Program Dutch Chromatin Meeting 2026

Program

Dutch Chromatin Meeting 2026 Thursday November 26 NKI Amsterdam

9:00 -
9:30

Registration

9:30 -
9:35

Opening

9:35 -
9:55

Samuel Jesus Luchsinger Morcelle (Erasmus MC, LUMC Leiden)

The native SPEN interactome identifies SAFB1 as a factor involved in X chromosome heterochromatization

9:55 -
10:15

Aster Witvliet (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)

The H3K36me3-binding protein NPAC mediates chromatin loops between active genes

10:15 -
10:35

 Lucas Kaaij  (UMC Utrecht)

Functional characterization of KRAB-ZFPs that regulate chromatin accessibility and CTCF binding at transposable element-derived regulatory sequences

10:35 -
11:10

Coffee & Tea

11:10 -
11:30

Bastiaan de Potter (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht)

De novo design of soluble histone binders

11:30 -
12:20

Keynote: Edda Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)

How cells decode quantitative signals to choose the inactive X chromosome

12:20 -
12:30

Company Pitch: Active Motif

12:30 -
13:00

Lunch

13:00 -
14:00

Poster Session

14:00 -
14:20

Anaïs Wiech (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)

Varicella-Zoster virus replication requires BET bromodomain activity but not the BRD4/SEC elongation pathway

14:20 -
14:40

Cassio Fleming (UMC Utrecht)

Condensate-enhanced proximity labeling maps the molecular and genomic environment of β-Catenin assemblies

14:40 -
15:00

Ningqing Liu (Erasmus MC Rotterdam)

BAF complexes cooperate with lineage-restricted transcription factors to establish cell-state-specific regulatory programs

15:00 -
15:30

Coffee & Tea

15:30 -
15:50

Démi van Gent (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)

Differential release of looping and cohesive cohesin?

15:50 -
16:10

Arianna Sandron (UMC Utrecht)

A histone acetylation hub orchestrates DNA repair in heterochromatin

16:10 -
17:00

Invited: Liesbeth Veenhoff (ERIBA and UMCG, Groningen)

Pore Patrol: Surveilling intrinsically disordered nucleoporins and expanded DNA repeats

17:00 -
17:20

Closing Remarks & Poster Prize

17:20 -
18:00

Drinks & Bites