| 9:00 Welcome |
| Nicolas Thomä | FMI, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 9:15 Session: Histone and Chromatin |
| (Chair: Ueli Schibler) |
| Edith Heard | EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Anja Groth | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 10:15 Coffee break |
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| 10:45 Session: Telomeres, Replication and Repair |
| (Co-chairs: Geneviève Almouzni and Daniela Rhodes) |
| John Diffley | Francis Crick Institute, London, UK |
| Haico van Attikum | Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| Virginia Zakian | Princeton University, Princeton, USA |
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| 12:15 Lunch break |
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| 13:40 Session: Chromatin Dynamics and Disease |
| (Chair: Erich Nigg) |
| Carl Wu | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| Ana Pombo | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany |
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| 14:40 Coffee break |
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15:00 Session: Developmental Systems
| (Chair: Maria Leptin) |
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| Denis Duboule | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Janet Rossant | University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| Alexander Schier | Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
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| 16:30 Break |
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| 16:50 Musical interlude |
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| 17:20 Introduction |
| Dirk Schübeler | FMI, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 17:30 Susan Gasser | FMI, Basel, Switzerland
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| 18:00 Reception |