Frontiers in Regeneration Symposium "Chromatin regulation in neural development and maintenance"

Session I: BASIC MECHANISMS AND NEUROGENESIS (Chair: Mareike Albert)

13:00 - 13:45 Keynote Speaker: Helmut Schießel (PoL) "A basic mechanism for the maintenance of epigenetic information"

13:45 - 14:05 Nora Bölicke (CRTD - Albert Lab) "Polycomb repressive complex 2-mediated gene regulation in the human developing neocortex"

14:05 - 14:25 Samir Vaid (TUD - Schmidt Lab) "Maternal-fetal communication in regulating chromatin accessibility during embryonic neurogenesis"

14:25 - 14:45 Sara Zocher (DZNE - Toda Lab) "Live-long persistence of nuclear RNAs in the mouse brain"

Session II: NEURODEGENERATION AND REPAIR (Chair: Tomohisa Toda)

15:15 - 16:00 Keynote Speaker: André Fischer (UMG) "Epigenetic and epitranscriptomic processes in neurodegenerative diseases"

16:00 - 16:20 Markus Westphal (CRTD - Becker Lab) "Chromatin regulation of spinal progenitor cell plasticity after spinal cord injury in zebrafish"

16:20 - 16:40 Ramakrishnan Sivasubramanian (CRTD - Sterneckert Lab) "Regulation of LncRNA Xist by mutant FUS on the pathogenesis of ALS"

16:40 - 17:00 Andreas Dahl (CRTD) "Which genomics technologies at the DcGC can contribute to chromatin biology research in Dresden"