PROGRAM
19th of May, Thursday - Arrival
20th of May, Friday
9:20 - 9:55
Opening remarks (Péter Vilmos) and historical lecture:
"To see what everyone else has seen, and to think what nobody has thought."
Beáta Bugyi, University of Pécs, Hungary
Chair: Brian C. Freeman
9:55 - 10:20
Nanoscopic analysis of actin assembly in developing myofibrils
Szilárd Szikora, BRC Szeged, Hungary
10:20 - 10:45
Coordination of actin dynamics by formin proteins
Beáta Bugyi, University of Pécs, Hungary
10:45 - 11:10
Formin-mediated nuclear actin assembly: from chromatin dynamics to transcriptional regulation
Robert Grosse, University of Freiburg, Germany
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:55
MRTF/SRF "inhibitors"
Maria Vartiainen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
11:55 - 12:20
Parallel import mechanisms ensure the robust nuclear localization of actin in Drosophila
Péter Vilmos, BRC Szeged, Hungary
12:20 - 12:45
Organisation of transcription by nuclear myosin and actin
Christopher Toseland, University of Sheffield, UK
12:45- 14:00 Lunch
Chair: Piergiorgio Percipalle
14:00 - 14:25
Role of unconventional myosin VI in nucleolar organization and function (zoom lecture)
Maria Jolanta Rędowicz, Nencki Institute of Exp. Biology, Warsaw Poland
14:25 - 14:50
Uncovering the roles of nuclear actin during Drosophila oogenesis (zoom lecture)
Tina Tootle, University of Iowa, Iowa city, USA
14:50 - 15:15
Architectural control of mesenchymal stem cell phenotype through nuclear actin (zoom lecture)
Janet Rubin, University of North Carolina, USA
15:15 - 15:40
DNA repair and mis-repair in 3D (zoom lecture)
Jean Gautier, Columbia University, New York, USA
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Ship tour on the Tisza river
19:00 - 19:45 City tour by train
20:00 - Dinner in a local restaurant htps://www.facebook.com/napfenymuterem
21st of May, Saturday
Chair: Maria Vartiainen
9:20 - 9:45
Nuclear actin promotes transcription factory formation through co-phase separation (zoom lecture)
Yujie Sun, Peking University, Peking, China
9:45 - 10:10
Nuclear F-actin for embryonic development and nuclear reprogramming
Kei Miyamoto, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
10:10 - 10:35
The role of actin in the 3D spatial organization of the mammalian genome and impact on gene expression regulation
Piergiorgio Percipalle , New York Univ., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
10:35 - 11:00
The role of the nucleoskeleton in genome reorganization
Brian C. Freeman, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, USA
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:45
A mechanoresponsive signalling pathway at the nuclear envelope that promotes nuclear F-actin
Eric O'Neill, University of Oxford, UK
11:45 - 12:10
Mechanical induction of nuclear reprogramming and cellular rejuvenation
G.V. Shivashankar, ETH-Zürich & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
12:10 - 12:35
Emerging roles of nuclear phosphoinositides in gene expression
Pavel Hozák, Inst. of Mol. Gen. of the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
12:35 - 13:00
Concluding remarks/Round table on the future of the network
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
15:00 - 18:00 Bridge fair + wine festival
18:00 - 21:00 Dinner in a local restaurant https://www.kiskorossyhalaszcsarda.hu/
22nd of May, Sunday - Departure
PARTICIPANTS
- BEÁTA BUGYI University of Pécs, Hungary beata.bugyi@aok.pte.hu
- BRIAN C. FREEMAN Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, USA bfreeman@life.illinois.edu
- JEAN GAUTIER Columbia
University, New York, USA jg130@cumc.columbia.edu
- ROBERT GROSSE University of Freiburg, Germany robert.grosse@pharmakol.uni-freiburg.de
- PAVEL HOZÁK Inst. of Mol. Gen. of the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic pavel.hozak@img.cas.cz
- KEI MIYAMOTO Kindai University, Osaka, Japan kmiyamo@waka.kindai.ac.jp
- ERIC O'NEILL University of Oxford, UK eric.oneill@oncology.ox.ac.uk
- PIERGIORGIO PERCIPALLE New York Univ., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates pp69@nyu.edu
- MARIA JOLANTA RĘDOWICZ Nencki Institute of Exp. Biology, Warsaw Poland j.redowicz@nencki.gov.pl
- JANET RUBIN University
of North Carolina, USA jrubin@med.unc.edu
- GV SHIVASHANKAR ETH-Zürich
& Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland shiva.gvs@gmail.com
- YUJIE SUN Peking
University, Peking, China sun_yujie@pku.edu.cn
- SZILÁRD SZIKORA BRC Szeged, Hungary szikora.szilard@brc.hu
- TINA TOOTLE University
of Iowa, Iowa city, USA tina-tootle@uiowa.edu
- CHRISTOPHER TOSELAND University of Sheffield, UK c.toseland@sheffield.ac.uk
- MARIA VARTIAINEN University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland maria.vartiainen@helsinki.fi
- PETER VILMOS BRC Szeged, Hungary vilmosp@brc.hu