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UNSTABLE TRIPLETS, MICROSATELLITES,

Cambridge Symposia symposia at xensei.com
Fri Dec 6 11:07:22 EST 1996


UNSTABLE TRIPLETS, MICROSATELLITES, 
AND HUMAN DISEASE
Organizers:  Jack Griffith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 
Robert Wells, Texas A&M University, 
and David Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine
April 1-6, 1997; Santa Fe, New Mexico

Tuesday 4/1
2-7pm	Registration
8-9pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
	C. Thomas Caskey, Merck & Company
	“Triplet Diseases: Past, Present and Future”

Wednesday 4/2
7-8am	Breakfast
8-11:30am  WELCOME INTRODUCTION:  UNSTABLE MICROSATELLITES:
	   MECHANISMS AT THE DNA LEVEL I
	Jack Griffith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
	“Welcome Introduction”
	Miroslav Radman, Institute Jacques Monod-FRANCE
	“Interplay Between SOS and Mismatch Repair Systems in Genome 
	(in)Stability and Evolution”
	Geoffrey Wahl, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
	“p53 Dependent Cell Cycle Responses to DNA Mismatches 
	Involving p53”
	Richard Fishel, Thomas Jefferson University
	“The Recognition of Mispaired Nucleotides, Microsatellite 
	Sequences and DNA  Lesions by the Human Mismatch Repair 
	System”
	Stephen Thibodeau, Mayo Clinic
	“Microsatellite Instability in Colon Cancer”
	Michael Siciliano, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center
	“Factors Affecting Microsatellite Instability”

1:30-3:30pm	WORKSHOP: GENOME INSTABILITY AND REPAIR
	        MICROSATELLITE DNA STRUCTURE

7:30-10:30pm	UNSTABLE MICROSATELLITES:  MECHANISMS AT THE DNA 
	        LEVEL II
	Robert Wells, Texas A&M University
	“DNA Structure, Triplet Repeats, and Human Hereditary Diseases”
	Thomas Kunkel, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
	“Studies of Replication Fidelity and Mismatch Repair of Repetitive 
	DNA Sequences”
	Sam Wilson, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
	“Where Errors Could Occur at the Level of Replication”
	Tom Petes, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
	“Microsatellite Instability in Yeast”

Thursday 4/3
7-8am	Breakfast
8-11:30am   MICROSATELLITE CHROMATIN, TELOMERES, FRAGILE SITES,
	    AND THE FRAGILE X SYNDROME I
	Jack Griffith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
	“Microsatellite Chromatin:  Properties and Pathology”
	Tom Glover, University of Michigan
	“Molecular Delineation of Common Fragile Sites” 
	Titia de Lange, The Rockefeller University
	“Mammalian Telomeric Proteins”
	Virginia Zakian, Princeton University
	“Maintaining Saccharomyces Telomeres”
	Robert Richards, Women’s and Children’s Hospital-AUSTRALIA
	“Molecular Genetics of Fragile Sites”

1:30-3:30pm	WORKSHOP: CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE AND FRAGILE X
	        MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY/FRIEDREICH’S ATAXIA

7:30-10:30pm	MICROSATELLITE CHROMATIN, TELOMERES, FRAGILE SITES,
	        AND THE FRAGILE X SYNDROME II
	David Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine
	“The Fragile X Diseases”
	B. A. Oostra, Erasmus University-NETHERLANDS
	“Fragile X Syndrome and the Gene Involved”
	Stephen Warren, Emory University
	“Molecular Basis of Fragile X Syndrome”
	Walter Doerfler, University of Köln-GERMANY
	“On the Molecular Biology of the Fragile X Syndrome”

Friday 4/4
7-8am	Breakfast
8-11:30am   MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY AND FRIEDREICH’S ATAXIA: LOSS OF
	    FUNCTION MICROSATELLITE DISEASES AND CANCER I
	Robert Korneluk, Childrenís Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research 
	Inst-CANADA
	“Myotonic Dystrophy (DM):  Effect of the CTG Repeat Mutation on 
	Expression of the DM Kinase Gene”
	David Housman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	“Myotonic Dystrophy Kinase Gene Expression”
	B. Wieringa, University of Nijmegen-NETHERLANDS
	“The DM Locus in Mouse and Man: Genotype - Phenotype Correlations”
	Keith Johnson, University of Glasgow-UK
	“Is Myotonic Dystrophy a Polygenic Disorder?”
	Eric Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
	“Myotonic Dystrophy: Evidence for a Dominant-Negative RNA Mutation”

1:30-4:30pm	MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY AND FRIEDREICH’S ATAXIA: LOSS OF
	        FUNCTION MICROSATELLITE DISEASES AND CANCER II
	Massimo Pandolfo, CRLS - Pavillon de Seve-CANADA
	“Friedreich’s Ataxia”
	Carlo Croce, Thomas Jefferson University
	“Genetics of Human Cancer”
	Guillermina Lozano, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center
	“Cancer Predisposition in Li Fraumeni Syndrome”
	Charles Cantor, Boston University
	“New Approaches to Genome Analysis” 

8-10pm	BANQUET

Saturday 4/5
7-8am	Breakfast
8-11:30am   CAG/POLYGLUTAMINE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES:
	    GAIN OF FUNCTION? I
	Jean-Louis Mandel†, INSERM-University Louis Pasteur-FRANCE
	“Huntington’s Disease and Spinocerebellar Ataxia”
	Kenneth Fischbeck, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
	“Kennedy’s Disease”
	Marcy MacDonald, Massachusetts General Hospital
	“Huntington’s Disease”
	Harry Orr, University of Minnesota
	“Repeat Instability and Pathogenesis of SCA1 in Transgenic Mice”
	Gillian Bates†, UMDS-Guy’s Hospital-UK
	“Huntington’s Disease Mouse Model”

1:30-3:30pm	WORKSHOP: POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASES: PATHOLOGY
	        POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASES: PROTEIN STRUCTURE

8-10:30pm    CAG/POLYGLUTAMINE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES:
	     GAIN OF FUNCTION? II
	Akira Kakizuka, Kyoto University-JAPAN
	“Molecular and Genetic Bases of Machado-Joseph Disease”
	Christopher Ross, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
	“Huntington’s Disease and DRPLA”
	Jeffrey Vance, Duke University Medical Center 
	“Haw River Syndrome”

Sunday 4/6
	DEPARTURE


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