Michael Carty (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)

09:30 - 09:50

Investigation of the role of histone methylation in the cellular response to DNA damage

Selected oral communication - Jennifer Fitzgerald (National University of Ireland, Galway)

09:50 - 10:10

A novel mass spectrometric method for studying DNA damage

Selected oral communication- Tony Merrigan (Queens University Belfast, Ireland)

10:10 - 10:50

SUMO modification of PCNA is controlled by DNA

Joanne Parker (Cancer Research, UK)

11:10 - 11:30

Cyclophilin A; a novel regulator of genome stability in haematopoietic cells

Selected oral communication - John Bannon (University College Dublin, Ireland)

11:30 - 11:50

Modelling the Comet assay

Selected oral communication- Darragh McArt (University of Ulster, UK)

11:50 - 12:30

DNA replication repair: basic mechanisms and anti-cancer therapy

Thomas Helleday (University of Oxford, UK)

13:30 - 14:30

Therese Kinsella (University College Dublin, Ireland)

14:30 - 14:50

Genome wide effects of microRNA-21 (mir-21) knock-down on transcriptome of breast cancer cells

Selected oral communication - Duygu Selcuklu (University College Cork, Ireland)

14:50 - 15:10

Nuclear structures involved in the modulation of the DNA damage response of human cells

Selected oral communication - Ronan Broderick (NUI, Galway)

15:10 - 15:50

Regulation of Rad1/XPF by Slx4 family members

John Rouse (University of Dundee, UK)

16:10 - 16:30

Selected oral communication - to be announced

16:30 - 16:50

Selected oral communication - to be announced

16:50 - 17:30

Discovery a novel class of anticancer agents targeting DNA replication

Corrado Santocanale (National University of Ireland, Galway)