A comprehensive meeting on current aspects of DNA repair organized by, Jochen Dahm-Daphi, Ekkehard Dikomey, Alexander B_rkle, Marlis Frankenberg-Schwager, Frank Grosse, Andrea Hartwig, George Iliakis, Bernd Kaina, J_rgen Thomale, and Lisa Wiesm_ller was held in Hamburg, Germany from September 12 to 15, 2006. This article summarizes information of invited lectures and proferred papers of six plenary sessions.