The third Scottish Chromatin Group meeting
supported by Millipore

2pm, Wednesday 24^th October 2007.
Main Seminar Room, Ground Floor, MRC Human Genetics Unit,
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Directions.

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Programme

2.00 - 2.40       Adele Marston   Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh     Website

                       Establishment and maintenance of centromeric cohesion in budding yeast

2.40 - 3.20       Richard Meehan   MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh

                       Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance DNA methyltransferase Dnmt1 in development and disease

3.20 - 4.00       Rob Illingworth    University of Edinburgh (PhD student with Adrian Bird)     Website

                       A novel CpG island set identifies tissue-specific methylation at developmental gene loci

4.00 - 4.30       Tea/coffee

4.30 - 5.20       Louis Mahadevan, University of Oxford     Website

                       A four-layer model for the deposition of histone modifications across mammalian genes

5.20 - 6.00       Alastair Fleming University of New Mexico (recently a postdoc with Mary Ann Osley)     Website

                       Interplay between H2B ubiquitylation and histone chaperone Spt16 during transcription elongation

6.00                 Refreshments

Later...             Bar

Researchers, students and clinicians from across Scotland are welcome.
Not open to the general public.
No registration required - Refreshments provided