Programme

Programme

Day 1
09:00 — 09:30
Registration
09:30 — 09:45
Course opening
09:45 — 10:45
Session 1: Impact of retroelements and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms plenary lecture
10:45 — 11:15
Tea break
11:15 — 12:30
Workshop 1: Selected short talks and discussion
12:30 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:00
Session 2: Retrotransposon regulation in germline development plenary lecture
15:00 — 15:30
Tea break
15:30 — 16:45
Workshop 2: Selected short talks and discussion
16:45 — 18:45
Poster session and networking reception
Day 2
09:30 — 10:30
Effects of retrotransposons in cancers plenary lecture
10:30 — 11:15
Tea break
11:15 — 12:00
Workshop 3: Selected short talks and discussion
12:00 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Session 4: Leveraging retrotransposons in understanding diseases and therapeutics plenary lecture
14:30 — 15:00
Tea break
15:00 — 16:15
Workshop 4: Selected short talks and discussion
16:15 — 17:00
Panel discussion: Collaborative approaches and future directions in retrotransposon research
17:00 — 19:00
Poster session and networking reception
Day 3
09:30 — 10:30
Session 5: Comparative genomic and epigenomic analyses of retrotransposons plenary lecture
10:30 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:15
Workshop 5: Selected short talks and discussion
12:15 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Session 6: Retrotransposons in embryonic development plenary lecture
14:30 — 15:00
Tea break
15:00 — 16:15
Workshop 6: Selected short talks and discussion
16:15 — 17:00
Closing remarks: Key takeaways and future perspectives

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