Program

November 23th (Chair: Daniel Jost, ENS de Lyon)

3-4 pm: Introduction 

Keynote speaker: Marcelo Nollmann (CBS, Montpellier, France)

Visualizing chromosome organization and transcription in single cells

4-4:40 pm: Vera Pancaldi (CRCT, Toulouse, France)

Network approaches to study chromatin interaction networks: from transcription to replication and beyond

4:40-4:45 pm: Break

4:45-5:00 pm: Short-talk: Peter Meister (Univ Bern, Switzerland)

Folding of the nematode genome by SMC complexes

5:00-5:15 pm: Short-talk: Maxime Tortora (LBMC, ENS de Lyon, France)

Liquid-liquid phase separation in nucleo: Insights from simple biophysical models

5:15-6 pm: John Marko (Northwestern Univ, USA)

Loop extrusion, chromatin crosslinking, epigenetics, and the geometry, topology and mechanics of chromosomes and nuclei

Conclusion Day 1

November 24th (Chair: Ivan Junier, University Grenoble-Alpes)

3-3:40 pm: Juanma Vaquerizas (MPI Molecular Biomedecine, Muenster, Germany) 

Chromatin Conformation in Development and Disease

3:40-4:20 pm: Dariusz Plewczynski (Univ Varsovia, Poland)

Nuclear phase condensation model with the single chromatin loop resolution

4:20-4:30 pm: Break

4:30-4:45 pm: Short talk: Martin Holub (TU Delft, Netherlands)

Genome-in-a-box: Unraveling the spatio-temporal DNA organization from the bottom-up

4:45-5:00 pm: Short talk: Shu Zhang (Univ Goettingen, Germany) 

The role of RNAPll in genome reorganization after mitosis and it links to loop extrusion

5:00-5:15 pm: Short talk: Amanda Camara (IPK, Gatersleben, Germany)

How to walk the line? Simulating a pathway for the condensation of centromeric units in holocentric species

5:15-6 pm : Luca Giorgetti (FMI, Switzerland)

Towards a quantitative understanding of long-range transcriptional regulation

Conclusion Day 2

November 25th (Chair: Nelle Varoquaux, Univeristy Grenoble-Alpes)

3-3:40 pm: Julien Mozziconacci (MNHN, Paris, France)

The 3D genome shapes the regulatory code of developmental genes

3:40-4:20 pm: Angelo Rosa (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Chromosome organization in interphase: Lessons from (ring) polymer physics

4:20-4:30 pm: Break

4:30-4:45 pm: Short talk: Nadège Guiglielmoni (Univ Libre Bruxelles, Belgium)

Hic2gfa: phasing assembly graphs with chromosome conformation capture

4:45-5:00 pm: Short talk: Cristiano Petrini (IFOM, Milan, Italy)

SAMMY-seq: a versatile method to study chromatin architecture

5:00-5:15 pm: Short talk: Polina Belokopytova (NSU, Russia)

3DPredictor: an algorithm for predicting spatial chromatin interactions

5:15-6 pm: Melike Lakadamyali  (Univ Pennsylvania, USA)

Visualizing chromatin organization and dynamics at high resolution

Conclusion Day 3

November  26th (Chair: Cédric Vaillant, ENS de Lyon)

3-3:40 pm: Ralf Everaers (LPENSL, ENS de Lyon, France)

Understanding the large scale 4D Structure of the Drosophila Genome during Interphase in the course of Development

3:40-4:20 pm: Noam Kaplan (Technion Univ, Israel)

Understanding 3D genome organization with explicit probabilistic models

4:20-4:30 pm: Break

4:30-4:45 pm: Short talk: Dusan Racko (Slovak Acad Sci, Slovakia)

Entropic competition between supercoiled and torsionally relaxed chromatin fibres drives loop extrusion through pseudo-topologically bound cohesin at low levels of supercoiling

4:45-5:00 pm: Short talk: Maji Ajoy (IIT Bombay, India)

The accidental ally: Nucleosomal barriers can accelerate cohesin mediated loop formation in chromatin

5:00-5:15 pm: Short talk: Anna Anchimiuk (Univ Lausanne, Switzerland)

Does chromosome folding require SMCs to bypass each other?

5:15-6 pm: Kerstin Bystricky (LBME, Toulouse, France) 

Real-time imaging approaches to decipher transcription modulated chromatin dynamics

Wrap-up