3:30-8:30 Pmarrival and Registration

Thursday,October 2nd

3:30-8:30 PMArrival and Registration

5:30-7:00 PMWelcome Dinner

7:00-7:15 PMIntroductory Remarks

7:15-8:00 PMKeynote Lecture

Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & HHMI)

8:00-9:15 PMSession I: Non-coding RNAsTranscription

Chair,Steven Henikoff

8:00-8:20 Ingrid Grummt (German Cancer Research Center)

8:20-8:40 Stephen Buratowski (Harvard Medical School)

8:40-9:00Craig Peterson (University of Massachusetts Medical School)

9:00-9:15Stephen Liebhaber (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

9:30-11:30 PMASBMB Sponsored Reception

Friday, October 3rd

7:30-9:00 AMBreakfast

9:00-10:35AMSession II:Chromatin Modifications Cancer

Chair,JohnathanWhetstine

9:00-9:20JohnathanWhetstine (MGH Cancer Center)

9:20-9:40Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern School of Medicine)

9:40-10:00JolantaGrembecka (University of Michigan)

10:00-10:20Dewey McCafferty (Duke University)

10:20-10:35Matthew Gamble (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Break

11:00 AM-12:30 PMSession III: Chromatin Remodeling Transcription

Chair, Andreas Ladurner

11:00-11:20Andreas Ladurner (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich)

11:20-11:40VasilyStuditsky (Fox Chase Cancer Center)

11:40-12:00Francois Robert (IRCM)

12:00-12:15Cedric Clapier (Huntsman Cancer Institute)

12:15-12:30ChhabiGovind (Oakland University)

12:30-2:00 PMLunch

2:00-3:15 PM Session IV:Chromatin Modifications Transcription

Chair, Mitzi Kuroda

2:00-2:20 Mitzi Kuroda (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital)

2:20-2:40 Yali Dou (University of Michigan)

2:40-3:00Or Gozani (Stanford University)

3:00-3:15 DeanTantin (University of Utah)

Break

4:00-5:30 PM Session V:Mechanisms of RNA PolymeraseElongation

Chair, Karen Arndt

4:00-4:20Karen Ardnt (University of Pittsburgh)

4:20-4:40Joe Reese (Penn State University)

4:40-5:00Brian Strahl (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

5:00-5:15Brian Lewis (National Cancer Institute)

5:15-5:30 Alessandro Gardini (University of Miami)

6:30-7:45 PMDinner

8:00-10:30 PMPoster Session I

10:30 PM-12:00 AM Reception

Saturday, October 4th

7:30–9:00 AMBreakfast

9:00–10:15AMSession VI:Chromatin Modification Readers

Chair, Bing Li

9:00-9:20Bing Li (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

9:20-9:40Tatiana Kutateladze (University of Colorado School of Medicine)

9:40-10:00Yang Shi (Boston Children’s Hospital)

10:00-10:15Danette Daniels (Promega Corporation)

Break

11:00 AM-12:30 PM Session VII:NucleosomeDynamicsTranscription

Chair, Frank Pugh

11:00-11:20Frank Pugh (Pennsylvania State University)

11:20-11:40Dave Auble(University of Virginia Health System)

11:40-12:00Tim Formosa (University of Utah School of Medicine)

12:00-12:15David Shore (University of Geneva)

12:00-12:30Shigeki Nagai (Stanford University)

12:30-2:00 PMLunch

2:00-5:00 PMFree afternoon

Enjoy the beauty of Snowbird

6:30-7:45 PMDinner

8:00-10:30 PMPoster Session II

10:30 PM-12:00 AMReception

Sunday, October 5th

7:30-9:00 AMBreakfast

9:00-10:25 AMSession VIII:Transcriptional Activation & Signaling

Chair, Steven Hahn

9:00-9:20Steven Hahn (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

9:20-9:40David Price (University of Iowa)

9:40-9:55Ivan D'Orso (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

9:55-10:10Gregory Yochum (Penn State University College of Medicine)

10:10-10:25Monique Floer (Michigan State University)

Break

11:00 AM-12:20 PM Session IX:Epigenetics

Chair, Xiaodong Cheng

11:00-11:20Kai Ge (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)

11:20-11:40Jean-Francois Couture (University of Ottawa)

11:40-11:00Xiaodong Cheng (Emory University School of Medicine)

12:00-12:20SriharsaPradhan (New England Biolabs, Inc)

12:30-2:00 PMLunch

2:00-3:30 PM Session X:RNA Polymerase Mechanism

Chair, Dong Wang

2:00-2:20 Dong Wang (University of California, San Diego)

2:20-2:40Craig Kaplan (Texas A&M University)

2:40-3:00 Jean-Marc Egly (Institute Genet et Biol Mol et Cell)

3:00-3:15Robert Weinzierl (Imperial college of London)

3:15-3:30Zhengjian Zhang (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Break

4:00-5:30 PM Session XI: Transcriptional Elongation & RNA Processing

Chair, Yan Jessie Zhang

4:00-4:20Yan Jessie Zhang (University of Texas, Austin)

4:20-4:40Tracy Johnson (University of California, Los Angeles)

4:40-5:00Claire Moore (Tufts University School of Medicine)

5:00-5:15Matthew Galbraith (University of Colorado at Boulder)

5:15-5:30Steven Hanes (SUNY Upstate Medical University)

5:30-6:45 PMDinner

7:00-7:55 PMSession XII:Structural Biology and Chromatin

Chair, Ray Trievel

7:00-7:20Ray Trievel (University of Michigan)

7:20-7:40Song Tan (Penn State University)

7:40-7:55Tomasz Cierpicki (University of Michigan)

8:00-8:10ASBMB Best Poster Award Announcement

8:10-8:25 Poster award winner 1

8:25-8:40Poster award winner 2

8:40-8:55Closing Comments

9:00 PM-12:00 AMReception

Monday,October6thDeparture