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KITP Program: Biological Physics of Chromosomes
(Jun 15 - Jul 17, 2020)
Coordinators: Ralf Everaers, Alexander Grosberg, and Alexandra Zidovska
Scientific Advisor: Job Dekker

Date Time Speaker Title
6/15, 8:00 AM PDT All Participants Welcoming Remarks, Meet & Greet[Protected][Video]
6/16, 8:00 AM PDT Cees Dekker
(TU Delft)
SMC proteins for DNA loop extrusion and phase separation[Video]
6/16, 10:00 AM PDT All Participants Further Discussion on SMC proteins for DNA loop extrusion and phase separation[Video]
6/18, 8:00 AM PDT Irina Solovei
(LMU Munich)
Spatial organization of transcribed eukaryotic genes[Slides][Video]
6/19, 8:00 AM PDT Moderator:
Rachel Patton McCord
(UTK)
Discussion 1: SMCs[Protected][Video]
6/19, 9:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Kirill Polovnikov
(MIT)
Angelo Rosa
(SISSA)
Discussion 2: Loops[Protected][Video]

6/22, 8:00 AM PDT All Participants Meet & Greet[Protected][Video]
6/23, 8:00 AM PDT Job Dekker
(UMass Med)
Building the compartmentalized interphase nucleus[Video]
6/25, 8:00 AM PDT Leonid Mirny
(MIT)
Two mechanisms of chromosome organization: loop extrusion and compartmentalization[Video]
6/26, 8:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Jan Smrek
(Univ. of Vienna)
Eleni Panagiotou
(Chattanooga)
Discussion 3: Knots/Entanglements[Protected][Video]
6/26, 9:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Daniel Jost
(ENS Lyon)
Massa Shoura
(Stanford Medical)
Discussion 4: DNA Damage[Protected][Video]

6/29, 8:00 AM PDT All Participants Meet & Greet[Protected][Video]
6/29, 9:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Gary Karpen
(Berkeley)
Mario Nicodemi
(Univ. of Naples)
Discussion 5: Phase Separations[Protected][Video]
6/30, 8:00 AM PDT Helmut Schiessel
(Leiden University)
Demultiplexing information written along DNA molecules[Slides][Video]
7/01, 8:00 AM PDT Krastan Blagoev
(NSF)
NSF Funding Opportunities
7/01, 9:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Jan Smrek
(Univ. of Vienna)
Eleni Panagiotou
(Chattanooga)
Discussion 6: Knots/Entanglements[Protected][Video]
7/02, 8:00 AM PDT Clodagh O'Shea
(Salk Institute)
Cracking The Nucleus[Video]

7/06, 8:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Anna Panchenko
(Queen's Univ.)
Tom Bishop
(La. Tech)
Discussion 7: Genome Mechanics[Protected][Video]
7/06, 9:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Gary Karpen
(Berkeley)
Mario Nicodemi
(Univ. of Naples)
Discussion 8: Phase Separations[Protected][Video]
7/06, 12:15 PM PDT Alexandra Zidovska
(NYU)
The Other Nuclear Physics: From Genes to Genome[Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
7/07, 8:00 AM PDT Sam Safran
(Weizmann Institute)
Nuclear-scale chromatin organization modified by lamin layer attractions and hydration effects[Slides][Video]
7/09, 8:00 AM PDT Changbong Hyeon
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Polymer physics perspective on the chromatin inside cell nuclei[Slides][Video]
7/10, 8:00 AM PDT Moderators:
Vladimir Teif
(Essex)
Cedric Vaillant
(ENS Lyon)
Discussion 9: Nucleosome Positioning[Protected][Video]

7/13, 8:00 AM PDT Jan Smrek
(Univ. of Vienna)
Eleni Panagiotou
(Chattanooga)
Discussion 10: Knots & Entanglements[Protected][Video]
7/13, 9:00 AM PDT Gary Karpen
(Berkeley)
Mario Nicodemi
(Univ. of Naples)
Discussion 11: Phase Separations[Protected][Video]
7/14, 8:00 AM PDT Krastan Blagoev
(NSF & Johns Hopkins University)
Nonequilibrium phase separation in a cooperative reaction-diffusion model[Video]
7/16, 8:00 AM PDT Arup Chakraborty
(MIT)
RNA-mediated non-equilibrium feedback regulation of transcription[Canceled]
7/17, 8:00 AM PDT All Participants Discussion 12: Open Questions & Closing Remarks[Protected][Video]

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