Symposium
Systems Biology of Gene Transcription
Organized by Netherlands Nutrigenomics Consortium and Marie Curie RTN Nucsys
Wageningen, November 27-28

Lecturehall 54, Biotechnion (Bldg 307), Bomenweg 2, Wageningen

Friday, November 27

 

14:10-15:00

Frank Holstege, Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL

“Expression-profile phenotypes for discovering regulatory circuitry”

Saturday, November 28  
09:00-09:40

Dolf Weijers, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, NL

“Specificity in hormone-induced developmental pathways during plant embryogenesis”

09:40-10.20

Onno Meijer, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, NL

“Stress adaptation in the brain:  Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 as a determinant of glucocorticoid effects”

10:20-10:40

Break

10:40-11:20

Henk Stunnenberg, Dept. of Molecular Biology, NCMLS, Radboud University of Nijmegen, NL

“A systems biology approach to uncover global transcription factor networks”

11:20-12:00

Marc Timmers, Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL

“Chromatin dynamics of transcription by RNA polymerase II”

12:00-13:00 

Lunch

13:00-13:40

Peter van der Spek, Department of Bioinformatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL

“From Data to Knowledge: A Bioinformatics perspective to gain insight in underlying Molecular Mechanisms”

13:40-14:20 

Eric Kalkhoven, Department of Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL

“Nuclear receptor-coregulator interaction profiling identifies TRIP3 as a novel PPARγ Cofactor”

14:20-14:50

Break

14:50-15:30

Michael Müller, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, NL

“Systems biology of PPARα-dependent gene regulation”

    

     The symposium is free. If you are interested to participate please send an email to sander.kersten@wur.nl.