Wednesday, 20th June

15:30-17:00 Registration

17:00 Welcome Introduction

Session 1. Nuclear structure (Chair: Julio S. Rufas)

17:10 Andros Maldonado-Linares. “Study of TRIP13 function in the telomeres of meiotic chromosomes”.

17:30 Nadia Fernández. “The intricate ménage à trois among auxins, nuclear pore complexes and chromosomes during Arabidopsis meiosis”.

17:50 Sara González-Arranz. “Discovering interactions between H2A.Z histone variant and components of LINC complex during meiotic prophase”.

18:10-19:00 Coffee break

Keynote talk

19:00 Ricardo Benavente. “Molecular architecture of the synaptonemal complex”.

21:00 Dinner

Thursday, 21th June

8:30-9:30 Breakfast

Session 2. Regulation of recombination (Chair: Pedro San Segundo)

9:30 David Álvarez. “Spatio-temporal study of the activity of the DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) in the meiotic recombination hotspots”.

9:50 Cristina Martín-Castellanos. “Roles of CDK activity in meiotic recombination in fission yeast”.

10:10 Miguel Pachón. “Shedding light on the role of the aminopeptidase MPA1 in Arabidopsis thaliana meiotic recombination”.

10:30 Pablo Parra. “Synthetic autotetraploids: The battle for chiasmata between identical and homologous chromosomes”.

10:50-11:30 Coffee break

Session 3. Meiotic divisions (Chair: Joan Blanco)

11:30 Enrique Alfaro. “Dynamics of the meiotic spindle in male mouse meiosis”.

11:50 Nuria G. Hurtado. “Effect of Mps1 kinase inhibition on the assembly of the inner centromere domain in male mouse meiosis”.

12:10 Laura Vela. “Dynamics of the post-translational histone modification H3T45ph during male mouse meiosis”.

12:30 Poster session

14:00-15:00 Lunch

Session 4. Meiotic progression and checkpoint (Chair: Cristina Martín-Castellanos)

16:00 Esther Herruzo. “Control of Pch2 localization during the meiotic recombination checkpoint response”.

16:20 Laura Gómez-H. “The central element SIX6OS1 influences the recombination rate”.

16:40 Ana F. Martins. “A new role for CDC14B in mammalian male meiosis”.

17:00 Ana Martínez-Marchal. “The DNA damage response pathway controls the oocyte pool in mammals”.

17:20 Group photo

17:30-18:10 Coffee break

Session 5. Chromosome dynamics (Chair: Mónica Pradillo)

18:10 Teresa Albendea. “Organotypic culture of grasshopper seminiferous tubules. Analysis of univalents after heat shock and okadaic acid treatments”.

18:30 Pablo López. “Effects of a continuous heat shock treatment during first meiotic prophase in the grasshopper Locusta migratoria”

18:50 Marta Martín-Ruiz. “Differences in epigenetic modifications of sex chromosomes during prophase-I in the monotreme mammals Ornithorhynchus anatinus and Tachyglossus aculeatus”.

21:00 Dinner

Friday, 22 June

8:30-9:30 Breakfast

Session 6. Genome dynamics and chromosome evolution (Chair: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera)

10:00 Marta Ribagorda. “Behavior of a chromosome hexavalent during meiosis in hybrid mouse with Robertsonian translocations”.

10:20 Ana Gil. “Behavior of sex chromosomes during male meiosis in the mole vole (Ellobius tancrei) with an XX sex determination system”.

10:40 Mireia Solé. “Chromosomal territoriality in spermatogenesis: chance or purpose?”.

11:00-11:40 Coffee break

11:40 Covadonga Vara. “Exploring chromatin dynamics during mouse spermatogenesis”.

12:00 María Fernanda Trovero. “Revealing the stage-specific expression pattern of long non-coding RNAs in spermatogenesis”.

12:20 Yan Huang. “Identification of novel protein-coding genes expressed during spermatogenesis and analysis of their functions in meiotic prophase"

12:40 Concluding remarks

14:00-15:00 Lunch

15:30 Departure