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Session I. Chairperson: Tapas K KunduNovember 23, 201209.00-09.30 Jerry Workman Function of Set2-mediated H3K36 methylation inregulating histone acetylation and exchange overtranscribed regions09.30-10.00 Purnima Bhargava Yeast Asf1 associates with highly transcribed features andassists condensin binding10.00-10.30 Shantanu Chowdhury Transcription factor occupancy appears to be active onlywhen coupled with nucleosome repositioning10.30-11.00 Beena Pillai Regulation of gene expression by the histone variantH2A.Z in the mammalian liver and brain11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea (Shanti Niketan)Session II. Chairperson: Vani Brahmachari11.30-12.00 S C Lakhotia The hnRNP A1 homolog Hrp36/Hrb87F is essential fortelomere elongation and telomere capping in Drosophilamelanogaster12.00-12.30 G.V. Shivashankar Nuclear mechanics, chromosome organization andgenome regulation12.30-13.00 Basuthkar J Rao Chromosome territories reposition during DNA damagerepairresponse13.00-15.00 Lunch - Poster session – Coffee/Tea (poster area)Session III. Chairperson: Veena K Parnaik15.00-15.30 Kaustav Sanyal Epigenetics of centromere specification15.30-16.00 Stefan Dimitrov Mitotic functions of CENP-A nucleosomes16.00-16.15 Christian Jaulin Aurora A-mediated phosphorylation of CENP-A is requiredfor centromere cohesion16.15-16.45 Michael Sheetz Nuclear actin and epigenetics16.45-17.15 Coffee/Tea (Shanti Niketan)Session IV. Chairperson: Sanjeev Galande17.15-17.30 M.M. Pradeep Role of Psip1 in linking h3k36me3 to splicing, and regulationof Hox genes17.30-18.00 Reshma Taneja Role of lysine methyltransferase G9a in skeletal myogeneisis18.00-18.30 Rakesh K. Mishra Chromatin domain boundaries and regulation of homeoticgene complexes18.30-19.00 Coffee/Tea - poster session (poster area)19.00-21.00 Dinner (CCMB main building terrace)