Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Les Houches 2019

Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory

Program Schedule

Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory Les Houches, France March 31-April 5, 2019 PROGRAM

Sunday, March 31, 2019 18:00 – 19:30

Registration/Information

Cecile Dewitt Building

19:30 – 21:00

Opening Dinner

Restaurant

Monday, April 1, 2019 8:30 – 17:00

Registration/Information

Cecile Dewitt Building

8:45 – 9:00

Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA Opening Remarks

Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA, Chair

Session I

9:00 – 9:30

Mair Churchill, University of Colorado, Denver, USA Histone Trafficking During Chromatin Replication

9:30 – 10:00

Ivet Bahar, University of Pittsburgh, USA Chromatin Dynamics Studied by the Gaussian Network Model: Short- and Long-Range Couplings Between Gene Loci Anna Panchenko, NCBI, NIH, USA Integrating in Silico and in Vitro Approaches to Characterize Nucleosome Structure and Dynamics with High Precision

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

Cecile Dewitt Building

Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University, The Netherlands , Chair

Session II

11:00 – 11:30

Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland, USA Structural Plasticity of Histone Oligomers and Their Interactions with Chaperones and Other Regulators Alexey Onufriev, Virginia Tech, USA* DNA Accessibility Control in the Nucleosome: Insights from Physics Jürgen Walther, IRB Barcelona, Spain* From DNA to Chromatin: Multiscale Models from Atomistic to KB Level

11:30 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:10

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

Restaurant

13:30 – 17:00

Networking

Lars Nordenskiöld, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Chair

Session III

17:00 – 17:30

Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University, The Netherlands The Mechanical Genome

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