Program

Monday, July 4th

12:00 - 13:30  Lunch and registration   

13:30 - 13:40  Welcome remarks              

13:40 - 14:30   Keynote talk. Fred Dyda, Structure-based redesign of piggyBac: Releasing its inner potential          

14:30 - 14:50  Somia Saidi Characterization of Transposable Elements in Pangenomes

14:50 - 15:10   Olivia Charmant, A tandem zinc finger protein is required for small RNA turnover during programmed genome elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia           

15:10 - 16:10  Coffee Poster session                

16:10 - 16:30   Marine Duhamel, Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in non-recombining regions of anther-smut fungi

16:30 - 16:50   Eric Baranowski, ICE invasion into genome-reduced bacteria is driven by a lipoprotein exposed on the surface of the recipient cell

16:50 - 17:10   Raúl Castanera, Impact of transposon insertion polymorphisms on rice transcriptional and phenotypic variation

17:10 - 17:30   Aline Martins, The somatic piRNA pathway is developmentally regulated during oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

17:30 - 17:50   Pierre Baduel, Transposable element sequences and their epigenetic control in plants: engines of rapid adaptation?

Tuesday, July 5th                

9:30 - 10:20     Keynote talk - Ian Henderson, Invasion of the Arabidopsis centromeres by ATHILA retrotransposons           

10:20 - 10:40   Sandra Duharcourt, Control of transposable elements by Polycomb in Paramecium

10:40 - 11:00  Johann Confais, REPET evolutions: faster and easier          

11:00 - 11:20  Coffee break          

11:20 - 11:40   J. Berthelier, Epigenetically regulated alternative TE-gene isoforms impact gene transcription and function in Arabidopsis thaliana

11:40 - 12:00   Nicolas Aryanpour, Cryo-EM structures of a Tn3 family transposase unveils a new metamorphic mechanism for transposition activation

12:00 - 12:20  Natalia Rubanova, Genomic approaches to the study of somatic transposition

12:20 - 12:40   Mohadeseh S. Tahami, Seeking connection between TEs and adaptation to the cold environments, a case study from Drosophila montana        

12:40 - 14:00  Lunch           

14:00 - 14:50   Keynote talk - Mariangela Bonizzoni, Endogenous Viral Elements in mosquito genomes: relicts or functional elements?           

14:50 - 15:10   Camille A Mayeux, Control of transposable elements and response to viral infection in Drosophila

15:10 - 15:30   Klaus Von Grafenstein, MITE-driven dissemination of regulatory elements in the maize genome

15:30 - 15:40  Sponsor talk        

15:40 - 16:20  Coffee Poster session               

16:20 - 16:40   Moaine El Baidouri, Large-scale and genome-wide identification of Horizontal Transfers reveals new insights into possible routes of inter-species genetic exchange in non-parasitic plants

16:40 - 17:00   Abdou Akkouche, Role of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) in the control of transposable elements in Drosophila germline

17:00 - 17:20   Miriam Merenciano, Contribution of transposable elements in the sex gap longevity of different Drosophila species

17:20 - 17:40   Rania Znaidi, LINE-1 ORF1p is targeting nuclear envelope components in a human neuronal model of aging

17:40 - 17:50  Sponsor talk            

17:50 - 18:40  Poster session               

19:30 - 23:00  Gala dinner (Gramophone, 27 Bd Dubreuil, Orsay)

Wednesday, July 6th                   

09:30 - 10:20   Keynote talk - Anne Roulin, Transposable element evolution in plants: What can we (still) learn from small genomes?           

10:20 - 10:40   Rita Rebollo, Transposable element regulation in the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae and its potential association with an endosymbiotic bacteria

10:40 - 11:00  Arnaud Le Rouzic, Modelling the interspecific distribution of TE copy numbers

11:00 - 11:20   Vinciane Régnier. Developmental timing of programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia recapitulates germline transposon evolutionary dynamics           

12:20 - 14:00  Lunch