18:00-20:00

Welcome cocktail at the "Inu Sardinian Wine Bar" situated in Via Sassari, 50

20:30

Free time for dinner (not included in the package)

 The shuttle bus departs from Piazza Matteotti at 8:30 to the conference venue "Convento San Giuseppe" 

9:00-10:00

Registration, welcome and opening of the Conference

Session 1

Chair: Sergio Pimpinelli

10:00-10:30

Gunter Reuter
Embryonic onset of heterochromatin and late replication at the Drosophila MBT

10:40-11:10

Pat O'Farrel
The Su(var) complement of chromatin genes in Drosophila

11:20-11:40

Coffee break

11:40-12:10

Doris Bachtrog
Establishment of heterochromatin during early development in Drosophila

12:20-12:50

Yikang S. Rong
Maternal Haploid, a metalloprotease enriched at the largest satellite repeat and essential for genome integrity in Drosophila embryos

13:00-14:45

Lunch

Session 2

Chair: Kent Golic

14:45-15:15

Kami Ahmad
Polycomb and the control of development by chromatin

15:25-15:55

Alexander Mazo
A model for epigenetic marking in eu- and heterochromatin during DNA replication and mitosis

16:05-16:35

Svetlana Petruk
A window of ‘open’ nascent chromatin is essential for stem cell differentiation

18:00

City tour by bus and Appetizer "Lungomare Poetto"

Session 3

Chair: Kami Ahamad

9:30-10:00

Dmitry Fyodorov
Biochemistry and genetics of sperm chromatin remodeling (SCR) in Drosophila

10:10-10:40

Maurizio Gatti
pendolino, a Drosophila gene required for protection of “heterochromatic” telomeres

10:50-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-11:40

Kent Golic
Chromosome breakage, ring chromosomes and fragile sites in Drosophila

11:50-12:20

Alexey Pindyurin
Efficient delivery of transgenes to cultured Drosophila cells

12:30-14:30

Lunch

Session 4

Chair: Maurizio Gatti

14:30-15:00

Tatyana Zykova
Molecular and genetic organization of chromatin in the composition of Drosophila interphase chromosomes

15:10-15:40

Tatyana Kolesnikova
Similarity in replication timing between polytene and diploid cells is associated with the organization of the drosophila genome

15:50-16:20

Varvara Khoroshko
Gene location in intercalary chromatin bands in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster

16:30-16:50

Coffee break

16:50-17:20

Darya Sidorenko
A combined method for mapping polytene chromosome binding pattern in the fourth microchromosome of Drosophila melanogaster

17:30-18:00

Dmitry Fyodorov
Linker histone H1 regulates endoreplication of intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila

18:10

Free time for dinner (not included in the package)

9:30

Departure by bus from Piazza Matteotti to visit the Drosophila’s Home "Argiolas Winery"

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

Conferences on sardinian people

11:00-11:45

Paolo Francalacci
The human peopling of Sardinia from a Y chromosome perspective

11:50-12:35

Giovanni Mario Pes
Sardinia's exceptional longevity. A journey through genes, environment and diet

13:00-14:15

Lunch

14:30

Departure for Barumini and visit of Nuraghe (we suggest wearing comfortable clothes and shoes)

17:00

Excursion to the “Giara Park”

20:30

Dinner in a typical Sardinian restaurant

Session 5

Chair: Gunter Reuter

10:00-10:30

Igor Sharakhov
Evolution of heterochromatin and speciation in malaria mosquitoes

10:40-11:10

Maria Sharakhova
Mapping and assembling repeat-rich mosquito genome

11:20-11:40

Coffee break

11:40-12:10

Mia Levine
Intra-genomic conflict drives Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) gene family diversification

12:20-12:50

Cécile Courret
Heterochromatin and genetic conflict: X-chromosome meiotic drive in Drosophila simulans

13:00-15:00

Lunch

Session 6

Chair: Maria Pia Bozzetti

15:00-15:30

Amanda Larracuente
Satellite DNA evolution in Drosophila

15:40-16:10

Bernardo Lemos
Evolutionary and functional genomics of the ribosomal DNA array

16:20-16:50

Victoria Meller
The long and the short of it: RNA and chromosome recognition

17:00-17:20

Coffee break

17:20-17:50

Maria Kim
The X-linked 1.688 satellite in Drosophila promotes specific targeting by Painting of fourth

18:00-18:30

Wolfgang Miller
Unorthodox transmission modes of endosymbionts in Drosophila hybrids

18:40

Free time for dinner (not included in the package)

Session 7

Chair: Keith Maggert

9:30-10:00

Cristina Vieira
Impact of hybridization in genome stability

10:10-10:40

Marie Fablet
Dynamic interactions between the genome and an endogenous retrovirus: lessons from tirant in Drosophila simulans

10:50-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-11:55

Matthias Schaefer
Mutations in (Cytosine-5) tRNA methyltransferases facilitate deregulation of mobile element control resulting in genomic instability

12:05-12:35

Alexei Aravin
Su(var)2-10, a novel component of the piRNA-induced transcriptional silencing complex, controls co-transcriptional repression of piRNA target

12:45-15:00

Lunch

Session 8

Chair: Cristina Vieira

15:00-15:30

Katalin Fejes Toth
Primary piRNA processing is triggered by sequestration of RNA to nuage

15:40-16:20

Maria Pia Bozzetti
The regulation of the crystal-Stellate interaction as a marker of different piRNA pathways in the gonads

16:30-17:00

Valeria Specchia
Heterochromatin and piRNAs in fragile X mental retardation: insights from Drosophila

17:10-17:40

Nitin Phadnis
The molecular basis of speciation in Drosophila

19:30

Departure by bus to Maracalagonis and Farewell Banquet in a typical Sardinian Villa