Sophie Polo is co-organizing the third edition of the EMBO Workshop “Chromatin dynamics and nuclear organization in genome maintenance”.

© https://meetings.embo.org/event/24-chromatin-dynamics
The workshop will take place in Leiden, Netherlands, from June 17 to 20, 2024.
Deadline for the registration: April 1, 2024.
More than 24 international speakers will cover the following topics:
(i) DNA repair in nuclear/chromatin domains,
(ii) histone modifications following damage: writers, reader, erasers,
(iii) nucleosome modification following DNA damage (remodellers, chaperones and histone variants),
(iv) replication stress and endogenous damage,
(v) transcription and RNA in DNA repair,
(vi) chromatin movement and physical constraints.
All the information here: https://meetings.embo.org/event/24-chromatin-dynamics
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