Transposable Elements
October 6 - 9, 2020

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Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Abdul Fatah, Ahmad Luqman

Interferon-stimulated genes regulate human LINE-1 retrotransposition

poster

Ahn, Hyo Won

Retrotransposon insertions associated with risk of neurologic and psychiatric diseases

poster

An, Wenfeng

Characterizing mouse L1 promoters in vitro and in vivo using reporter transgenes

poster

Anderson, Sarah N

Widespread imprinting of transposable elements and young genes in the maize endosperm

talk

Ansaloni, Federico

Transposable elements differentially influence transcriptional dynamics during zygotic genome activation

poster

Arriagada, Gloria L

Identification and expression analysis of LTR-retrotransposons in Chilean blue mussels Mytilus chilensis

poster

Atkinson, Abigail

Regulation of human endogenous retrovirus K by androgen receptor―Implications for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

poster

Baduel, Pierre

Environmentally-induced transposition and its adaptive potential in response to climate change

talk

Banerjee, Abhimanyu

Deep learning models of 422 C2H2 - Zinc Finger transcription factor binding profiles reveal alternative DNA binding sequence preferences via combinatorial use of zinc fingers

talk

Beckwith, Sean

Structure-function analysis of a retrotransposon restriction factor

poster

Belfort, Marlene

An engaging journey with mobile introns and inteins

talk

Benitez-Guijarro, Maria

Cell state dependent LINE-1 interactomes

poster

Berrens, Rebecca V

Transposable element expression at unique loci in single cells with scLONG-seq

poster

Bertels, Frederic

The population biology of REPINs

poster

Bertozzi, Tessa M

KRAB zinc finger protein diversification drives inter-individual methylation variability

talk

Betermier, Mireille

Time and coupled action of domesticated PiggyBac transposases and the NHEJ pathway drive programmed precise genome rearrangements in Paramecium

talk

Biscotti, Maria A

Are transposable elements the drivers of teleosts migratory behavior?

poster

Bista, Iliana

Insights into the evolution of transposon regulation of the iconic notothenioid adaptive radiation based on 24 new genome assemblies and piRNA expression

poster

Blommaert, Julie

To B or not to B―Transposon dynamics, B-chromosomes and genome size variation in rotifers

poster

Blow, Frances

Parasites within parasites―Transposable elements in Trichomonas vaginalis

talk

Bodega, Beatrice

Intronic LINE1 are included in chromatin associated transcripts to regulate human T lymphocytes function

talk

Bondy-Denomy, Joseph

How mobile genetic elements avoid CRISPR-mediated demise

talk

Bonnet, Amandine

Study of nuclear pore complexes in yeast reveals that minor changes in the transcription level of retrotransposons have major consequences on retrotransposition rates

poster

Borges, Filipe

Epigenetic control of retrotransposons with microRNAs in plants

talk

Bourc'his, Déborah

m6A RNA methylation regulates the fate of endogenous retroviruses

talk

Bundo, Miki

Detection of novel somatic LINE-1 insertions at single neurons of schizophrenic patients

poster

Butler, Christopher

The evolutionary consequences of transposable element proliferation within a species rich clade of neotropical catfish (Corydoradinae)

poster

Buttler, Carmen

Retroviral co-option of host regulatory networks

poster

Carducci, Federica

Teleost genome diversification―New insights on the strict connection between Rex3 retroelement and environmental temperature

poster

Carter, Thomas A

Subgroups of subgroups―How a lineage within an endogenous retroviral subfamily gained transcriptional activity in embryonic stem cells

poster

Chang, Yung-Heng

The gypsy endogenous retrovirus drives non-cell autonomous propagation in a Drosophila TDP-43 model of neurodegeneration

talk

Chen, Peiwei

Adaptation of Drosophila piRNA program to sexually dimorphic TE landscape

talk

Correa III, Alberto (Bert)

Tn6230―A Tn7-like element with a unique attachment site and novel target site selector

poster

Costa Monteiro Moreira, Gabriel

Birth of polymorphic piRNA clusters driven by transposable element insertions in the male cattle germline

poster

Cotta-Ramusino, Cecilia

Writing large DNA sequences into the genome with novel enzymatic machinery

talk

Cristofari, Gael

Cell type-specific epigenetic regulation of human L1 retrotransposons

talk

Cullen, Harrison B

ERVs walk a fine line between priming and silencing

poster

Curcio, Joan

Unleashed activity of the Ty1 retrotransposon disrupts asymmetric centrosome inheritance

talk

da Conceicao, Helena Beatriz

Identification of fixed retrocopies in mammalian genomes

poster

de la Pena, Marcos

Ribozymes and retroelements―A persistent link between RNA catalysis and DNA retrotransposition

talk

De Luca, Chiara

The non-genomic impact of retrotransposon LINE-1 on piRNA-deficient germ cells of mice

talk

De Paula, Ruth

New perspectives on G-quadruplex DNA in L1 transposons

talk

Dejardin, Jerome

Active transposable elements control by the endoribonuclease SCHLAFEN 9

talk

Deniz, Ozgen

Epigenetic activation of transposons in acute myeloid leukaemia

talk

Di Stefano, Luisa

A dual role of the histone demethylase dLsd1 in oogenesis: regulating developmental genes and repressing transposons

poster

D'Ordine, Alexandra

Characterization of the LINE-1 retrotransposon endonuclease domain to target age-associated disease

poster

Doucet-O'Hare, Tara

Elucidating the role of HERV-K (HML-2) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with RNA sequencing and induced motor neurons (iMNs)

poster

Dyda, Frederick

The structural basis of seamless excision and tetranucleotide targeting by the piggyBac DNA transposase

talk

Eastwood, Evelyn L

Requirement of a highly conserved dynein light chain for co-transcriptional silencing of transposons in Drosophila

talk

Fejes Toth, Katalin

A somatic piRNA pathway regulats neural crest development in chicken

talk

Feschotte, Cedric

Antiviral activity of a human placental protein of retroviral origin

talk

Forcier, Talitha L

TElocal―Quantifying transposon expression by locus

poster

Frost, Jennifer M

Functional evaluation of transposable elements as enhancers in mouse and human trophoblast

poster

Gauchier, Mathilde

Retrotransposon chromatin proteomics reveals ALR proteins and SLFN9 as potentially involved in mammalian genome defense

poster

Gerdes, Patricia

Balancing the LINE―Dynamic methylation and activity of L1 retrotransposons during development

talk

Goubert, Clement

Contribution of unfixed transposable element insertions to human regulatory variation

poster

Grillo, Giacomo

Reprogrammed transposable elements drive aberrant gene expression in prostate cancer

poster

Guarne, Alba

Structural studies of the Tn7 transposable element

talk

Guillen-Ramirez, Hugo A

Transposable elements as functional domains of long noncoding RNAs

poster

Guo, Wei

Rapid, heat-induced transgenerational reactivation of a silenced transposable element in maize

poster

Guo, Yalong

Transposable elements contribute to plant adaptation

talk

Gusa, Asiya A

Transposon mobilization elevated by heat stress causes genome-wide mutations in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans

talk

Haase, Astrid

A small RNA perspective on genome integrity

talk

Hackl, Thomas

Endogenous virophages and retrotransposons populate the genomes of a marine flagellate

poster

Halabian, Reza

Frequent polymorphic DNA transductions in human populations

poster

Hannon-Hatfield, Adam

Ty1 copy number control specificity and domestication of a self-encoded restriction factor

poster

Hart, Samuel F

Transposable element expansions in soft-shell clam transmissible cancer

talk

Heitkam, Tony

Taking the retro-ride―Long terminal repeat retrotransposons carry tandem repeats and distribute them in plant genomes

poster

Hsieh, Shan-Chi (Popo)

Privatization of guide information by Tn7-CRISPR-Cas prevents host degradation by canonical CRISPR-Cas

poster

Imbeault, Michael

KRAB zinc finger proteins, transposable elements and the evolution of gene regulatory networks – latest insights from analysis of large-scale datasets

poster

Isbilir, Buse

Structural insights into conjugative transposition of Gisul2

poster

Ito, Jumpei

Endogenous retroviruses drive KRAB zinc-finger protein family expression for tumor suppression

poster

Ivancevic, Atma

Ancient viral origins of regulatory elements in cancer

poster

Jacobsen, Steven

The role of MORC proteins in TE silencing and epigenetic gene regulation

talk

James, Tony

Quantifying neuronal tissue viral reservoir to identify relationship between viral load and exosomes quantity and cargo

poster

Jiang, Jiayue (Clara)

L1PA2 retrotransposons contribute abundant transcription factor binding sites and promoters in breast cancer

poster

Joffre, Olivier

ERV-derived genomic sequences control CD4 T cell immunity

talk

Joubert, Pierre M

Investigating LTR retrotransposon activity in a fungal plant pathogen using circular DNA sequencing

poster

Judd, Julius A

Evolution of circadian enhancers from transposable elements

poster

Kakutani, Tetsuji

Control of VANC anti-silencing systems in Arabidopsis

talk

Karam Teixeira, Felipe

piRNA clusters and the control of transposable elements during germline development in Drosophila

talk

Keegan, Richard M

Intercellular viral spread of the Drosophila endogenous retrovirus gypsy

poster

Kelly, Conor J

Species-specific rewiring of interferon responses by transposable elements

poster

Kinisu, Martin

Klf5 confers embryonic and extra-embryonic bi-potential cell fate in ESCs and preimplantation embryos

poster

Kirov, Ilya

A systematic survey of LTR retrotransposon transcription revealed multiple features of plant retrotranscriptome formation

poster

Klompe, Sanne E

Transposon-encoded CRISPR–Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration

poster

Kojima, Kenji K

Tet/JBP dioxygenase genes were transferred across different superfamilies of DNA transposons

poster

Krishnan, Shreya

Unravelling the mechanism of target selection at sites of replication in Tn7 transposition

poster

Kuhlman, Thomas E

Retrotransposon effects, dynamics, and exploitation in live cells

poster

Kutnowski, Nitzan S

Mobility of zebrafish P-like transposons by THAP9 and  Drosophila P element transposase

poster

Lama, Jyoti

Centromeric determinants of host tolerance to transposable elements

poster

Lau, Nelson C

An integrated mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons

talk

Laureau, Raphaelle

Meiotic cells counteract programmed retrotransposon activation via RNA-binding translational repressor assemblies

poster

Lee, Seung Kyu K

A dual-activity topoisomerase complex Interacts with piRNA machinery to promote transposon silencing and germ cell function

poster

Lesage, Pascale

A small targeting domain in Ty1 integrase is sufficient to direct retrotransposon integration to tRNA genes

poster

Levin, Henry L

Identification of an integrase-independent pathway of retrotransposition

talk

Li, Feng

Identification of an integrase-independent pathway of retrotransposition

poster

Li, Manci

Retrotransposons and the circadian rhythm of the human brain

poster

Longworth, Michelle S

LINE-1 activates condensin-mediated IFN signaling

poster

Macfarlan, Todd S

Zinc finger genes and the control / co-option of transposable elements      

talk

Mann, Ludwig

ECCsplorer―Detection of extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) from sequencing data

poster

Marshall, Craig

TDP-43 mediated silencing of transposable elements

poster

Martinez Ugalde, Isaac

Evolution of transposable elements in Heligmosomoides bakeri

poster

Masumoto, Hiroshi

The cruciform-centered region inside budding yeast Ty1 retrotransposon manages two distinct transcriptional modes―The gene silencing and the activation of Ty1 transcription

talk

McKerrow, Wilson H

Identification of LINE-1 expression and its genomic correlates in healthy somatic human tissues

poster

McNair, Neil

Transposon abundances and genome size dynamics in the plant genus Tillandsia

poster

Measday, Vivien

The Rpc34 RNA Pol III subunit is critical for Ty1-Integrase targeting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

poster

Mirouze, Marie

Horizontal transfers in an ancestral forest mainly concern LTR-retrotransposons

Poster

Merenciano, Miriam

Natural transposable element insertions drive expression changes in genes underlying Drosophila immune response

poster

Miyoshi, Tomoichiro

Mitochondrial and nuclear single-stranded DNA-binding proteins facilitate human LINE-1 retrotransposition

poster

Modis, Yorgo

Structure and biochemical activities of a phlebovirus-like envelope protein from a hookworm endogenous retrovirus

poster

Modzelewski, Andrew J

The essential role of retrotransposon reactivation in mammalian preimplantation development

poster

Moran, John

Poly(ADP-Ribose) polymerase 2 (PARP2) recruits replication protein A to sites of LINE-1 integration to facilitate retrotransposition

talk

Moreira, Camila do Nascimento

Transposable elements inside B chromosomes of the rodent Holochilus sciureus

poster

Mulholland, Christopher B

Recent evolution of a TET-controlled and DPPA3/STELLA-driven pathway of passive demethylation in mammals

poster

Murphy, Shawn

Evidence that Ty1 retrotransposon activity disrupts asymmetric centrosome inheritance by diverting centrosome component Nud1 to the VLP assembly site

poster

Nam, Jongmin

An unbiased genome-scale reporter assay method detects Alu elements as a major contributor of the human cis-regulatory genome

poster

Namekawa, Satoshi

Endogenous retroviruses drive species-specific germline transcriptomes in mammals

talk

Nascimento-Oliveira, Jordana I

The origin and evolution of transposable elements (TEs) and PIWI-Interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in the selfish B chromosome

talk

Ninova, Maria A

Su(var)2-10 and the SUMO pathway link piRNA-guided transposon recognition to transcriptional silencing

poster

Nordborg, Magnus

Transposon variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

talk

Oltra, Elisa

Potential role of human endogenous retrovirus activation in fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

poster

O'Neill, Kathryn

Machine learning methods to refine the association between retrotransposon expression and ALS clinical symptoms and outcomes

talk

Pascarella, Giovanni

Non-allelic homologous recombination of Alu and LINE-1 elements generates somatic complexity in human genomes

poster

Pasquesi, Giulia Irene Maria

Transposable elements and immunity―New perspective from bat epigenomics

poster

Pathak, Rakesh

Chromatin specificity of HIV-1 integration

poster

Peona, Valentina

The avian W chromosome acts as a female-specific refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on sex-biased mutational load and ageing

talk

Percharde, Michelle

Novel roles for transposable elements in early development and chromatin regulation

talk

Petassi, Michael T

Dual pathway transposition with I-F3 Tn7-CRISPR-Cas mediated by dedicated classes of guide RNAs

poster

Petassi, Michael T

Privatization of guide information by Tn7-CRISPR-Cas prevents host degradation by canonical CRISPR-Cas

poster

Peters, Joseph

Targeted transposition with Tn7 elements―Safe sites, mobile plasmids, CRISPR/Cas and beyond

talk

Pierce, Nicholas

Complex roles of Histone H3K9 methyltransferase EHMT2/G9a in regulating transposable element expression in the embryo

poster

Poptsova, Maria S

Learning structural properties of 3’-ends of LINEs and SINEs across the tree of life with deep learning models

poster

Pradhan, Barun

High insertional activity of a hot L1 retrotransposon in homologous recombination-proficient ovarian cancer cell lines

poster

Radío, Santiago E

Transposable elements contribute to the re-wiring and fine-tuning stress regulatory networks involved in human environmental adaptation

poster

Ramos, Kenneth S

Differential packaging of LINE-1 mRNA and protein controls reverse transcriptase activity in extracellular vesicles

poster

Reeves, G. Adam

Transposable elements role in the evolution of diapause in the African turquoise killifish

poster

Rice, Phoebe A.

Conserved replication-related machinery of staphylococcal SCC elements

talk

Rowe, Helen

The HUSH complex is a gatekeeper of type I interferon through epigenetic regulation of LINE-1s

talk

Santiago-Frangos, Andrew

Phase-dependent regulation of CRISPR evolution

poster

Savytska, Natalia

Temporal retrotransposon expression trajectories associated with Parkinson disease

poster

Schatz, David

Molecular domestication of the RAG transposon

talk

Schneider, Blair K

Retrotransposon expression and insertion during aging in Drosophila melanogaster

poster

Schobel, Anja

Hepatitis C virus infection restricts human LINE-1 retrotransposition in hepatoma cells

poster

Schumann, Gerald G

Specific subsets of functional endogenous LINE-1 loci are activated in human pluripotent stem cells and overlap with the set of functional LINE-1 loci mobilized in tumors

poster

Sharma, Vasudha

DNA binding and excision properties of a tamed transposon

talk

Sharov, Andrey

Skin inflammation mediated by transposable elements―LSH and H3K9me3 methyltransferase SETDB1 maintain constitutive heterochromatin and prevent activation of transposable elements in epidermal keratinocytes

talk

Shen, Yao

The heptameric assembly of TnsC bound to DNA controls the targeting and activation of Tn7 transposition

poster

Shimada, Atsushi

A single centromeric retrotransposon is sufficient to promote chromosome segregation via RNA interference

poster

Singh, Manvendra K

Antagonism between young and old transposable elements create a clonal selection arena in the early human embryo

poster

Siudeja, Kasia

Somatic transposition in the Drosophila intestine occurs in active chromatin and is associated with tumor suppressor gene inactivation

poster

Slotkin, R. Keith

Long-read cDNA sequencing enables a 'gene-like' transcript annotation of transposable elements

talk

Smith, Kelli L

Transposable elements shape genome evolution in the plant symbiotic fungus Epichloë typhina

poster

Smyshlyaev, Georgy

Evolutionary background and structural principles of an antibiotic resistance-carrying broad host range transposon

talk

Srinivasachar Badarinarayan, Smitha

Endogenous retroviral LTR12C promoters regulate antiviral gene expression

poster

Srivastav, Satyam P

Population variation in piRNA clusters in Drosophila melanogaster

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Stam, Maike

Intergenic regulatory sequences in Zea mays: similar but slightly different epigenomic profile as that of animal enhancers

poster

Sternberg, Samuel H

Transposon-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration

talk

Stitzer, Michelle C

Elevated transposable element copy number is associated with reduced fitness in maize

talk

Szigeti, Krisztina

Decreased methylation level of LINE-1 retrotransposon can be caused by insufficient methyl-donor content in tissue and liquid biopsy samples in colorectal cancer progression

poster

Tang, Lijing

Inter-individual variation of de novo ERV transposition rate in the cattle germline

poster

Taylor, Darren

A novel approach to epigenomic profiling of repetitive elements at the single copy level.

poster

Teysset, Laure

Modelling early germline immunization after horizontal transfer

talk

Torres-Padilla, Maria-Elena

Epigenetic mechanisms in early mammalian development―TEs and totipotency

talk

Trasser, Marieke

Chromatin determinants of de novo transposon silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana

poster

Treiber, Christoph D

Transposon expression in the Drosophila brain is driven by neighboring genes and diversifies the neural transcriptome

poster

Tvedte, Eric

Accumulation of retrotransposons following a massive lateral gene transfer in Drosophila ananassae

poster

Waldern, Justin M

Establishing interaction networks affecting group II intron retrotransposition in bacteria

poster

Wang, David

DNA methylation regulated LINE-1 activation is associated with stem cell pluripotency and neural differentiation

poster

Wang, Liangxi

Inter-species and inter-tissue comparisons highlight the contribution of a DNA transposon to inflammatory cytokine induced NF-kB binding

talk

Wells, Jonathan N

Genomic context shapes the transposable element ecosystem during zebrafish development

poster

Yang, Lei

A catalog of human LINE-1 retrotransposons at allelic resolution―Functional and evolutionary implications

poster

Yang, Nachen

Transposon landscape changes in aging Drosophila

poster

Yang, Wei

How RAG1/2 initiates V(D)J recombination

talk

Yellan, Isaac

Diverse CGG binding proteins across eukaryotes are produced by numerous independent domestications of hAT transposons

poster

Zaratiegui, Mikel

Transposon delousing of the fission yeast genome

poster

Zeng, Chao

Sequence characterization of R-loop-forming RNAs in mammals

poster

Zhang, Chi

Transposon age dictates the epigenetic landscape in the quiescent mouse liver

poster

Zhang, Panpan

Nanopore mobilome-seq―When long reads give a full picture on transposable elements extrachromosomal circles

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Zhang, Panpan

SASAR―A meta-assembly tool to merge different genome assemblies and decrypt structural variants due to transposable elements

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Zhang, Zhiguo

DNA polymerase alpha facilitates the transfer of parental histones to lagging strands and functions in the repression of endogenous retroviral elements

talk

Zhu, Xiaowei

Landscape of somatic LINE-1 retrotranspositions across 21 anatomical sites of a human brain

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Zuccolo, Andrea

Identification and characterization of structural variants across sixteen varieties of Asian rice (Oryza sativa L)

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