Monday 16th June 2025
First Session: From Soma to Germline: oocyte dormancy establishment
Chair: Elvan Böke
Jasmin Rettkowski (ETH Zurich): Stem Cells dormancy
Katsuhiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan): Germ Stem Cells culture to produce oocytes
First Session: From Soma to Germline: oocyte dormancy establishment
Chair: Elvan Böke
Jean-René Huynh (CIRB, France): Evolutionary Adaptations to Cellular Constraints in Meiotic Chromosome Pairing
Second Session: Establishing Maternal Reserves
Chair: Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Yaniv Elkouby (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israël): Divisions of the germline cyst in Zebrafish
Petr Svoboda (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Praha): Small RNAs in oocytes
Second Session: Establishing Maternal Reserves
Chair: Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Geraldine Seydoux (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA): Cytoplasm RNA dynamics in c. elegans
Arnaud Hubstenberger (IBV, France): Phase Separation of RNPs in c. elegans
Florence Marlow (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA): Oocyte polarity
Second Session: Establishing Maternal Reserves
Chair: Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Short Talks selected on abstracts
Avishag Mytlis, Hebrew university of Jerusalem (on Zoom): The Zygotene Cilium Regulates Meiosis, Germ Cell Development, and Fertility in Zebrafish, Mice, and Humans
Karin Levy, Hebrew university of Jerusalem: Coordination of meiosis by nuclear-dependent Plk1 centrosome regulation co-organizes oocyte cellular compartments
Stephanie Rosswag de Souza, CRG Barcelona: Unraveling unique features of transcription and translation in oocytes
Anahi Molla-Herman, CIRB Collège de France: H2Av controls genome integrity and fertility in Drosophila female germline
Noemi Zollo, CIRB Collège de France: A novel RNP compartment boosts translation in growing mouse oocytes to avoid cytoplasm dilution
Antoine Guichet, IJM Paris: A dual system involving the nuclear envelope and membrane cortex ensures that the nucleus is anchored asymmetrically in the Drosophila oocyte
Yamiini Vadapalli, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences: Actin and microtubules cooperate in chromosome capture during oocyte meiosis
Andrea Pauli (IMP, Austria): Life’s first kiss – what do we miss?
Tuesday 17th June 2025
Third Session: Preserving maternal stores via asymmetric divisions
Chair: Jean-René Huynh
Eva Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Oocyte aneuploïdy
Karen Schindler (University of Rutgers, USA): Oocyte acentriolar Spindle Assembly
Third Session: Preserving maternal stores via asymmetric divisions
Chair: Jean-René Huynh
Michaël Lampson (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Meiotic drive during oocyte divisions
Third Session: Preserving maternal stores via asymmetric divisions
Chair: Jean-René Huynh
Carl-Philip Heisenberg (ISTA, Austria): Establishing oocyte polarity
Marie-Emilie Terret (CIRB, France): Biophysics of oocyte divisions
Third Session: Preserving maternal stores via asymmetric divisions
Chair: Jean-René Huynh
Short Talks selected on abstracts
Katja Wassmann, IJM Paris: Coordinating Chromosome Segregation with Cell Cycle Progression in Oocyte Meiosis
Thierry Lorca, CRBM Montpellier: Role of Gwl in regulating both Erp1 stabilization and Cdk1-APC/C activities, ensuring proper meiotic progression.
Tommaso Cavazza, University of Zurich: Parental genome unification is error prone in mammalian embryos
Christopher Thomas, IBDM Marseille: Revealing the Secrets of Ovulation
Marzia Munafo, EMBL Rome: Precision genetic perturbations reveal the functional role of chromatin marks in oogenesis and inheritance
Rose Bulteau, CIRB Collège de France: Atomic Force Microscopy reveals differences in mechanical properties linked to cortical structure in mouse and human oocytes
Volodymyr Porokh, Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine: Zygotic spindle orientation – biparental contribution to genetic stability
Melina Schuh (Max Planck, Germany): Mammalian oocyte divisions