Invited speakers list

Andrés Aguilera (Chair) (CABIMER-Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain)
RNA and chromatin in transcription-replication conflicts

Gaelle Legube (Vice-chair) (Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
Chromatin and chromosome dynamics in DNA Double Strand Break repair

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna (FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
DNA breaks trigger transcription

Genevieve Almouzni (Curie Institute, Paris, France)
Histones variants and genome stability - links with RNA

Haiko van Attikum (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Regulation and dynamics of DNA repair in a chromatin context

Aura Carreira (Curie Institute, Paris, France)
Interplay between homologous recombination and RNA metabolism, a case from the tumor suppressor BRCA2

Karlene Cimprich (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
Mechanisms for RNA-Mediated Genome Instability

Priscilla Cooper (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, USA)
XPG functions with BRCA2 in genome stability and R-loop modulation

Frederic Chedin (Genome Center, Davis, USA)
Understanding R-loop formation from modeling to single molecule profiling

Michelle Debatisse (Curie Institute, Paris, France) 
ATR, a major regulator of the replication dynamicsg

Jessica Downs (The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom)
The SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex maintains genome stability through multiple mechanisms

Daniel Durocher (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Canada)
Charting the genetic architecture of the DNA damage response

Emmanuelle Fabre (Hôpital St. Louis, Paris, France)
Genome stability: what role for chromatin dynamics?

Marco Foiani (IFOM-IEO Campus, Milan, Italy)
Coordinating transcription and replication

Vincent Geli (Marseille Cancer Research Center, Marseille, France)
Role of the Nuclear Pore Complex in the repair of damaged telomeres in S. cerevisiae

Monica Gullerova (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)
RNA dependent DNA damage response

Thanos Halazonetis (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
DNA replication stress in cancer

Pablo Huertas (CABIMER, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain)
A novel connection between DNA repair and RNA editing

Titia de Lange (Rockefeller University, New York, USA)
Telomeric Replication Stress

Brian Luke (Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany)
The dynamic regulation of RNase H enzymes at telomeres

Marcel Mechali (Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France)
DNA replication origins, licensing reaction, and genome instability

Houra Merrikh (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
The intimate relationship between replication and transcription

Eugene Nudler (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, USA)
New principles of transcription-coupled DNA repair in bacteria

Philippe Pasero (Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
Transcription-Replication conflicts in yeast and human cells

Craig Peterson (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA)
Chromatin dynamics and transcriptional homeostasis

Sophie Polo (Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France)
Epigenome maintenance in response to DNA damage

Evi Soutoglou (Université de Strasbourg; Strasbourg, France)
DNA repair in different heterochromatin structures

Manuel Stucki (University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland)
TCOF1/Treacle controls the nucleolar response to DNA double-strand breaks

Tereisa Texeira (Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France)
How telomeres determine replicative potential

Wim Vermeulen (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Transactions at transcription-blocking DNA lesions