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2002 Annual Retreat Program

8:30 - 9:15 Arrival, Poster Set-Up and Continental Breakfast

9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks – Dr. Céline Gélinas

Morning Session I:

9:30 - 9:45 Dr. Chavela Carr
The taming of the SNARE

9:45 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker– Dr. Arnold Levine
The p53 apoptotic pathway

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Morning Session II : Chair: Chi Wei Lu (Dr. M. Roth)

11:00 - 11:15 Andrei Kuzmichev (Dr. D. Reinberg)
The human enhancer of Zeste multi-protein complex, PRC2, has histone methyltransferase activity

11:15 - 11:30 Dr. Ellen Doss-Pepe (Dr. K. Madura)
Ataxin-3, the causative agent in Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD), can bind multiubiquitinated proteins, interacts with p97/VCP, and is an associated factor of the 26S proteasome

11:30 - 11:45 Dr. Patrizia Cassacia-Bonnefil
Histone deacetylation is necessary for oligodendrocyte differentiation

11:45 - 12:00 Dr. Michael Hampsey
Interplay between the transcription initiation and mRNA processing machineries

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Recreational Activities

Poster Session

1:30 - 3:30 Posters, Refreshments and Viennese Table

Afternoon Session Chair: Natalie Stano (Dr. S. Patel)

3:30 - 3:45 Muhammad Zaidi (Dr. K. Chada)
Stringent regulation of HMGA2 expression is crucial for adipogenesis

3:45 - 4:00 Dr. Vikki Robinson (Dr. A. Stock)
Structural studies of a switch protein containing two GTPase domains, Thermotoga maritima Der

4:00 - 4:15William Fricke (Dr. S. Brill)
Characterization of the S. cerevisiaeMus81 Mms4 Endonuclease