/short talk (see below).
Short
Talks & Posters: Abstracts submitted for posters will be judged for
thematic content to determine
if they
are appropriate for short talks. Please submit a one page abstract by E-mail to
registration-chromatin@cbm.uam.es
along with a short CV including a publication list.
The
final deadline is: April 21, 2008. You will be notified if you have been
selected as participant as well as for a
short
talk.
For
directions please go to: http://www.uam.es/presentacion/campus/defaulting.html
Sponsored by
Fundación Juan March