Minisymposium Schedule and Suggested References

Conjoint 538, Winter 2004

Minisymposium, Session I

RAD51

Henry-Mowatt et al., 2003

Alexiadis and Kadonaga, 2002

Pellegrini et al., 2002

RAD52/54

Essers et al., 2002

Solinger et al., 2002

BRCA1

Vandenberg et al., 2003

Dong et al., 2003

Rothfuss and Grompe, 2004

Taniguchi et al., 2003

BRCA2

Dong et al., 2003

Pellegrini et al., 2002

Hirsch et al., 2003

Howlett et al., 2002

Rothfuss and Grompe, 2004

Taniguchi et al., 2003

FANC

Meetei et al., 2003b

Hirsch et al., 2003

Levitus et al., 2003

Rothfuss and Grompe, 2004

Taniguchi et al., 2003

FANC D

Nakanishi et al., 2002

Houghtaling et al., 2003

Hirsch et al., 2003

Liu et al., 2003

Vandenberg et al., 2003

MSH2/MSH6/EXO1

Wei et al., 2003

XRCC1

Whitehouse et al., 2001

Vidal et al., 2001

Minisymposium, Session II

MUS81/EME1

Abraham et al., 2003

Boddy et al., 2001

Chen et al., 2001

Ogrunc and Sancar, 2003

WRN

Saintigny et al., 2002

Baynton et al., 2003

BLM

Wu and Hickson, 2003

Fabre et al., 2002

Meetei et al., 2003b

Goss et al., 2002

Ku/DNA-PK/Artemis

Karanjawala et al., 2002

Ma et al., 2002

DNA LIGASE 4

Frank et al., 2000

O'Driscoll et al., 2001

RAG1/2

Messier et al., 2003

Jones and Gellert, 2003

H2AX

Bassing et al., 2003

Celeste et al., 2002

MRE11/RAD50/NBS1

Bender et al., 2002

Hopfner et al., 2002

Carson et al., 2003; Stracker et al., 2002

Bender et al., 2002

Uziel et al., 2003

Nakanishi et al., 2002

Minisymposium, Session III

AID

Petersen-Mahrt et al., 2002

Chaudhuri et al., 2003

APOBECS

Mangeat et al., 2003

UNG

Imai et al., 2003

Rada et al., 2002

Di Noia and Neuberger, 2002

Error-prone Polymerases

Pol eta

Bresson and Fuchs, 2002

Zheng et al., 2003

Pol iota

Kannouche et al., 2002

Faili et al., 2002

RAD51 Paralogues

Liu et al., 2002

Masson et al., 2001

Sale et al., 2001

RAD51C/XRCC3

Liu et al., 2004

Minisymposium, Session IV

TFIIH

Iben et al., 2002

Bradsher et al., 2002

Riedl et al., 2003

Tremeau-Bravard et al., 2003

Dubaele et al., 2003

CSB

Osterod et al., 2002

Bradsher et al., 2002

XPD

de Boer et al., 2002

Dubaele et al., 2003

Vermeulen et al., 2001

ERCC1/XPF

Zhu et al., 2003

Niedernhofer et al., 2001

XPG

Reardon and Sancar, 2002

Lee et al., 2002

Emmert et al., 2002

Lalle et al., 2002

Ubiquitin, Sumo

Mallery et al., 2002

Meetei et al., 2003a

Jones and Gellert, 2003

Bachant et al., 2002

ATM

Bakkenist and Kastan, 2003

Spring et al., 2002

Carson et al., 2003

Uziel et al., 2003

ATR

Costanzo et al., 2003

Casper et al., 2002

P53

Zhu et al., 2002

Sorlie et al., 2003

Leslie et al., 2003; Overholtzer et al., 2003

Liu et al., 2003

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