International Congress on Transposable elements (ICTE 2016) in Saint Malo: mobile elements under the sun of Brittany

Pascale Lesage (1) , Mireille Bétermier (2) , Antoine Bridier-Nahmias (3, 1) , Michael Chandler (4) , Séverine Chambeyron (5) , Gael Cristofari (6) , Nicolas Gilbert (7) , Hadi Quesneville (8) , Chantal Vaury (9) , Jean-Nicolas Volff (10)

1 Pathologie cellulaire : aspects moléculaires et viraux / Pathologie et Virologie Moléculaire
2 I2BC - Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule
3 CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]
4 LMGM - Laboratoire de microbiologie et génétique moléculaires - UMR5100
5 IGH - Institut de génétique humaine
6 IRCAN - Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer et le Vieillissement
7 Cellules Souches, Plasticité Cellulaire, Médecine Régénératrice et Immunothérapies (IRMB)
8 URGI - Unité de Recherche Génomique Info
9 GReD - Génétique, Reproduction et Développement
10 IGFL - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon

The third international conference on Transposable Elements (ICTE) was held 16-19 April 2016 in Saint Malo, France. Organized by the French Transposition Community (Research group of the CNRS: "Mobile genetic elements: from mechanism to populations, an integrative approach") and the French Society of Genetics, the conference's goal was to bring together researchers who study transposition in diverse organisms, using multiple experimental approaches. The meeting gathered 180 participants from all around the world. Most of them contributed through poster presentations, invited talks and short talks selected from poster abstracts. The talks were organized into six scientific sessions: "Taming mobile DNA: self and non-self recognition"; "Trans-generational inheritance"; "Mobile DNA genome structure and organization, from molecular mechanisms to applications"; "Remembrance of (retro) transposon past: mobile DNA in genome evolution"; and finally "The yin and the yang of mobile DNA in human health".

Keywords: Transposable elements; Control of transposition; Transposon-based gene therapy; Mechanism of transposition; Evolution of transposable elements; Impact on genomes

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Pascale Lesage, Mireille Bétermier, Antoine Bridier-Nahmias, Michael Chandler, Séverine Chambeyron, et al.. International Congress on Transposable elements (ICTE 2016) in Saint Malo: mobile elements under the sun of Brittany. Mobile DNA, 2016, 7 (1), pp.19. ⟨10.1186/s13100-016-0075-7⟩. ⟨inserm-01384467⟩