MODERATORS: Marie-Emilie Terret, Bernard de Massy

 Jeff Sekelsky: Scott Hawley’s memorial

 Keynote speaker: Elvan Böke (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain). Evading ageing: lessons from oocytes

 Victor Leon, New York University (PI: Andreas Hochwagen) Crossover designation recruits condensin to reorganize the meiotic chromosome axis

 Marion Herbette, University of Edinburgh (PI: Laura Ross) How can a selfish chromosome escape genome-wide meiotic drive?

 Hasibe Tuncay, Universität Hamburg (PI: Arp Schnittger) DREAMing Meiosis: Transcriptional regulation of homologous recombination by the DREAM-complex in Arabidopsis thaliana

 Tom Parée, IBENS & NYU (PI: Henrique Teotónio) Selection for recombination impairs adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans

MODERATORS : Laurent Duret, Frédéric Baudat

 Keynote speaker: Felicity Jones (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). Recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish

 Lavernchy Jovanska, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (PI: Wang Ting-Fang) DNA Cytosine Methyltransferases Differentially Regulate Genome-wide Hypermutation and Interhomolog Recombination in Trichoderma reesei meiosis

    Valentine Petiot, Institute of Genetics, Reproduction & Development (Clermont-Ferrand, France) (PI: Olivier Da Ines) Dual role of Arabidopsis SRS2 helicase in meiotic recombination

  William Gittens, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK Top3 tracks crossover migration towards the meiotic chromosome axis

  Ana Cobos, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) (PI: Simone Koehler) Let’s pair! Isoform-specific pairing ensures the correct chromosome segregation in C. elegans meiosis

 Tabea Lilian Marx, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (PI: Melina Schuh) Revealing the secrets of ovulation

MODERATORS : Thomas Robert, Chloé Girard

 Keynote speaker: Ofer Rog (University of Utah, USA). Regulating sister interactions during meiosis

 Marcel Ernst, Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (PI: Dr. David Zwicker) Coarsening model of crossover placement with exchange via nucleoplasm

 Priyanka Priyadarshini, Université catholique de Louvain (PI: Corentin Claeys Bouuaert) A SUMO-SIM interaction fosters chromatin recruitment of Mre11 during meiosis

 Alice Chanteau, INRAE - IJPB (PI: Rajeev Kumar) Moss BRCA2 without canonical DNA binding domain promotes efficient homologous recombination

 Alexandre Pelé, Laboratory of Genome Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (PI: Piotr A. Ziolkowski) Cold-induced meiotic crossover variation in Arabidopsis diversity is driven by SNI1 and its polymorphism

 LingSze Lee, NICHD/NIH (PI: Leah F. Rosin) Chromosome-specific patterns of CO formation in the pantry moth

MODERATORS: Bertrand Llorente, Rajeev Kumar

 Keynote speaker: Francesca Cole (MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, USA). Crossover assurance in mouse spermatocytes

 Sara Hariri, University of California, Davis (PI: Neil Hunter) The meiotic DNA damage response is augmented by SUMOylation of HORMA domain protein, Hop1

 Wenxin Xie, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (PI: Saher Sue Hammoud) ZCWPW1 Drives Meiotic Chromosome Pairing by Recombination-Nuclear Envelope Dynamics Coupling

 Benoît Madec, I2BC, France (PI: Chloé Girard) Polymorphism drastically impacts meiotic crossover distribution in Arabidopsis thaliana

 Lucija Orlić, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna (PI: Joao Matos) A system to dissect the in vivo outcome(s) of meiotic double Holliday junction processing by Holliday junction resolvases and the STR/BTR complex

 Lexy von Diezmann, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development The synaptonemal complex compartmentalizes the diffusion of meiotic signals