Program

13:00 - 14:00

Registration

14:00 - 14:10

Opening Comments

14:10 - 14:40

Keynote
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

19h30

Dinner at "Le Barbe Zingue"

9:30 - 10:00

Keynote
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
TBA

11:55 - 12:10

Selected 8

12:10 - 12:25

Selected 9

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch and poster session #1

Session 3

14:30 - 15:00

Keynote
Maria Jasin, Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA
TBA

15:00 - 15:20

Roland Kanaar, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands

TBA

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

19h30

Dinner at "Le Barbe Zingue"

Friday 2 October 2026

9:30 - 10:00

Keynote
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

14:30 - 15:00

Keynote
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