Program

Ataxia-Telangiectasia Workshop 2019 (ATW2019): Taking a Multidisciplinary Approach

Chair:  Tej K. Pandita, Houston Methodist

Co-chair:  Junjie Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Yosef Shiloh, Tel Aviv University, Israel – “Ataxia-telangiectasia: are we closer to understanding the ataxia?”

Andre Nussenzweig, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA

Tanya Paull, University of Texas at Austin, TX – “Consequences of ATM loss in human cells”

Martin Lavin, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Junjie Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Shan Zha, Columbia University, New York, NY – “The consequence of ATM inactivation and beyond”

Dipanjan Chowdhury, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Tetsuo Ashizawa, Houston Methodist

Muralidhar L. Hegde, Houston Methodist

Philip J. Horner, Houston Methodist

Peter McKinnon, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN – “ATM suppresses cerebellar ataxia by preventing toxic NHEJ”

Zhao-Qi Wang, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Germany – “Biological function of ATR”

John Cooke, Houston Methodist

Ari Barzilai, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Simon Powell, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

James Larner, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Kum Kum Khanna, Queensland Institute for Medical Research, Australia

Christopher Bakkenist, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Wei-Guo Zhu, Shenzhen University, China

Jacques Cote, Laval University Cancer Research Center, Quebec City, Canada – “The importance of lysine acetyltransferase complexes in the repair of DNA double strand breaks”

Jessica Tyler, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY – “Regulation of double-strand DNA repair by chromatin assembly and disassembly”

Tej K. Pandita, Houston Methodist

Grzegorz Ira, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Alexander James Roy Bishop, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX

Benu Brata Das, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur Kolkata, India – “New regulators of DNA Topoisomerase 1-induced DNA damage and repair”

Matthew D. Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

John Tainer, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Jeremy Stark, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

Sathees C. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India – “Sequence dependence of nonhomologous end joining and alternate pathways to DNA double-strand break repair”

Cheryl Walker, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Varsha Gandhi, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Zhenkun Lou, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Sagar Sengupta, National Institute of Immunology, India – “Multiple repair mechanisms employed by BLM helicase to maintain genome integrity”

Xingzhi (Xavier) Xu, Shenzhen University, China – “MRE11 UFMylation promotes ATM activation”

Sukesh R. Bhaumik, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL

Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY – “ATM deficiency and the impact on meiotic recombination”

K. Munniyapa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Ralph Scully, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Daniel Durocher, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tapas K. Hazra, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

James E. Haber, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA – “Autoregulation of budding yeast ATR and the dynamics of ATM/ATR-dependent chromatin modification”