Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance
September 8 - 11/12

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Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Affandi, Trisiani

PKCδ regulates the DNA damage response to irradiation through regulation of chromatin accessibility and DNA double stranded break repair

poster

Agresti, Alessandra

Nucleosomes effectively shield DNA from radiation damage in living cells

talk

Alabert, Constance

Disruption and restoration of euchromatin and heterochromatin in cycling cells

talk

Andrs, Martin

Reactive oxygen species induce R-loop-dependent replication stress in human cells

poster

Aparicio, Oscar

Differential requirement of Dbf4 C-terminal Zn-finger in firing of Centromere-proximal versus Forkhead-activated replication origins in S. cerevisiae

talk

Arana, Mercedes

Faithful DNA ligation by DNA ligase 1 and its role in maintaining genome integrity

poster

Arbona, Jean-Michel

Uncovering the positioning and strength of DNA replication origins in human cell lines using mathematical modeling

poster

Audit, Benjamin

Replication initiation plasticity in conserved replication timing domains

poster

Baris, Yasemin

Human DNA replication with purified proteins

talk

Bertolin, Agostina

HLTF mediates irreversible replication fork arrest in checkpoint-deficient human cells

poster

Bleichert, Franziska

Chromosomal recruitment mechanism for the metazoan initiator ORC

talk

Botchan, Michael

Does licensing occur in mitosis?—Evidence from live cell imaging in Drosophila

talk

Bracci, Alexa

Evolutionary dynamics and impact of DNA replication timing in great apes

talk

Caballero, Madison

Comprehensive analysis of DNA replication timing in genetic diseases and gene knockouts identifies MCM10 as a novel regulator of the replication program

poster

Canal, Berta

Characterising replication fork stalling and restart with purified proteins

poster

Chanou, Anna

Single molecule analysis of nucleosome positioning in replication origins

poster

Chen, Boning

Spatiotemporal kinetics of CAF-1-dependent chromatin maturation reveals mechanisms of replication-coupled chromatin assembly

talk

Chen, Chunlong

Both single-molecule optical replication mapping and single-cell replication-timing support a stochastic model of eukaryotic replication

talk

Chen, Xin

Deciphering how DNA replication establishes asymmetric epigenetic information in cell fate determination

talk

Chesnokov, Igor

Humanized Drosophila model of the Meyer-Gorlin syndrome reveals conserved and divergent features of the Orc6 protein

poster

Claussin, Clemence

Replicon-seq—A new method to study sister replication fork movement and replication/transcription conflicts

talk

Coleman, Kate E.

Trapping of USP1 at replication forks induces DNA replication stress and genomic instability

talk

Collier, James

Cohesin topologically entraps DNA through two distinct pathways

poster

Coster, Gideon

The mechanism of replication stalling and recovery within repetitive DNA

talk

Crain, Aaron

Histone methyltranseferase Set8/KMT5A and H4K20 mutants have distinct developmental phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster

talk

Crossley, Madzia P

Cytoplasmic RNA-DNA hybrids derived from genomic R-loops activate the innate immune response

talk

de Oliveira Vitarelli, Marcela

Standardization of sequencing based techniques for the study of Trypanosoma cruzi replication dynamics

poster

Deegan, Tom D

A conserved mechanism for regulating replisome disassembly in eukaryotes

talk

Dhoonmoon, Ashna

Genome-wide CRISPR synthetic lethality screen identifies a role for the ADP-ribosyltransferase PARP14 in DNA replication dynamics controlled by ATR

poster

Dibitetto, Diego

Fork slowing and reversal as an adaptive response to perturbed ATR signaling

talk

Do, Brian T

A myeloid maturation program initiated by nucleotide depletion through replication stress

talk

Doksani, Ylli

Increased incidence of replication fork reversal at mammalian telomeric repeats

poster

Dolce, Valeria

Fork stability relies on replisome-associated repriming

poster

Duderstadt, Karl E

Mobile origin licensing factors confer resistance to transcription conflicts

talk

Dungrawala, Huzefa M

CRL4DCAF14 regulates replication fork stability to promote genome integrity

talk

Dutta, Anindya

MicroDNA (small eccDNA) levels are dependent on MMEJ, repressed by c-NHEJ, and stimulated by DNA double-strand break

talk

Eckhardt, Bruna

Understanding yeast chromatin replication using in vitro reconstitutions

poster

Edwards, Matthew

Delayed DNA replication in haploid human embryonic stem cells

poster

Enemark, Eric

Structure of an MCM ring encircling bona fide melted DNA illustrates a key aspect of replication initiation

talk

Fox, Catherine

The Fkh1 forkhead associated domain promotes ORC binding to a subset of DNA Replication origins in budding yeast

talk

Fu, Haiqing

Dynamics of replication origin over-activation

poster

Fujisawa, Ryo

Multiple UBX proteins support replisome disassembly by mammalian p97-UFD1-NPL4

poster

Gali, Vamsi

Insights into the mechanism of nascent DNA protection by budding yeast Rif1

poster

Gambus, Aga A

Replisome unloading in human somatic cells

talk

Gerbi, Susan

The steroid hormone ecdysone drives re-replication in DNA puffs of the fly Sciara

talk

Gerhardt, Jeannine

Error-prone repair of stalled replication forks drive mutagenesis in haploinsufficient BRCA1 cells

talk

Gilbert, David

Cohesin-mediated loop anchors confine the location of human replication origins

talk

Glaser, Samson

A single molecule approach to understanding sister chromatid cohesion establishment

poster

Gopaul, Diyavarshini

MCPH1 protects nascent DNA from over-degradation at stalled replication forks

talk

Greenberg, Roger

PCNA-Ub directs SNM1A nuclease to promote recombination dependent break induced telomere synthesis

poster

Greiwe, Julia

Structural mechanism for the selective phosphorylation of DNA-loaded MCM double hexamers by the Dbf4-dependent kinase

talk

Gupta, Shalini

A helicase-tethered ORC flip enables bidirectional helicase loading

talk

Hamperl, Stephan

Single-copy locus isolation identifies distinct chromatin proteomes of early- and late-firing DNA replication origins

talk

He, Yiwei

Rpd3 and Sir2 independently regulate single-copy versus multi-copy origins

poster

Hiraga, Shin-ichiro

Requirement for SAF-A/HNRNPU in establishing an open chromatin structure needed for multiple steps in DNA replication

talk

Hiratani, Ichiro

Establishment of the late-replicating inactive X chromosome during differentiation

talk

Hoffman, Rachel A

Helicase activation and DNA unwinding in the context of chromatin

poster

Houseley, Jon

Using TrAEL-seq to profile DNA replication under stress

poster

Isik, Esin

Role of MutSβ and MutLβ proteins in the restart of R-loop-stalled replication forks in human cells

poster

Janscak, Pavel

Reactive oxygen species induce R-loop-dependent replication stress in human cells

talk

Jaremko, Matt J

The dynamic human Origin Recognition Complex

talk

Jenkinson, Fiona

Dephosphorylation of the pre-initiation complex is essential for replication origin firing

talk

Jenkyn-Bedford, Michael

A conserved mechanism for regulating replisome disassembly in eukaryotes

poster

Jiang, Yangyang Kate

Mechanisms of Rad5-mediated mutagenic repair of undamaged ssDNA

poster

Jones, Rebecca

MCM7 polyubiquitylation and replisome unloading in human somatic cells

poster

Josephides, Joseph M

Addressing scalability and stochasticity in single-cell replication timing analyses with Kronos_scRT

poster

Kar, Ananya

Inhibition of CDK4/6 induces MCM unloading during the G1 phase

poster

Kara, Neesha

Genome-wide detection of DNA replication and DNA damage in mammalian cells using TrAEL-seq

poster

Kaushik, Aditi

Alteration of Smc3/Scc2 interaction prevents pre-acetylated cohesin from loading onto DNA

talk

Kavlashvili, Tamar

Helicase uncoupling elicits nascent strand degradation in Xenopus egg extracts

talk

Kee, Younghoon

Regulation of FACT histone chaperone in mitigation of replication stress

poster

Kerem, Batsheva

3D genome organization contributes to genome instability at fragile sites

talk

Kochenova, Olga V

p97Ufd1-Npl4 cooperates with Ubxn7 to disassemble replisomes during vertebrate replication termination

talk

Krishnamoorthy, Archana

RADX prevents genome instability by confining replication fork reversal to stalled forks

poster

Krishnamoorthy, Vidhya

A new AAA+ ATPase complex in DNA replication protein quality control

talk

Kumar, Charanya

Reconstitution of R-Loop-replisome collisions reveals distinct modes of eukaryotic leading strand restart at G-quadruplexes and RNA: DNA hybrids

talk

Kurat, Christoph F

Establishment and function of the chromatin landscape around eukaryotic chromosome replication origins

talk

Lalonde, Maxime

Investigating the role of transcription-replication conflicts in endogenous cellular reprogramming and cell fate decisions

poster

Lambert, Sarah

RNA:DNA hybrids from Okazaki fragments safeguard fork integrity by modulating KU-mediated barrier to nascent strands degradation

talk

Lebdy, Rana

GNL3 defines a new link between the control of DNA replication and replication forks stability

talk

Leffak, Michael

Microsatellite instability initiates gross chromosomal rearrangements at SINEs and high frequency mutagenesis

poster

Lehmann, Carl P

The Mgs1/WRNIP1 ATPase is important for the prevention of unwanted recombination at damaged replication forks

poster

Li, Huilin

Rad24-RFC loads the 911 clamp onto ssDNA in the opposite orientation of RFC loading PCNA

talk

Lim, Chew Theng

Multiple pathways for MCM loading by ORC

poster

Liu, Wenpeng

Functions of BRCA2 and RAD51 important for fork reversal and stabilization

talk

Liu, Xingchen

Investigating the mechanism of the eukaryotic sliding clamp loader

poster

Liu, Yaqun

OKseqHMM—A bioinformatics toolkit to analyze genome-wide replication fork directionality, replication initiation and termination

poster

Lopes, Massimo

Stress-induced proliferation bursts in haematopoietic stem cells alter DNA replication dynamics, challenging genome stability

poster

Madireddy, Advaitha

Understanding the mechanisms driving genomic instability in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma

poster

Magrino, Joseph

Two PCNA variants drive the same disease through separate mechanisms

poster

Mann, Anjali

Understanding the role of Polθ in chromosomal DNA replication under stressful conditions

talk

Marechal, Alexandre

SMARCAL1 ubiquitylation controls its association with RPA-ssDNA and promotes fork stability

talk

Marheineke, Kathrin

Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) regulates replication origin firing and phosphorylates Rif1 during unchallenged S phase

talk

Masai, Hisao

Mechanisms of membrane association of Rif1 and its role in replication timing regulation

poster

Massey, Dashiell

High-throughput analysis of DNA replication in single human cells reveals confined variability in the location and timing of replication initiation

poster

Mattiroli, Francesca

Mechanism of CAF-1 dependent nucleosome assembly during DNA replication

poster

McClure, Allison

Rad53 checkpoint kinase regulation of DNA replication fork rate via Mrc1 phosphorylation

poster

McCluskey, Kaley A

Improvements in the accuracy of protein colocalization in CoSMoS microscopy

poster

Mechali, Marcel

Metazoan DNA replication origins

talk

Mei, Liu

The consequences of differential origin licensing dynamics in distinct chromatin environments

talk

Merrikh, Houra

Investigating the mechanisms behind R-Loop induced lethality upon replication-transcription conflicts

talk

Miller, Thomas C

How does CDK phosphorylation of the Origin Recognition Complex inhibit MCM helicase loading during S-phase?

talk

Miura, Hisashi

Integrative data analysis approach to understand the developmental dynamics of the chromosome organization and DNA replication timing

poster

Mohamed, Taha

RADX forms higher-order oligomers to maintain replication fork stability

poster

Mohana-Natarajan, Vaishnavi

H2B ubiquitination regulates DNA replication fork dynamics in human cells

poster

Moiseeva, Tatiana N.

Using mAID-mediated depletion of DNA polymerase epsilon to uncover its role in the initiation of DNA replication in human cells

poster

Mosammaparast, Nima

Mass spectrometry-based analysis of nascent DNA (MS-BAND) permits rapid quantitation of DNA replication dynamics in diverse systems

talk

Muellner, Julius

Functional interaction between Rad5 and Rrm3 helicase activities in the prevention of DNA double-strand breaks in yeast

poster

Muñoz, Sergio

RAD51 restricts over-replication by hindering the progression of forks emerging from re-fired origins

talk

Nasrin, Farhana

DDX5-mediated destabilization of DREAM complex affects cell cycle gene expression and cell proliferation in breast and colon cancer

poster

Nieduszysnki, Conrad A

Single molecule detection of replication fork pause sites in budding yeast

poster

Nieduszysnki, Conrad A

Single molecule DNA replication dynamics of the human genome

talk

Nieminuszczy, Jadwiga

ACTINg at forks to counteract replicative stress and preserve genome stability

poster

Noble, Tyler D

Mapping genomic binding locations of TICRR and MTBP to study origin selection

poster

Nordman, Jared

ORC and Rif1 associate with the Nup107-160 complex linking nucleoporins to replication initiation

talk

O'Farrell, Patrick

Determinative timing of origin firing

talk

Ozono, Eiko

A genome-wide siRNA screen to identify enhancers and suppressors of DNA damage caused by cyclin E overexpression

poster

Parkash, Vimal

Dual mechanisms by which a family B DNA polymerase sense a ribonucleotide

talk

Pasero, Philippe

Loss of RNase H activity impairs the processing and restart of stalled replication forks

poster

Penengo, Lorenza

The Interferon/ISG15 system controls DNA replication fork stability and rescues viability in BRCA-deficient mouse ESCs

talk

Peycheva, Mihaela

The levels of MCM complexes are the major regulator of DNA replication timing in B cells

poster

Philip, Jasmin

Cdc6 is differentially regulated by PP2A-Cdc55, Cdc14 and Sic1 for origin licensing

talk

Pike, Alexandra M

Dissecting the roles of single-stranded binding proteins in eukaryotic DNA replication

poster

Polo Rivera, Cristian

Pif1-family helicases define an alternative pathway for CMG helicase disassembly in budding yeast

poster

Poovathumkadavil, Divyasree

Ubiquitin chain type and Ubxd7 create the platform for selective replisome disassembly by p97 during S-phase

poster

Prasanth, Supriya G

Orc6 at replication fork enables efficient mismatch repair

talk

Priyanka, PRIYANKA

A long noncoding RNA HMS recruits a RNA binding protein to stabilize the 3’ untranslated region of HOXC10 oncogene

poster

Prorok, Paulina

Mechanism of replisome response to stress

poster

Qian, Chegmin

USP7/PCNA/PAF15-Ub2 complex facilitates the first-wave of DNA methylation maintenance

talk

Quinet, Annabel

Temporally distinct post-replicative repair mechanisms fill PRIMPOL-dependent ssDNA gaps in human cells

poster

Rampazzo, Lucia

BRCA2 preserves chromosomal stability modulating RAD51 activity at centromeres

poster

Rausch, Cathia

Cytosine base modifications regulate DNA duplex stability and metabolism

poster

Regan-Mochrie, Gemma

Regulation of DNA replication by sumoylation of the Origin Recognition Complex

poster

Reusswig, Karl-Uwe

Characteristics, constraints, and consequences of unscheduled replication in G1

talk

Reuter, Maximilian

Mechanisms of MCM2-7 loading and initial DNA melting at near base-pair resolution

poster

Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo

Single-molecule live cell characterization of subunit dynamics in the eukaryotic replisome

poster

Ribeyre, Cyril

The organizer of chromatin topology RIF1 ensures cellular resilience to DNA replication stress

poster

Richards, Logan R

Rif1 interacts with ORC and the Nup107-160 subcomplex, coupling replication initiation to nucleoporins

poster

Safaric, Barbara

The fork protection complex recruits FACT to reorganize nucleosomes during replication

poster

Saito, Yuichiro

MCMBP promotes hexamer formation of the replicative MCM2–7 complex

talk

Saleh, Almutasem

The structural basis of MCM2-7 double hexamer activation and substrate localization by the Cdc7-Dbf4 kinase revealed by several cryo-EM structures

talk

Sanchez, Humberto

DNA replication origins retain mobile licensing proteins

poster

Sanchez, Humberto

Single-molecule visualization of MCM loading on chromatin

poster

Sanders, Jordan B

N-methyl carboline 3-carboxamide is a putative inhibitor of the eukaryotic replicative helicase

poster

Sarni, Dan

Topoisomerase 1 dependent R-loop deficiency drives accelerated replication and genomic instability

poster

Scaramuzza, Shaun

TRAIP is an essential E3 ubiquitin ligase required to resolve DNA replication - transcription collisions

poster

Schirmeisen, Kamila

Novel functions of the S.pombe nuclear basket in promoting Recombination-Dependent Replication.

poster

Schuck, Percy L

CST interacts with the cohesin complex and promotes chromosome cohesion

poster

Scully, Ralph

SLX4 regulates homologous recombination at stalled replication forks

talk

Sheu, Yi-Jun

Prevalent and dynamic binding of the cell cycle checkpoint kinase Rad53 to gene promoters

poster

Sidorova, Julia

Innate immunity mediator STING modulates nascent DNA metabolism at stalled forks in human cells

talk

Silva, Andriele

In-silico analysis of Cdc6, Cdc4 and Clb2 protein-protein interactions during cell cycle

poster

Simon, Itamar

Chromosomal coordination and differential structure of asynchronous replicating regions

talk

Simpson, Trey

A dynamic single-molecule approach to directly visualize the molecular mechanisms of DNA-binding proteins

poster

Smith, Christopher

The role of FACT in parental nucleosome inheritance

poster

Smogorzewska, Agata

Fanconi anemia pathway deficiency drives copy number variation in squamous cell carcinomas

talk

Spenkelink, Lisanne M

Single-molecule visualization of replisome-cohesin encounters

poster

Stein, MaryElizabeth

Not one-size-fits-all—G-quadruplex mutagenesis variability underscores the impact of sequence and structure on DNA polymerase fidelity

poster

Stoy, Henriette

Direct visualization of transcription-replication conflicts reveals post-replicative DNA:RNA hybrids

talk

Su, Zhangli

Cell survival after ORC deletion—Epigenetic dysregulation dependent on CTCF, cohesin and polycomb group proteins and endo-reduplication in normal livers

poster

Taglialatela, Angelo

REV1-Polζ maintains the viability of homologous recombination-deficient cancer cells through mutagenic repair of PRIMPOL-dependent ssDNA gaps

poster

Takahashi, Saori

Single-cell genome-wide DNA replication profiling of early embryonic development in mice

poster

Tanaka, Seiji

Role(s) of Schizosaccharomyces specific N-terminal domain of Sld3

poster

Theulot, Bertrand

Genome-wide mapping of replication fork velocity in S. cerevisiae using nanopore sequencing

poster

Tian, Mengxue

Integrative analysis of DNA replication origins in human cells from 98 profiling datasets to determine association of highest confidence origins with ORC binding sites and transcription start sites

poster

Tirado-Class, Neysha N

DCAF14 promotes replication fork progression to maintain genome integrity

poster

Tramantano, Michael C

CIZ1 is a novel ORC1 interacting protein that functions in replication initiation

talk

Turner, Jesse L

Genetic dissection of early replication control elements implicates the pluripotency transcriptional regulatory network controls replication timing in mouse embryonic stem cells

poster

Twayana, Shyam Sundar

Translesion polymerase eta both facilitates DNA replication and promotes increased human genetic variation at common fragile sites

talk

Ubhi, Tajinder

Cytidine deaminases promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells

poster

Uhlmann, Frank

Establishment of sister chromatid cohesion during DNA replication

talk

Ummethum, Henning

Proximity labeling as a tool to study transcription-replication conflicts

poster

Urban, Jennifer A

Developing genomic systems to study DNA replication-coupled asymmetric histone incorporation in male Drosophila melanogaster germline stem cells

poster

van Oijen, Antoine M

Single-molecule studies of the yeast replisome

talk

Varon, Mor

The helicase Rrm3 is essential for replication progression through leading strand G4 rich sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

poster

Vouzas, Athanasios

Promoter-specific regulatory mechanisms, but not the level or length of transcription elongation, drive early replication timing

poster

Weissmann, Florian

Towards in vitro reconstitution of human DNA replication initiation

poster

Whale, Alex J

Stimulation of adaptive gene amplification by origin firing under replication fork constraint

poster

Williams, Jessica S

Molecular basis for processing of topoisomerase 1-triggered DNA damage by Apn2/APE2

poster

Wittig, Kimberlie

TICRR/TRESLIN protein expression is cell cycle regulated by the CRL4DTL E3 ubiquitin ligase

poster

Wu, Alex

TRAIP's association with the replisome requires multiple interactions and leading strand synthesis

poster

Xia, Yisui

TIMELESS-TIPIN and UBXN-3 promote replisome disassembly during DNA replication termination in C. elegans

talk

Yang, Dongxiao

Structure of PCNA from the thermophilic fungus Chaetomium thermophilum bound to the PIP peptide from the DNA polymerase δ subunit PolD4

poster

Yates, Mailyn

SMARCAL1 ubiquitylation by the RFWD3 Fanconi anemia protein regulates its activity at DNA replication forks

poster

Zeng, Jingkun

Oncogene-induced endoreduplication in p53 proficient cells

poster

Zhang, Liying

Comprehensive OK-Seq analysis reveals unconventional features of replication initiation sites in Tetrahymena

poster

Zhang, Tianpeng

Break induced telomere synthesis—A novel mechanism of homology-directed DNA repair

poster

Zhao, Xiaolan

Understanding Smc5/6—From functions to structures

talk

Zhou, Zhixiong

How asymmetric DNA replication achieves high and symmetrical fidelity

talk

Zhu, Xu-Dong

CSB functions at stalled forks to regulate both fork restart and fork protection in the absence of BRCA1/2

poster

Zou, Lee

PARP inhibitors selectively kill BRCA1/2-deficient cells by inducing trans-cell-cycle ssDNA gaps

talk