Invited speakers list

Geneviève Almouzni (Institut Curie, Paris, France) 'The EMBO Keynote Lecture'
Histone variants and cell cycle

Renata Basto (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
The centrosome in cell division in vivo

Anna Castro (CRBM, Montpellier, France)
Do Arpp19 and ENSA play differential roles on the control of the cell cycle?

Jennifer DeLuca (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA)
Regulation of kinetochore-microtubule attachments throughout mitotic progression

Arshad Desai (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Co-ordinating cell division

Hironori Funabiki (The Rockefeller University, New York, USA)
Cell death in mitosis

Monica Gotta (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Plk1 regulation in cell division and development

Iain Hagan (CRUK Manchester Institute, United Kingdom)
Cell Cycle control from the spindle pole

Jean-Paul Javerzat (Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, Bordeaux, France)
Protein Phosphatase 4 and the Pef1 CDK oppose each other to control cohesin binding to fission yeast chromosomes

Susanne Lens (UMC Utrecht, Netherlands)
Chromosome passenger protein complex in genome segregation

Adele Marston (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Controlling progression through meiosis

Thomas Mayer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Protein phosphatases and their role in cell cycle progression

Sarah McClelland (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Creating Designer Karyotypes to Identify Vulnerabilities of Aneuploid Cancer

Raphaël Mercier (INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon, France)
Control of the metaphase to anaphase transition

Tobias Meyer (Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA)
The Restriction Point and cell cycle entry

David Morgan (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Biochemical mechanisms in the control of chromosome segregation

Andrea Musacchio (Max Planck Institute, Dortmund, Germany)
Cell cycle regulation of CENP-A deposition

Kim Nasmyth (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Chromosome cohesion and segregation

Jakob Nilsson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Regulation of cell division by protein phosphatases

Gislene Pereira (Ruprecht Karls Universitat, Heidelberg, Germany)
Spatial co-ordination of cell cycle progression

Simonetta Piatti (Centre de Recherche en Biochimie Macromoléculaire, Montpellier, France)
Controlling septin organisation for cytokinesis in budding yeast

Jonathan Pines (Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom)
Cyclin B1 and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint: a 12 year Odyssey

Lionel Pintard (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France)
Cullin ring ubitquitin ligases in cell division

Suzana Storchova (Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany)
Cell cycle deregulation in response to aneuploidy

Stephen Taylor (Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK)
Mitosis, genome stability and cancer chemotherapy

Marie-Emilie Terret (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie, Paris, France)
Aberrant too low cortical tension generates chromosome misalignment in mouse oocytes

Sylvie Tournier (Center for Integrative Biology, Toulouse, France)
Chromosome segregation in fission yeast: from centromeres to telomeres

Katja Wassmann (IBPS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
How oocytes try to get it right: Control mechanisms that govern the meiotic divisions

Hongtao Yu (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
Microtubule-dependent rewiring of spindle checkpoint signaling