| Day 1 | | | |
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| **Time** | **Speaker** | **Affiliation** | **Talk Title** |
| 12:30 | Registration and coffee | | |
| 13:00 | Welcome & Introduction by David Rueda | | |
| | **Session 1: Genome organisation – Chair: Luis Aragon (MRC LMS)** || | |
| 13:05 | Nynke Dekker (Keynote) | Oxford University | Adventures in DNA and chromatin replication using single-molecule biophysics |
| 13:45 | Dominika Gruszka | Oxford University | Single-molecule imaging of nucleosome dynamics during DNA replication |
| 14:05 | Paul Girvan | Imperial College London | Nucleosome flipping drives kinetic proof reading and processivity of histone exchange by SWR1 complex|
| 14:25 | George Pobegalov | The Francis Crick Institute | Single-molecule insight into DNA loop extrusion by yeast cohesion |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break | | |
| | **Session 2: DNA Processing Enzymes – Chair: Christian Speck (MRC LMS)** || | |
| 15:15 | Achillefs Kapanidis | Oxford University | Library-based single-molecule imaging for global analysis of protein-DNA interactions |
| 15:45 | Graeme King | University College London | Probing the structure and interactions of negatively supercoiled DNA using optical tweezers and fluorescence imaging |
| 16:05 | Andrea Candelli | LUMICKS | Single-Molecule Biology Revealing the molecular mechanisms of health and disease |
| 16:25 | Closing remarks / Flash poster presentation by Mina Brett-Pitt | | |
| 17:00 | Poster, Drinks and Dinner Reception | | |
| Day 2 | | | |
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| **Time** | **Speaker** | **Affiliation** | **Talk Title** |
| 09:00 | Simon Boulton (Keynote) | The Francis Crick Institute | Visualising homologous recombination |
| | **Session 3: DNA Repair – Chair: Hasan Yardimci (The Francis Crick Institute)** | | |
| 09:40 | Antony Oliver | University of Sussex | Live-cell single-molecule tracking of the Smc5/6 complex |
| 10:00 | Lori Passmore | MRC LMB | Insights into how the FANCD2-FANCI DNA repair clamp interacts with DNA |
| 10:20 | Neil Kad | University of Kent | Mechanism, manipulation and inhibition of DNA repair in bacteria |
| 10:40 | Coffee Break | | |
| | **Session 4: Biophysics Single Molecule Applications Across Scales – Chair: Sergi Garcia (KCL)** | | |
| 11:10 | Anne Straube | Warwick University | Co-dependence of opposite polarity microtubule motors |
| 11:30 | Alice Pyne | Sheffield University | Single molecule insights into how DNA supercoiling affects its interactions |
| 11:50 | Vladimir Volkov | QMUL | Single-molecule approaches to studying force coupling between kinetochores and microtubule ends |
| 12:10 | Sebastian Guettler | ICR | Wnt/beta-catenin signalling: molecular mechanisms and regulation by ADP-ribosylation |