Monday, November 30
9:15 -10:15 a.m.
Registration and refreshments
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Greetings
Prof. Jiwchar Ganor, Dean
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Jerry Eichler, Chairman
Department of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Ute Deichmann, Director
Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
10:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
I. Genomic causality in development
"Long-Range Regulation during Development and Evolution: Back to Preformation?’'
Denis Duboule, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Quantitative Biology of Developmental Abnormalities"
Stas Shvartsman, Princeton University, U.S.A.
"Functional Characterization of Gene Regulatory Elements of Epilepsy-Associated Genes”
Ramon Birnbaum, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1:00 -2:00 p.m.
Lunch break
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
II. Cells and genomes - Synthesis and function (I)
“Building a Minimal Bacterial Cell by Global Design and Synthesis”
John Glass, Craig Venter Institute, U.S.A.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
3:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Cells and genomes - Synthesis and function (II)
“Intrinsic and Collective Cellular Function: Lessons from Single Cell Transcriptional Analysis and Epigenomics”
Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute, Israel
“3D Genome Regulation in Cell Differentiation and Response to Hormones”
Ofir Hakim, Bar Ilan University, Israel
“The Complexity of Mitochondrial DNA Regulation: Modulating the Once and Future Endosymbiont”
Dan Mishmar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
For speakers and invited guests - Reception, musical interlude and dinner
Tuesday, December 1
9:15 – 11:00 a.m.
III. Memorial session for Eric Davidson
Ellen Rothenberg
Douglas Erwin
Michel Morange
Ute Deichmann
Smadar Ben-Tabou de Leon
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
IV. The regulatory genome and evolution (I)
"The Construction of Evolutionary Opportunity through Gene Regulation"
Douglas Erwin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.
“Paleo-epigenetics: Reconstructing Gene Regulation in Archaic Humans”
Liran Carmel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch break
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
The regulatory genome and evolution (II)
"A Trade-off Between Constraints on Embryo Geometry and Regulatory Genome Evolution"
Patrick Lemaire, Centre de Recherche de Biochimie Macromoléculaire, France
“Genomic Spaces of the Possible and the Origins of Adaptations”
Andreas Wagner, University of Zurich, Switzerland
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee break
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
V. Ethics and genomics
"Ethical and Political Findings of Whole-Genome Sequencing"
Anna Zielinska, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
"Human Germ Line Editing: A Historical Perspective”
Michel Morange, École Normale Supérieure, France
c c c c
7:15 p.m.
For speakers and invited guests - Dinner and evening lecture
Wednesday, December 2
9:15 –11:15 a.m.
VI. Genome annotation
“The Role of Genome Annotation”
Howard Cedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Marking Developmental History on the Genome in Immune Cells”
Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
11:15 – 11.45 a.m.
Coffee break
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
“Immunogenetics and Immune History to Previous Infections"
Tomer Hertz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
VII. Roundtable discussion
Chair - Michel Morange
c c c c
1.00 p.m.
For speakers and invited guests - Lunch
