Telomeres and the DNA damage response EMBO Conference Series The programme for this event was reviewed and approved by the EMBO Course Committee. 2 – 6 October 2012 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue | France INVITED SPEAKERS Steven Artandi Stanford University, US Alison Bertuch Texas Children’s Cancer Center, USA Anja Bielinsk Minnesota Cancer Center, US Elizabeth Blackburn UC San Francisco, US Simon Boulton CRUK LRI, UK Julie Cooper CRUK LRI, UK Titia de Lange Rockefeller University, US Dan Durocher Samuel Lunefeld Cancer Center, CA Miguel Ferreira Institute Gulbebkian, PT Marco Foiani European Institue of Oncology, IT Susan Gasser FMI, CH Eric Gilson University Nice, FR Eric Hendrickson Minnesota Cancer Center, US Steve Jackson Gurdon Institute, UK Brad Johnson University Pennsylvania, US Joachim Lingner EPFL, CH Clodagh O’Shea Salk Institute, US John Petrini MSKCC, US Karel Riha Gregor Mendel Institute, AT Lenhard Rudolph Leibnitz Institute for Aging Research, Jena, DE Ted Weinert University of Arizona, US Raymond Wellinger University Sherbrooke, CA Ginger Zakian Princeton University, US REGISTRATION Deadline before 15 August 2012 First 40 registrants before 22 June: Students and postdoctoral fellows ................ 750 EUR Lab Heads, Editors and Industry ............................... 850 EUR After 22 June: Students and postdoctoral fellows ................ 850 EUR Lab Heads, Editors and Industry ............................... 980 EUR ORGANIZERS Peter Baumann Vincent Geli Lea Harrington Jan Karlseder CONTACTS Lea Harrington [email protected] Peter Baumann [email protected] TOPICS ■ Stem Cells and Cancer ■ Telomere Replication and Length Regulation ■ Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction ■ Processing of DNA Breaks and Telomeres ■ Chromatin Structure and the DNA Damage Response ■ Telomeric Proteins and their Modifications http://events.embo.org/12-telomere