LUMICKS proudly presents the very first UK-wide symposium focusing on single-molecule research!
DATE
May 14-15, 2024
LOCATION
ORGANIZERS
David Rueda
Mina Brett-Pitt
Explore program
Tuesday 14th May
12:30 – 13:00
Registration and coffee
13:00 – 13:05
Welcome & Introduction by David Rueda
13:05 – 13:45
Keynote – Nynke Dekker – Oxford University
Title: Adventures in DNA and chromatin replication using single-molecule biophysics
13:45 – 14:05
Tania Mendonca – Nottingham Univeristy
Title: Unravelling the mystery of the mitotic chromosome periphery
14:05 – 14:25
Paul Girvan – Imperial College London
Title: Nucleosome flipping drives kinetic proof reading and processivity of histone exchange by SWR1 complex
14:25 – 14:45
George Pobegalov – The Francis Crick Institute
Title: Single-molecule insight into DNA loop extrusion by yeast cohesion
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:45
Achillefs Kapanidis – Oxford University
Title: Library-based single-molecule imaging for global analysis of protein-DNA interactions
15:45 – 16:05
Graeme King – University College London
Title: Probing the structure and interactions of negatively supercoiled DNA using optical tweezers and fluorescence imaging
16:05 – 16:25
Andrea Candelli – LUMICKS
Title: Single-Molecule Biology Revealing the molecular mechanisms of health and disease
16:25 – 16:45
Closing remarks / Flash poster presentation by Mina Brett-Pitt
17:00 – 19:00
Poster, Drinks and Dinner Reception
Wednesday 15th May
09:00 – 09:40
Keynote – Simon Boulton – The Francis Crick Institute
Title: Visualising homologous recombination
09:40 – 10:00
Antony Oliver – University of Sussex
Title: Live-cell single-molecule tracking of the Smc5/6 complex
10:00 – 10:20
Lori Passmore – MRC LMB
Title: Insights into how the FANCD2-FANCI DNA repair clamp interacts with DNA
10:20 – 10:40
Neil Kad – University of Kent
Title: Mechanism, manipulation and inhibition of DNA repair in bacteria
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:30
Anne Straube – Warwick University
Title: Co-dependence of opposite polarity microtubule motors
11:30 – 11:50
Alice Pyne – Sheffield University
Title: Single molecule insights into how DNA supercoiling affects its interactions
11:50 – 12:10
Vladimir Volkov – QMUL
Title: Single-molecule approaches to studying force coupling between kinetochores and microtubule ends
12:10 – 12:30
Sebastian Guettler – ICR
Title: Wnt/beta-catenin signalling: molecular mechanisms and regulation by ADP-ribosylation
12:30 – 12:40
Closing remarks by Mina Brett-Pitt & David Rueda
