End of the school year GALA

Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal

Keynote speaker

June 3rd 2025: please note this is a Tuesday

1:30 PM         Welcome Remarks

1:45 PM       Keynote lecture: Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal, University of Cambridge

title TBD

2:45 PM           coffee break

3:00 PM Matt Johnson

Mechanism of resection at double-strand breaks formed during replication 

3:15 PM          Gabriella Chua

A non-catalytic role for RFC in PCNA-mediated processive DNA synthesis

3:30 PM         George Zakusilo

An essential role for primate Ku in the nucleolus

3:45 PM         Victor Leon

Crossover designation recruits condensin to reorganize the meiotic chromosome axis

4:00 PM         Cayla Broton

RTF2 localizes CHK1 to the replication fork to control S phase progression

4:15- 6:00   Poster Session and Reception