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Programme
Day 1 (Wednesday September 24th, 2025)
| 13:00 | Registration |
| 14:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 14:10 | Plenary Session I: Chromatin Organization |
| Chair: Sigurd Braun | |
| 14:10 | Talk 1: Argyris Papantonis “Senescent cell co-opt CTCF and nuclear speckle component to sustain their splicing program” |
| 14:40 | Talk 2: Ana Pombo “TBA” |
| 15:10 | Short Talk 1: TBA; selected from abstracts |
| 15:25 | Break & Visit of Industrial Exhibition |
| 16:00 | Poster Flash Talks (A-K) |
| 16:50 | Talk 3: Philipp Korber “Order through disorder – functional determinants of an intrinsically disordered region in the yeast insulator Abf1” |
| 17:20 | Max-Delbrück-Lecture: Peter B. Becker “Male-specific lethality in flies: From phenomenon to mechanism” |
| 18:30 | End of Day 1 |
Day 2 (Thursday September 25th, 2025)
| 09:00 | Plenary Session II: Chromatin & Cell Functions |
| Chair: Axel Imhof | |
| 09:00 | Talk 4: Valentin Flury “Maintaining chromatin across cell division: Lessons learned from DNA replication” |
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Day 2 (Thursday September 25th, 2025)
09:00 Plenary Session II: Chromatin & Cell Functions
Chair: Axel Imhof
09:00 Talk 4: Valentin Flury “Maintaining chromatin across cell division: Lessons learned from DNA replication”
09:30 Short Talk 2: TBA; selected from abstracts
09:45 Talk 5: Alexander Brehm “The interplay of chromatin regulators and multi-zinc finger proteins in Drosophila”
10:15 Talk 6: Sigurd Braun “A regulatory hub for silent chromatin and gene repression”
10:45 Break & Visit of Industrial Exhibition
11:15 Poster Flash Talks (L-Z)
12:00 Plenary Session III: Histone Variants
Chair: Sandra Hake
12:00 Short Talk 4: TBA; selected from abstracts
12:15 Talk 7: Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray ”Regulation of centromere function by PTMs on CENP-A in yeast”
12:45 Lunch & Poster presentations (A-K)
14:30 Short Talk 4: TBA; selected from abstracts
14:45 Talk 8: Patrick Heun “Less is more – the minimalistic fruit fly centromere”
15:15 Talk 9: Sylvia Erhardt “Locus-specific protein profiling identifies the bromodomain inhibitor JQ1 as a molecular glue targeting centromeres”
15:45 Short Talk 5: TBA; selected from abstracts
16:00 Break & Visit of Industrial Exhibition
16:30 Plenary Session IV: Chemical Modifications of Chromatin
Chair: Alexander Brehm
16:30 Talk 10: Rodrigo Villasenor “Reading the silent mark: Discovery of a novel family of DNA-methylation dependent readers in transcriptional regulation”
17:00 Talk 11: Axel Imhof “The role of RNA in centromere structure and function”
17:30 Short Talk 7: TBA; selected from abstracts
17:45 Short Talk 8: TBA; selected from abstracts
18:00 End of Day 2
19:00 Speakers Dinner
Day 3 (Friday September 26th, 2025)
09:00 Plenary Session V: Chromatin in Health & Disease
Chair: Patrick Heun
09:00 Talk 12: Sandra Schick “BAF chromatin remodellers in development and disease”
09:30 Short Talk 9: TBA; selected from abstracts
09:45 Talk 13: Fides Zenk “Single-cell epigenomic reconstruction of developmental trajectories from pluripotency in human brain organoids”
10:15 Break & Visit of Industrial Exhibition
10:45 Short Talk 10: TBA; selected from abstracts
11:00 Talk 13: Marcus Buschbeck “Non-metabolic functions of macrodomain-containing histone variants in cancer”
11:30 Lunch & Poster presentations (L-Z)
13:00 Talk of Elizabeth-Gateff Prize 2025 Winner: TBA
14:00 Prize for Best Poster/ShortTalk and Conclusions
14:30 End of Symposium
15:00 GfG Members Meeting