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Day 1 - Wednesday, September 30 2026

13:00 - 14:00 Registration
14:00 - 14:10 Opening comments

Session 1 - Keynote

14:10 - 14:40 Stephen West, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
RecA to RAD51: 50 Years of Discovery
14:40 - 15:00 Rajeev Kumar, INRAE, France
Insights into functions of RAD51 paralogs in Moss 
(Physcomitrium patens)   
15:00 - 15:15 Selected 1
15:15 - 15:30 Selected 2
15:30 - 15:45 Selected 3
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50 Pauline Dupaigne, Institut Gustave Roussy, France
TBA
16:50 - 17:05 Selected 4
19:30 Dinner at « Le Barbe Zingue »

Day 2 - Thursday, October 01 2026

Session 2 - Keynote

09:30 - 10:00 Xiadong Zhang, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
Structures and mechanisms of RAD51 modulators
10:00 - 10:20 Angela Taddei, Institut Curie, France
Structure and Dynamics of Rad51 filaments during 
homology search
10:20 - 10:35 Selected 5
10:35 - 10:50 Selected 6
10:50 - 11:05 Selected 7
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break
11:35 - 11:55 Wolf Heyer, University of California, USA
Structures and functions of yeast Rad51 paralog complexes
11:55 - 12:10 Selected 8
12:10 - 12:25 Selected 9
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and poster session #1

Session 3 - Keynote

14:30 - 15:00 Maria Jasin, Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA
TBA
15:00 - 15:20 Roland Kanaar, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Dual posttranslational BRCA2 modification drives RAD51 
nucleoprotein filament assembly
15:20 - 15:35 Selected 10
15:35 - 15:50 Selected 11
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 16:40 Kara Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
RAD51D promotes RAD51 filament formation by 
regulating BCDX2 ATPase activity
16:40 - 16:55 Selected 12
16:55 - 17:10 Selected 13
19:30 Dinner at « Le Barbe Zingue »

Day 3 - Friday, October 02 2026

Session 4 - Keynote

09:30 - 10:00 Vincenzo Costanzo, IFOM, Italy
The expanding roles of homologous recombination proteins
10:00 - 10:20 Akira Shinohara, Osaka University, Japan
The molecular mechanism and regulation of 
RAD51/DMC1/RecA-mediated homology search and 
strand exchange
10:20 - 10:35 Selected 14
10:35 - 10:50 Selected 15
10:50 - 11:05 Selected 16
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break
11:35 - 11:55 Steve Kowalczykowski, University of California, USA
TBA
11:55 - 12:10 Selected 17
12:10 - 12:25 Selected 18
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and poster session #2

Session 5 - Keynote

14:30 - 15:00 David Cortez, Vanderbilt University, USA
Function and regulation of RAD51 in replication fork reversal
15:00 - 15:20 Aurèle Piazza, ENS Lyon, France
Individual and conjoined roles of Rad55-Rad57 and Srs2 in 
regulating homology search
15:20 - 15:35 Selected 19
15:35 - 15:50 Selected 20
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 16:40 Pablo Radicella, CEA, France
Interplay of helicases during natural transformation of 
Helicobacter pylori
16:40 - 16:55 Selected 21
16:55 - 17:10 Closing comments
17:30 End of the event