Cistrome Meeting Program

We are soliciting talks for the Cistrome meeting. If you would like to give a talk, please email myles_brown@dfci.harvard.edu and xsliu@jimmy.harvard.edu with the following information: title, author(s), short abstract (~100 words), intended session.

Preconference Workshop: Jimmy Fund Auditorium, DFCI.

Thur 5/31/07 morning

• 8:45-9:00 Breakfast
• 9:00am-12:15pm, ChIP-chip protocol details and trouble-shooting experiences.
• Panelists: Mathieu Lupien, Mark Gerstein, Cliff Meyer, Phil Kapranov, Xinmin Zhang, Mary Warren
• Coffee break: 10:40-11:00am

Lunch and sponsor material distribution

• Thur 5/31/07 12:15pm-1:30pm, Smith 308/309, DFCI.

Conference: Thur 5/31/07 afternoon, Fri 6/1/07. Jimmy Fund Auditorium, DFCI.

Thur 5/31/07 afternoon, New development in ChIP-chip techniques and data analysis

• Chair: Jim DeCaprio
• 1:30-1:40 Opening
• 1:40-2:15 Ernest Fraenkel: Large differences between regulatory circuitry in human and mouse liver
• 2:15-2:50 Karol Bomsztyk: Fast ChIP
• 2:50-3:05 Katrin Stapleton
• 3:05-3:20 Coffee break
• 3:20-3:55 Mark Gerstein: Human genome annotation, focussing on intergenic regions
• 3:55-4:30 David Gifford: A computational tale of ES Cells becoming motor neurons
• 4:30-5:05 Wei Li: Quality control of ChIP-chip experiments

Fri 6/1/07 morning, ChIP-chip biological findings

• Chair: Kevin Struhl
• 8:45-9:00 Breakfast
• 9:00-9:35 Brad Bernstein: Chromatin state maps of pluripotent and lineage-committed cells
• 9:35-10:10 Andrew Kung: Insights into hypoxic gene expression
• 10:10-10:45 Rick Myers: ChIPSeq: Global measurement of occupancy of DNA binding proteins by sequence counting
• 10:45-11:00 Xinmin Zhang
• 11:00-11:05 Group Photo
• 11:05-11:15 Coffee break
• 11:15-11:50 Bing Ren: Genome annotation using a conserved epigenetic code
• 11:50-12:25 Jim DeCaprio: Evolutionarily conserved multi-subunit RBL2/p130 and E2F4 protein complex represses human cell cycle-dependent genes in quiescence

Fri 6/1/07 afternoon, Other tiling array applications

• Chair: Myles Brown
• 1:30-2:05 Anindya Dutta: Genome tiling arrays for analyzing the replication profile of human chromosomes
• 2:05-2:40 John Stam: Genome-wide mapping of regulatory DNA and higher-order chromatin structure
• 2:40-2:55 Iman Kishawi
• 2:55-3:10 Coffee break
• 3:10-3:45 Rick Young: Transcriptional regulatory circuitry of human embryonic stem cells
• 3:45-4:20 Jun Song: Mapping positioned nucleosomes in human promoters
• 4:20-4:55 Phil Kapranov: Genome-wide RNA Maps reveal new RNA classes, a possible function forpervasive transcription and interleaved genome organization
• 4:55-5:05 Conclusion