MODERATORS: Neil Hunter, Chloé Girard, Luca Comai, Kanae Masuda

Caroline Blanc, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (PI: Marie Delattre) When a segregation bias of chromatids maintains heterozygosity in parthenogenetic nematode

Keynote speaker: Christine Mézard, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, France New screen: a series of new meiotic players in plant meiosis

Celja Uebel, Stanford University, USA (PI: Anne Villeneuve) Ensuring crossover maturation with COSA-2 "Crossover Glue"

Vernon Monteiro, University of Toronto, Canada (PI: Thomas Hurd) “Game(tes) On!” – RNA-binding protein, Ataxin-2, promotes premeiotic DNA replication and genome stability 

Keynote speaker: John Weir, MPRGL Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Germany Roles of Mer3 helicase in crossover formation

Aleksandra Byrska, University of Warwick, UK (PI: Andrew D. McAinsh) Cas9-based chromosome labelling reveals large-scale age-dependent centromere reorganisation in human eggs

MODERATORS: Satoshi Namekawa, Richard Schultz, Jasmine Esparza

Karel Janko, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Hybridization-Induced Deviations in Meiosis: Unraveling the Pathways to Asexuality

Cristina Marin-Garcia, Unversitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (PI: Aurora Ruiz- Herrera) Meiotic functional constraints in wild mice carrying Robertsonian translocations

André Marques, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany Crossover patterning dynamics under chromosome breaks and fusions in holocentric Rhynchospora species

Wenzhe Li, UC Davis, USA (PI: Francis McNally) Spatial and Temporal Control of Centrioles and Chromosomes in C.elegans Meiotic Embryos

Keynote speaker: Takashi Akera, NIH/NHLBI, USA Mis-regulation of meiotic cohesin protection is a reproductive isolating barrier in mice

Talia Hatkevich, Duke University, USA (PI: Blanche Capel) Gonadal sex and temperature independently influence germ cell differentiation and meiotic progression in Trachemys scripta

Meret Arter, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA (PI: Scott Keeney) Characterizing the rapid evolution of meiotic recombination proteins

MODERATORS: Sean Burgess, Bernard de Massy, Ivan Olaya

Noopur Joshi, Cleveland State University, USA (PI: Valentin Boerner) The Dot1-mediated H3K79 methylation mark limits recombination and meiotic cell divisions during heat stress to preserve gamete quality

Kip Lacy, Rockefeller University, USA (PI: Daniel Kronauer) Unselfish meiotic drive maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant

Keynote speaker: Piotr Ziółkowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland What is MSH2 for in meiotic recombination? A look from the plant perspective

Yuka Kitamura, UC Davis, USA (PI: Satoshi Namekawa) CTCF-mediated 3D chromatin predetermines the meiotic gene expression program in the male germline

Ching-Ho Chang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA (PI: Harmit Malik) Genetic conflicts shape rapid evolution of young Drosophila protamines

Alex Zelensky, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Chromosome Pairing Through Tensioned DNA Tethers Revealed by BRCA2 Meiotic Domain Deletion

MODERATORS: Francis McNally, Regina Bohn, Wenzhe Li

Yan Yun, Shantou Central Hospital, China Oocytes from juvenile mice have high levels of chromosome segregation errors due to excess cohesion

Alyssa Quiogue, University of Oregon (IMB), USA (PI: Bruce Bowerman) Sub-cortical microtubules oppose actomyosin-driven membrane ingression throughout the oocyte during C. elegans meiosis I polar body extrusion

Chris Morgan, John Innes Centre, UK (PI: Martin Howard) Exploring HEI10 coarsening dynamics with live-imaging

Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, UC Berkeley, USA (PI: Nicole King) The adhesion GPCR cupidon regulates mating in the closest relatives of animals

Keynote speaker: Simone Koehler, EMBL, Germany Real-time imaging of crossover formation in C. elegans

Xuefeng Meng, MIT/Whitehead Institute, USA (PI: Yukiko Yamashita) Asymmetric segregation of Stellate during meiosis leads to meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster

MODERATORS: JoAnne Engebrecht, Frédéric Baudat, Bruce Draper

Karine Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (PI: Yaniv Elkouby) Coordinated Control of Chromosomal Pairing and Centrosome Regulation by the bouquet-MTOC machinery in Meiosis and Oocyte Polarity

Verena Jantsch, Max Perutz Labs, Austria Facilitating Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics: Insights into Chromatin Reorganization and Movement

Alex (Chih-Yu) Yang, Harvard University, USA (PI: Nancy Kleckner) Homologous pairing is facilitated by axis development-mediated chromosome bundling and nuclear organization before karyogamy in Sordaria

Joseph Davy, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, UK (PI: Enrique Martinez-Perez) Biochemical and biophysical investigation of C. elegans meiotic cohesin complexes

Elvira Nikalayevich, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, France (PI: Marie-Emilie Terret and Marie-Hélène Verlhac) Aberrant cortex contractions impact mammalian oocyte quality

Keynote speaker: Frank Uhlmann, Francis Crick Institute, UK Life without Loop Extrusion