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All plenary and poster sessions will be held at the conference hall of Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge. Official language of the meeting is English.

FRIDAY JUNE 14

15:00 - 17:30

Registration

17:00 - 17:30

Tea & Snacks

17:30-17:50

WELCOME ADDRESS AND INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS

Alexei Zavarzin (St. Petersburg University, Russia)
Kenneth Cowan (Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, University of Nebraska Medical Center, U.S.A.)
Sergei Inge-Vechtomov (St. Petersburg University and Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

17:50-18:50

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Lawrence Loeb (University of Washington, USA) “Human cancers express a mutator phenotype: origin, consequences and targeting”

19:15

Dinner at restaurant “РесторанЪ” (Tamozhennyy per. 2; a five- minute walk from the conference venue)

SATURDAY JUNE 15

9:30-13:00

DNA REPLICATION MECHANISMS AND FORK DYNAMICS

9:30 - 9:55

Luca Pellegrini (University of Cambridge, U.K.) “Mechanism for priming DNA synthesis in eukaryotic replication”

9:55 - 10:00

Discussion

10:00 - 10:25

Tahir Tahirov (Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, U.S.A.) “Structure and function of human B family DNA polymerases”

10:25 - 10:30

Discussion

10:30 - 10:48

Erik Johansson (Umea University, Sweden) “Enzymatic properties of yeast DNA polymerase epsilon”

10:48 - 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:40

Hiroyuki Araki (National Institute of Genetics, Japan) “Establishment of replication forks at origins”

11:40 - 11:45

Discussion

11:45 - 12:03

Helmut Pospiech (University of Oulu, Finland, and Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Germany) “Distinctive activities of human replicative DNA polymerases during S phase – DNA polymerase epsilon, but not DNA polymerases alpha/delta are associated with lamins throughout S phase”

12:03 - 12:21

Amir Aharoni (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) “Tight regulation of PCNA-mediated DNA replication in S. cerevisiae”

12:21 - 12:46

Luis Blanco (Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spain) “PrimPol, an archaic DNA primase/DNA polymerase in human cells”

12:46 - 12:51

Discussion

13:00

Lunch at Sevilla restaurant at Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge
Round-table lunch for students and postdoctoral fellows: Meet a speaker

14:00 - 17:00

Free time

17:00 - 18:30

Poster session #1

18:45 - 19:45

Dinner at Sevilla restaurant at Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge

20:00-22:00

CELLULAR RESPONSES TO REPLICATION IMPEDIMENTS

20:00 - 20:30

Peter Burgers (Washington University School of Medicine, USA) “How do replication forks signal stress?”

20:30 - 20:35

Discussion

20:35 - 21:05

Helle Ulrich (Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH, Germany) “Mechanism of ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass”

21:05 - 21:10

Discussion

21:10 - 21:27

Haruo Ohmori (Gakushuin University, Japan) “REV7 versus MAD2”

21:27 - 21:44

Alena Makarova (Washington University School of Medicine, U.S.A.) “DNA polymerase ζ and Rev1-mediated mutagenesis in yeast”

21:44 - 22:00

Ekaterina Beloussova (Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) “Multiply damaged sites repair: participation of BER and translesion DNA synthesis”

SUNDAY JUNE 16

9:30 - 13:05

SHAPING THE GENOME BY MUTATION AND RECOMBINATION (PART I)

9:30 - 10:00

Svend Petersen-Mahrt (IFOM-Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Italy) “DNA instability is enhancing genome dynamics in immunity and epigenetics”

10:00 - 10:05

Discussion

10:30 - 10:35

Youri Pavlov (Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, USA) “Genome-wide mutation avalanches in diploid yeast cells”

10:35 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:58

Andrei Chabes (Umea University, Sweden) “dNTPs and maintenance of genome stability”

10:58 - 11:18

Coffee break

11:18 - 11:48

Roel Schaaper (NIEHS, USA) “DNA precursors and DNA replication fidelity”

11:48 - 11:53

Discussion

11:53 - 12:11

Nicholas Burgis (Eastern Washington University, U.S.A.) “Removal of noncanonical purines from nucleoside triphosphate pools”

12:11 - 12:41

Bradley Preston (University of Washington, USA) “Genetic instability and cancer:  Walking the mutator high wire”

12:41 - 12:46

Discussion

12:46 - 13:04

Iwona Fijalkowska (Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) “Contribution of non-catalytic components of replisome to the final fidelity of replication”

13:05

Lunch at Sevilla restaurant at Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge

14:00 - 17:00

Free time

17:00 - 18:30

Poster session #2

18:45 - 19:45

Dinner at Sevilla restaurant at Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge

20:00-22:05

SHAPING THE GENOME BY MUTATION AND RECOMBINATION (PART II)

20:00-20:50

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Michael Lynch (Indiana University, USA) “Evolution of the mutation rate”

20:50 - 21:00

Discussion

21:00 - 21:25

Anna Malkova (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, U.S.A.) “Molecular mechanisms of genetic instabilities resulting from Break-Induced Replication”

21:25 - 21:30

Discussion

21:30 - 21:48

Martin Kupiec (Tel Aviv University, Israel) “Effect of nuclear architecture on the efficiency of double-strand break repair”

21:48 - 22:06

Andrei Kuzminov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.) “Ultraviolet-induced chromosomal fragmentation: pathways, mechanisms, and contribution to lethality”

MONDAY JUNE 17

9:30 - 13:05

DIVERSE PATHWAYS IN HEREDITY AND DISEASE

9:30 - 10:00

Sergei Mirkin (Tufts University, U.S.A.) “Genome weak links”

10:00 - 10:05

Discussion

10:05 - 10:35

Polina Shcherbakova (Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, USA) “Mutagenic replication in DNA damage response and human cancer”

10:35 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30

Richard Wood (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) “Mammalian DNA polymerase ζ and cancer”

11:30 - 11:35

Discussion

11:35 - 12:05

Roland Lill (Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany) “The role of mitochondria and iron-sulfur protein biogenesis in genome stability and DNA metabolism”

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 12:28

Shay Ben-Aroya (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) “Characterization of CIA2, a conserved gene with a role in maintaining the stability of chromosomes”

12:28 - 12:58

Yury Chernoff (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) “Heritable variability at the protein level”

12:58 - 13:03

Discussion

13:05

Lunch at Sevilla restaurant at Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge

14:00 - 15:00

Free time

15:00

Boat trip to Peterhoff

16:00 - 18:00

Tour of Peterhoff Palace and Park

18:00

Banquet dinner at “Summer Palace” restaurant, St. Petersburg shosse, 130/7, Peterhoff

After the end of the banquet - return to the hotels by buses


List of Poster Presenters




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