Schedule for 2025/26 year:

October 8, December 10, February 11, April 8, June 1

All are on Wednesdays, except for the Gala, which is on June 1st, Monday!

February 11th 2026

1:30 PM         Welcome Remarks

1:40 PM       Iestyn Whitehouse (MSKCC)

New methods to map chromatin structure

2:10 PM Lorraine Symington (Columbia University)

Chromatin remodeling is coupled to DNA double-strand break end resection

2:40 PM           Isaac Dumoulin (Columbia University)

PARG inhibition impairs single-strand break repair by sequestering XRCC1 and its binding partners in nuclear condensates

2:55 PM  coffee break

3:15 PM          David Ontoso (MSKCC)

A multi-species toolkit of TOP2 hyper-cleavage mutants for studying topoisomerase II–mediated DNA damage

3:30 PM         Sevinc Ercan (NYU)

How does RNA Pol II impact cohesin and condensin loading and translocation in vivo?

4:00 PM        Viviana Risca (Rockefeller University)

Measuring mesoscale chromatin compaction and its regulation by histone H1

4:30- 5:30   Reception