title: International Congress on Transposable Elements (ICTE) 2012 in Saint Malo and the sea of TE stories.
abstract: An international conference on Transposable Elements (TEs) was held 21-24 April 2012 in Saint Malo, France. Organized by the French Transposition Community (GDR Elements Génétiques Mobiles et Génomes, CNRS) and the French Society of Genetics (SFG), the conference's goal was to bring together researchers from around the world who study transposition in diverse organisms using multiple experimental approaches. The meeting drew more than 217 attendees and most contributed through poster presentations (117), invited talks and short talks selected from poster abstracts (48 in total). The talks were organized into four scientific sessions, focused on: impact of TEs on genomes, control of transposition, evolution of TEs and mechanisms of transposition. Here, we present highlights from the talks given during the platform sessions. The conference was sponsored by Alliance pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (Aviesan), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Université de Perpignan, Université de Rennes 1, Région Bretagne and Mobile DNA. CHAIR OF THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Jean-Marc Deragon ORGANIZERS: Abdelkader Ainouche, Mireille Bétermier, Mick Chandler, Richard Cordaux, Gaël Cristofari, Jean-Marc Deragon, Pascale Lesage, Didier Mazel, Olivier Panaud, Hadi Quesneville, Chantal Vaury, Cristina Vieira and Clémentine Vitte.
authors.affiliation: CNRS Université Paris Diderot UMR7212, INSERM U944, Laboratoire Pathologie et Virologie Moléculaire, Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital St Louis, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, Paris, F-75010, France. pascale.lesage@univ-paris-diderot.fr.
authors.forename: Abdelkader
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ainouche
authors.forename: Mireille
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bétermier
authors.forename: Mick
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chandler
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cordaux
authors.forename: Gaël
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cristofari
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Deragon
authors.forename: Pascale
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authors.lastname: Lesage
authors.forename: Olivier
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authors.lastname: Panaud
authors.forename: Hadi
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authors.lastname: Quesneville
authors.forename: Chantal
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authors.lastname: Vaury
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Clémentine
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authors.lastname: Vitte