Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
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Lidia Arciszewska
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Programme
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome and Introduction
Francis Barr, Head of Biochemistry Department
David Sherratt FRS
Session 1 Sussex
9:20 – 9:30 Chair, Mick Chandler, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
9:30 - 9:55 Claudio Stern, FRS, J.Z. Young Chair of Anatomy, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL, London
An embryo detective on a quest to understand the molecular genetics of identical twins
9:55 – 10:20 Gordon Dougan, FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
Plasmids and transposons and a public health emergency
10:20 – 10:45 Lorraine Symington, Harold Ginsberg Chair of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University, USA
Mechanism and Regulation of DNA End Resection
10:45 – 11:15 Break
Session 2 Glasgow
11:15 – 11:25 Chair, Marshall Stark, Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, Glasgow University
11:25 – 11:30 Colin Stirling, President and Vice-Chancellor, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Video message
11:30 – 11:55 Stephen Bell, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Chromosome Archae-tecture
11:55 – 12:20 Stephen Kowalczykowski, Department of Microbiology and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, USA
If you can’t Twist, then you gotta Writhe
12:20 –12:45 Neil Johnson, Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
What’s wrong with maths? Biochemistry, Immunology, Covid and Beyond
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 3 Oxford
14:00 – 14:10 Chair, Bernard Hallet, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Belgium
14:10 – 14:35 François-Xavier Barre, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Use and origin of the Chromosomally encoded site-specific recombination (Xer) machinery
14:35 – 15:00 Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Replisome strategies to avoid hazards during genome duplication
15:00 – 15:25 Anjana Badrinarayanan, National Centre of Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Searching for homology: in vivo mechanisms of bacterial homologous recombination
15:25 – 15:55 Break
Session 4 Oxford
15:55 – 16:05 Chair, Kim Nasmyth FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
16:05 – 16:15 Russell Brown, Hawkins and Brown, London (Biochemistry architects)
16:15 – 16:40 Christian Lesterlin, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, CNRS-UMR, Lyon, France
Bacterial DNA conjugation in real-time
16:40 – 17:05 Dale Wigley FRS, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College, London
Machines that mess with nucleosomes
17:05 – 17:30 Jan Löwe FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Biological Nanomachines
17:30 – 17:35 Concluding Remarks
17:40 – 19:00 Biochemistry Reception
19:00 – Dinner at Trinity College (by invitation)
