Monday, July 10, 2017

Time Event  
13:00 - 14:00 Arrival & Participant registration  
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome address - Gael Cristofari  
14:10 - 15:45 Session 1 - Physiological impact of TEs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Aurélien Doucet  
14:10 - 14:55 › In vivo LINE retrotransposition on zebrafish generates somatic mosaicism on the brain - Keynote speaker: Jose-Luis Garcia-Perez  
14:55 - 15:20 › LINE-1 retrotransposon repression attenuates neurodegeneration in adult dopaminergic neurons - Julia Fuchs  
15:20 - 15:45 › The novel DNA methyltransferase DNMT3C protects male fertility against transposon activity - Joan Barau  
15:45 - 17:10 Poster session (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus) - Refreshments  
17:10 - 18:25 Session 1 - Physiological impact of TEs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Aurélien Doucet  
17:10 - 17:35 › A link between steroid signaling pathways and L1 retrotransposition - Ramona Galantonu  
17:35 - 18:00 › Environmental stress affects TE activity and gene expression profiles - Judit Salces Ortiz  
18:00 - 18:25 › Six domesticated piggyBac transposases together carry out programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium - Mireille Bétermier  
18:25 - 19:30 Beer degustation (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus)  

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:35 Session 2 - TE regulation & small RNAs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Gael Cristofari  
09:00 - 09:45 › Retrotransposons meet antiviral RNAi: control of virus infections in insects - Keynote speaker: Carla Saleh  
09:45 - 10:10 › First demonstration of the direct role of the piRNA pathway as key player in genome maintenance. - Bridlin Barckmann  
10:10 - 10:35 › The germline piRNA clusters act as an heritable sequence memory of passed TE invasions - Emilie Brasset  
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee break (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus)  
11:05 - 12:20 Session 2 - TE regulation & small RNAs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Gael Cristofari  
11:05 - 11:30 › Deciphering the link between RNA modifications and small RNA pathways in the control of transposable elements and neuronal disorders. - Clement Carre  
11:30 - 11:55 › Subtelomeric piRNA cluster: to have or not have - Laure Teysset  
11:55 - 12:20 › Biology of a piRNA cluster : flamenco as a model - Nolwenn Mouniee  
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch (buffet) (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus)  
14:00 - 15:30 Poster session (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus) - Refreshments  
15:30 - 16:45 Session 3a - Origin, evolution and dynamics of TEs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Dominic van Essen  
15:30 - 15:55 › Invasion of experimental populations by a transposable element and interactions between copies. - Aurélie Hua-Van  
15:55 - 16:20 › Evolutionary genome dynamics in domesticated and wild yeasts - Jia-Xing Yue  
16:20 - 16:45 › Retrotransposition dynamics in more than 100 mammalian genomes - Nicolas Gilbert  
16:45 - 19:00 Free time  
19:00 - 23:00 Gala dinner at "Le St Paul" restaurant  

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:15 Session 3b - Origin, evolution and dynamics of TEs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Nicolas Gilbert  
09:00 - 09:25 › The 3000 rice genomes unravel TE-driven genome dynamics in the fields - Marie-Christine Carpentier  
09:25 - 09:50 › ISGeneSyntheny: A web server for large-scale analysis of genetic context associated to the insertion sequences and their putative roles. - Sebastien Tempel  
09:50 - 10:15 › Very high diversity of integrative and mobilizable elements in Streptococci: a glimpse into an unexplored world - Gérard Guédon  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus)  
10:45 - 12:00 Session 3b - Origin, evolution and dynamics of TEs (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Chair: Nicolas Gilbert  
10:45 - 11:10 › Overview of mariner-like elements in Aphid genomes: Diversity and evolution - Maryem Bouallègue  
11:10 - 11:35 › Dynamic interactions between the genome and an endogenous retrovirus: lessons from tirant in Drosophila simulans - Marie Fablet  
11:35 - 12:00 › Massive horizontal transfer of transposable elements in insects - Clément Gilbert  
12:00 - 12:10 Closing remarks (Theater of the "Grand Chateau", Valrose Campus) - Gael Cristofari  
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch (Lunch bag to eat-in or take away) (Backyard Garden of Theater, Valrose Campus)