Program ScheduleUpdated as 13 Mar 2018 Venue: IAS2042, 2/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST19 Mar | 20 Mar | 21 Mar | 22 Mar | 23 Mar 19 Mar (Mon)
20 Mar (Tue)
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Mechanism and Regulation Elongation, Catalysis, and Fidelity Session Chair: Elizabeth Campbell (The Rockefeller University) |
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| 09:00-09:40 |
"Sequence-dependent Control of RNA Polymerase Translocation" Georgi Belogurov (University of Turku) |
| 09:40-10:20 |
"Roles of a Half-translocated Intermediate, RNAP Swiveling, and Nascent RNA Structure in Transcriptional Pausing" Robert Landick (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room) |
| 10:50-11:30 |
"Mechanism of RfaH Anti-pausing and Antitermination" Irina Artsimovitch (Ohio State University) |
| 11:30-12:10 |
"Quantitative Analysis of the Transcription Accuracy of RNA Polymerase II via a Multi-scale Approach Tightly Integrating
Simulation and Experiment" Xuhui Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch Break |
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Transcription on Chromatin Session Chair: Toyotaka Ishibashi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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| 14:00-14:40 |
"Architecture of Pol II(G) and Molecular Mechanism of Transcription Regulation by Gdown1" Robert Roeder (The Rockefeller University) |
| 14:40-15:20 |
"Post-initiation Functions of the Mediator Complex" Joan Conaway (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room) |
| 15:50-16:30 |
"Structure and Dynamics of the Chromatin Fiber in Gene Regulation" Guohong Li (Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| 16:30-17:10 |
"How Does a Viral RNA Polymerase Ratchet along DNA without Possibly Backtracking?" Jin Yu (Beijing Computational Science Research Center) |
| 18:00-20:30 | Dinner Banquet (By invitation only) |
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21 Mar (Wed)
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Interface between Transcription and DNA Repair Session Chair: Irina Artsimovitch (Ohio State University) |
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| 09:00-09:40 |
"Ubiquitylation and Degradation of RNA Polymerase II" Jesper Svejstrup (The Francis Crick Institute) |
| 09:40-10:20 |
"CSA and CSB Regulators of Transcription Arrest" Jean-Marc Egly (Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) |
| 10:20-11:00 | Group Photo Session
and Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room) |
| 11:00-11:40 |
"Molecular Basis of Lesion Recognition for Transcription Coupled Repair" Dong Wang (University of California at San Diego) |
| 11:40-12:20 |
"Rescuing Arrested RNA Polymerase" Terence Strick (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| 12:20- | Free Time |
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22 Mar (Thu)
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Genome Approach and Beyond Session Chair: Ron Conaway (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) |
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| 09:00-09:40 |
"How Specific Factors Collaborate to Regulate of Distinct Steps in the Transcription Cycle" John Lis (Cornell University; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study) |
| 09:40-10:20 |
"Genomic Mechanisms of Gene Regulation and Chromatin Organization" Frank Pugh (Pennsylvania State University) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room) |
| 10:50-11:30 |
"RNA Polymerase II Dynamics and Its Enigmatic CTD" Dave Gilmour (Pennsylvania State University) |
| 11:30-12:10 |
"R-loop Formation and Transcriptional Control" Xiang-dong Fu (University of California at San Diego) |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch Break |
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Genome Approach and Beyond Session Chair: Xuhui Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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| 14:00-14:40 |
"Single-Molecule Measurements Reveal the Dynamics and Force Dependency of Archaeal Transcription" Dina Grohmann (University of Regensburg) |
| 14:40-15:20 |
"The Regulation Mechanism of Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase Transcription Elongation" Toyotaka Ishibashi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| 15:20-16:00 |
"Simultaneous Mapping of Transcript Start and End Sites across the Bacterial Transcriptome" Shixin Liu (The Rockefeller University) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room) |
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23 Mar (Fri)
| Time | Event |
| 09:00-10:00 | Discussion Session |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break (Lobby, G/F) |
| 10:30-12:00 |
IAS Distinguished Lecture - "Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Animal Cells"
[Abstract] Robert Roeder (The Rockefeller University) Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:30 |
IAS Distinguished Lecture -
"The Mediator Complex in Transcriptional Regulation" [Abstract] Joan Conaway (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break (Lobby, G/F) |
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