Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Les Houches 2019

Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory

Program Schedule

G.V. Shivashankar, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Chair Amartya Sanyal, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Connecting Genomic and Non-Genomic Mechanisms of Cancer Drug Resistance Angelo Rosa, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy From Chromosome Territories to Ring Polymers: Physical Properties of Untangled Polymer Melts Alexandra Zidovska, New York University, USA The "Self-Stirred" Genome: Bulk and Surface Dynamics of the Chromatin Globule

Session X

9:00 – 9:30

9:30 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

Cecile Dewitt Building

Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine, USA, Chair

Session XI

11:00 – 11:20

Artemi Bendandi, University of Genoa, Italy* Mesoscale Bottom-Up Approach to the Study of Chromatin Topological Conformations: From the Nucleosome to 1Mbps Soya Shinkai, RIKEN, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan* Deciphering Hi-C Data into Polymer Dynamics Michele Di Pierro, Rice University, USA* The Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Human Genome: It’s Nuclear Physics!

11:20 – 11:40

11:40 – 12:00

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

Restaurant

13:30 – 17:45

Networking

Amartya Sanyal, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Chair

Session XII

17:45 – 18:15

G.V. Shivashankar, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mechanical Control of Chromosome Organization and Gene Expression

18:15 – 18:45

Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine, USA A 3D Code in the Human Genome Anne Shim, Northwestern University, USA* The Crowded Nanoenvironment Influences Gene Expression

18:45 – 19:05

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

Restaurant

21:00 – 22:00

Poster Session IV

Cecile Dewitt Building

Friday, April 5, 2019 8:30 – 13:30

Information

Cecile Dewitt Building

John van Noort, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Chair

Session XIII

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