List of invited speakers |
| Keynotes lectures |
| Orlando D. Schärer | Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| Studying nucleotide excision repair and interstrand crosslink repair with the help of chemical approaches |
| Lei Li | Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA |
| DNA interstrand crosslink repair and Fanconi anemia |
| Wim Vermeulen | Department of Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Mammalian nucleotide excision repair |
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| Nucleotide excision repair - USA |
| Ben Van Houten | Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Structure-function studies of bacterial nucleotide excision repair proteins: Watching DNA repair, one molecule at a time |
| Nicholas E. Geacintov | Chemistry Department, New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| The impact of base sequence context on the removal of DNA lesions by NER |
| Vesna Rapic-Otrin | Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| DDB1-CUL4B(DDB2) E3 ligase-dependent ubiquitination of the core histones destabilizes mononucleosomes containing UV damaged DNA |
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| Inter - strand crosslink repair / Fanconi anemia - USA |
| Puck Knipscheer | Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Boston, MA, USA |
| The molecular mechanism of replication-coupled DNA interstrand crosslink repair |
| Karen M. Vasquez | Department of Carcinogenesis, Science Park-Research Division, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, USA |
| Targeting and processing of site-specific DNA interstrand crosslinks |
| Laura J. Niedernhofer | Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Senescence and aging as a consequence of unrepaired crosslinks |
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| Nucleotide excision repair - EU |
| Jean-Marc Egly | Department of Functional Genomics, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch Graffenstaden, France |
| NER factors are recruited to the promoters of activated genes and
help chromatin modifications |
| Hanspeter Naegeli | Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Zürich, Switzerland |
| Bipartite recognition of bulky base lesions |
| Simon H. Reed | Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK |
| Yeast global genome repair proteins promote UV induced chromatin remodeling required for efficient nucleotide excision repair |
| Caroline Kisker | Rudolf-Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany |
| XPanDing archaeal XPD structures to get a grip on human DNA repair |
| Leon H. Mullenders | Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| UV induced NER complex assembly and signalling in mammalian cells |
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| Inter - strand crosslink repair / Fanconi anemia - EU |
| Peter McHugh | Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK |
| Mechanistic insights into a human nuclease required for DNA cross-link repair |
| KJ Patel | Medical Research Council, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
| Title pending |
List of invited local speakers |
| Nucleotide excision repair |
| Barbara Tudek | Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
| Cockayne syndrome group B protein is engaged in processing of DNA adducts of lipid peroxidation product trans-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal |
| Erich Heidenreich | Department of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
| Evidence for antimutagenic as well as mutagenic properties of nucleotide excision repair in non-replicating yeast cells |
| Miroslav Piršel | Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| DNA repair, apoptosis and cell cycle control in ERCC3/XPB mutant cell lines |
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| Inter - strand crosslink repair / Fanconi anemia |
| Margaret Zdzienicka | Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Genetic basis of the cellular sensitivity to cross-linking agents and PARP inhibitors – implications for cancer treatment |
| Wojciech Niedzwiedz | Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Warsaw University, Poland; Department of Medical Oncology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
| FANCM: molecular matchmaker at the replication fork |
| Viktor Brabec | Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic |
| DNA interstrand crosslinking by new antitumor dinuclear PtII complexes |
| Miroslav Chovanec | Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Pso2-dependent and -independent arms of the ICL repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Marcin Szaumkessel | Department of Environmental Mutagenesis, Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland |
| DNA methylation profiling of Fanconi/BRCA pathway genes in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma |
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