Nuclear Organization & Function
June 2 - 7, 2010
Abstracts due March 12, 2010

Organizers:
Terri Grodzicker, David Spector,
David Stewart & Bruce Stillman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Past Program

We are pleased to host the 75th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will address Nuclear Organization & Function. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 and end on the evening of Monday June 7 with normal departure on the following morning.

The Symposium will include 12/13 oral sessions and 2/3 poster sessions covering the latest reserach into nuclear processes. Most of the talks will be given by invited speakers but we may select a few talks from openly submitted abstracts. Social events throughout the Symposium provide ample opportunity for informal interactions and will include a wine-and-cheese party, a beach picnic, cocktails and banquet, and departure brunch.

Topics:
•Chromosome territories, insulators, centromeres, telomeres
•Chromatin and chromosome structure
•Connections between nuclear processes (replication, repair, recombination)
•Connections between nuclear processes (transcription, RNA processing, import/export)
•Genome organization and genome-wide studies
•Mitosis/meiosis
•RNA regulation
•Nuclear domains
•Nuclear periphery
•Nuclear organization and development
•Nuclear reprogramming

Speakers:
Asifa Akhtar, Max-Planck-Institut fur Immunobiologie, Germany
David Allis, The Rockefeller University
Robin Allshire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, UK
Genevieve Almouzni, Institut Curie/Section de Recherche, UMR218, France
Angelika Amon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Baylin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Bazett-Jones, Hospital for Sick Children
Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana
Shelley Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, UK
Gunter Blobel, The Rockefeller University
Stephen Buratowski, Harvard Medical School
Giacomo Cavalli, CNRS, France
Don Cleveland, University of California, San Diego
Thomas Cremer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University
John Diffley, Cancer Research UK
William Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh, UK
Gary Felsenfeld, National Institutes of Health
Amanda Fisher, Imperial College School of Medicine, UK
Roland Foisner, University of Vienna, Austria
Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute, UK
Joseph Gall, Carnegie Institute
Susan Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
David Gilbert, Florida State University
Robert Goldman, Northwestern University Medical School
Shiv Grewal, National Institutes of Health
Ingrid Grummt, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
John Gurdon, University of Cambridge, UK
Stephen Harrison, Harvard Medical School
Edith Heard, Curie Institute, CNRS UMR218, France
Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Martin Hetzer, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sui Huang, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute/MIT
Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital
Alberto Kornblihtt, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jeanne Lawrence, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jeannie Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital
John Lis, Cornell University
Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester Medical Center
Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Barbara Meyer, HHMI/University of California Berkeley
Tom Misteli, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Kim Nasmyth, University of Oxford, UK
Huck-Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore
Rolf Ohlsson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Craig Peterson, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Craig Pikaard, Washington University
Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oxford, UK
Danny Reinberg, HHMI/NYU School of Medicine
Daniela Rhodes, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Michael Rout, The Rockefeller University
Ted Salmon, University of North Carolina
John Sedat, University of California, San Francisco
Ramin Shiekhattar, The Wistar Institute
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School
Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Camilla Sjogren, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
David Spector, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tim Stearns, Stanford University
Joan Steitz, HHMI/Yale University
Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Azim Surani, Wellcome/CRC Institute, UK
Bas Van Steensel, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
Yoshinori Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Japan
Richard Young, Whitehead Institute/MIT
Kenneth Zaret, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

We are accepting abstracts for consideration as poster presentations. Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Status of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Some special funds are available to help junior scientists wishing to actively present their work at the Symposium (US minorities are particularly encouraged to apply).

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in June.

The Symposium is supported in part by funds provided by CSHL's Corporate Sponsor Program and the National Institutes of Health.

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.