Invited Speakers:

Stephen P. Bell, Department of Biology, MIT

"Triggering replication initiation: a cascade of kinases at the origin"

Junjie Chen, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas

"Chromatin structure and DNA damage response"

Michael J. Daly, Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

"Small molecule proteome-shields in deinococcus radiodurans"

Anindya Dutta, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia 

"Mechanisms by which the human cell restricts DNA replication to once per cell-cycle"  

Toren Finkel, Cardiology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH

"Mitochondrial function and the regulation of stem and progenitor cells"

Marcia Haigis, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

"Roles of sirtuins in mitochondrial metabolism" 

Wade Harper, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

"The SLX4 complex, a tool kit for DNA repair" 

Ursula Jakob, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

"Oxidative stress and redox regulation"

Penny Jeggo, Genome Centre, Sussex University, UK

"ATM, higher order chromatin structure and DNA double strand break repair: how they link"

Matthew Meselson, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

"How does ionizing radiation kill cells: early clues from bystander effects" 

Laura Niedernhofer, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Therapeutic strategies for delaying aging"

 Lee Zou, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

"Sensing and signaling DNA damage through the ATM and ATR checkpoints"