International Symposium of Genetics 2015, 4/21 – 4/25

International Symposium of Genetics 2015, Fudan University
2015年度谈家桢遗传学国际论坛

Tuesday, April 21 – Friday, April 24, 2015

4/21 Tuesday Room 202, Guanghua East Sub Tower, Fudan University
Arrival and On-site Registration

1:30 pm-1:40 pm Li Jin (Fudan University)
Welcome Remarks

Session 1 Chair: Tao Zhong
1:45 pm – 2:55 pm Eric Olson (member of National Academy of Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
Mechanisms of Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration
2:55 pm – 3:10 pm Coffee Break
3:10 pm – 3:45 pm Dazhi Wang (Harvard Medical School, USA)
microRNAs in heart development and function
3:45 pm – 4:10 pm Tao Zhong (Fudan University)
Regulation of Ciliogenesis and Cardiac Development

4/22 Wednesday Room 102, Guanghua East Sub Tower, Fudan University
8:30 am – 8:50 am Opening Ceremony

Session 2 Chair: Hong Ma
8:50 am – 9:25 am Weizhi Ji (Kunming Biomed International)
Nonhuman primates, a valuable animal model for human disease
9:25 am – 9:40 am Group Photograph
9:40 am – 9:55 am Coffee Break
9:55 am -10:30 am Li Jin (member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University)
TBA
10:30 am – 11:05 am Shuo Lin (UCLA, USA)
Modeling rare and undiagnosed human diseases in zebrafish
11:05 am – 11:40 am Jiang Liu (Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS)
Programming and Inheritance of Parental DNA Methylomes in Vertebrates
11:40 am – 1:30 pm Lunch

Session 3 Chair: Hongyan Wang
1:30 pm – 2:05 pm Zhuohua Zhang (Central South University)
Molecular dissection of Parkinson disease
2:05 pm – 2:40 pm Lee Niswander (U of Colorado, USA)
Neural tube defects from the viewpoint of genetics, epigenetics and live imaging
2:40 pm – 3:05 pm Jianhong Zhu (Huashan Hospital, Fudan University)
TBA
3:05 pm – 3:20 pm Coffee Break
3:20 pm – 3:55 pm Jun Yu (Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
TBA
3:55 pm – 4:30 pm Daniel Falush (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
The painting palettes of human ancestry
4:30 pm – 4:55 pm Shimin Zhao (Fudan University)
Regulating Ribose-5-P Production by Cell-Cycle Dependent Transketolase Like Gene 1 (TKTL1) Expression

4/23 Thursday Room 102, Guanghua East Sub Tower, Fudan University

Session 4 Chair: Liang Cai
8:30 am – 8:55 am Wenqiang Yu (Fudan University)
DNA methylation, Challenge and Chance
8:55 am – 9:30 am John R. Speakman (Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS)
Non-genetic variation in susceptibility to high fat diet
9:30 am – 9:45 am Coffee Break
9:45 am – 10:20 am Li Yang (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology)
Life without A tail: biogenesis of circular RNAs
10:20 am – 10:45 am Binglian Zheng (Fudan University)
Lariat RNAs inhibit miRNA biogenesis by sequestration of the microprocessor in Arabidopsis
10:45 am – 11:10 am Jianxiang Liu (Fudan University)
Transcription factor interaction with COMPASS-like complex regulates histone H3K4 trimethylation for specific gene expression in plants
11:10 am – 1:30 pm Lunch

Session 5 Chair: Feng Zhang
1:30 pm – 2:05 pm Pawel Stankiewicz (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
How much of de novo is meiotic?
2:05 pm – 2:40 pm Qinghua Shi (USTC)
Mutations cause meiotic defects in infertile human males
2:40 pm – 3:15 pm Xiang Gao (Nanjing University)
TBA
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm Kun Tang (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology)
TBA
3:55 pm – 4:20 pm Hongyan Wang (Fudan University)
TBA
4:20 pm- 4:45 pm Shijia Wang (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology)
EDAR-V370A – a small mutation making a big difference in human evolution.

4/24 Friday Room 102, Guanghua East Sub Tower, Fudan University

Session 6 Chair: Shimin Zhao
8:30 am -9:05 am Weidong Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Histone demethylase PHF8 mutation induced learning deficit by activating mTOR pathway in knockout mice
9:05 am – 9:40 am William Yang (UCLA, USA)
Integrated mouse genetic and genomic approaches to dissect Huntington’s disease pathogenesis
9:40 am – 9:55 am Coffee Break
9:55 am – 10:30 am Jean Krutmann (Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Germany)
CSB-related epigenetic regulation and skin phenotype
10:30 am – 11:05 am Tian Xu (Yale University, USA)
TBA
11:05 am – 12:00 pm Lunch