2007
Rustbelt RNA Meeting
RRM
Agenda
Friday, Oct 19 | |
12:00-01:00pm | Meeting Registration (Foyer) |
01:00-01:10pm | Opening Remarks |
Session I: Regulation and Stability | |
01:10-01:30pm | Probing Functions for Son in Nuclear Speckle Structure and Gene Expression. Alok Sharma, Sapna Varia, Athanasios Bubulya, Paula A. Bubulya Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University |
01:30-01:50pm | Coupling of ATP binding and hydrolysis to duplex unwinding by the DEAD-box protein Ded1p Fei Liu, Huijue Jia, Eckhard Jankowsky Department of Physics,Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH |
01:50-02:10pm | Regulation of translation by mRNA decapping factors Wenqian Hu, Thomas Sweet, Jeff Coller Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Casee Western Reserve Univesrity |
02:10-02:30pm | Coffee break (short PI meeting in auditorium) |
Session II: miRNA | |
02:30-02:50pm | A lentiviral-based genetic library for microRNA and its applications Zhongxin Lu, Yanglong Zhu, Yong Li Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
02:50-03:10pm | MicroRNA hsa-mir-346 As A Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene Yanglong Zhu Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Louisville |
03:10-06:00pm | Poster Session |
03:20-04:40pm | odd numbers present |
04:40-06:00pm | even numbers present |
06:00-07:00pm | Dinner (Upstairs in the Mezzanine) |
Session III: tRNA | |
07:10-07:30pm | Determinates of Binding and Editing of the Adenosine to Inosine tRNA editing complex from Trypanosoma brucei Frank Ragone, Otavio Thiemann, Jessica Wohlgamuth-Benedum, Juan Alfonzo Microbiology The Ohio State University |
07:30-07:50pm | Role of the P/E state in ribosomal translocation Sarah E. Walker, Kurt Fredrick Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University |
07:50-08:10pm | C to U Editing at Position 32 of the Anticodon Loop Precedes tRNA 5' Leader Removal in Trypanosomatids Kirk W. Gaston, Mary-Anne T. Rubio, Jessica L. Spears, Irena Pastar , F. Nina Papvasiliou, Juan D. Alfonzo Microbiology, The Ohio State University |
08:10-08:30pm | The Effect of Oxidative Stress on the Levels of tRNA Modifications Peter Palenchar Dept. of Chemistry; Rutgers University-Camden |
08:30-08:50pm | Probing the mechanism and substrate specificity of the unusual 3'-5' polymerization reaction catalyzed by the tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1) Jane E Jackman, Eric M Phizicky, Sasha Lebedev Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
08:50-09:10pm | Coffee break |
Session IV: pRNA | |
09:10-09:30pm | Instrumentation and metrology for single RNA counting in biological complexes or nanoparticles by a single-molecule dual-view system Hui Zhang, Dan Shu, Faqing Huang, Peixuan Guo Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati |
09:30-09:50pm | Engineering of an active artificial bacteriophage phi29 pRNA Feng Xiao, Nick Snead, Hui Zhang, Peixuan Guo Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati |
09:50-10:10pm | Interaction with pRNA and DNA-dependent ATP hydrolysis of gp16 of bacterial virus phi29 DNA packaging motor Tae Jin Lee, Hui Zhang, Peixuan Guo Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati |
10:10-10:20pm | Presentation of the Poster Awards |
10:20-12:00am | Evening Reception (Central Lobby Area) All PIs - please stay in the auditorium for the RRM08 planning meeting |
Saturday, Oct 20 | |
07:10-08:10am | Continental Breakfast (Rafter's Restaurant with Coupon) |
Session V: RNA splicing | |
08:20-08:40am | FOX, SF1 and SR proteins cooperate directly in the assembly of U2AF and the prespliceosomal E complex Hua-Lin Zhou, Hua Lou Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University |
08:40-09:00am | Elucidating a role for Btf in pre-mRNA transcription and splicing Sapna Varia, Zhihui Deng, Alok Sharma, Dr.Tom Bubulya, Dr.Paula Bubulya Biomedical Sciences, Wright State University |
09:00-09:20am | Yeast SUV3 Promotes Group I Intron Splicing by Recycling Co-factors from Excised Intron RNPs Edward M. Turk, Alycia Conway, Mark G. Caprara The Center for RNA Molecular Biology - Case Western Reserve University |
09:20-09:40am | Molecular mechanism of genotoxic stress induced alternative splicing of MDM2 Ravi K Singh, Dawn S Chandler Center for Childhood Cancer,Childrens Research Institute and department of pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. |
09:40-10:00am | Regulation of NF1 Alternative Splicing By CELF Proteins Victoria A. Barron, Hui Zhu, Andrea N. Ladd, Hua Lou Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University |
10:00-10:20am | Coffee break |
Session VI: RNA structure | |
10:20-10:40am | Structural studies of the Bacillus subtilis T box antiterminator/tRNA model complex John A. Means, Crystal M. Simson, Jeffrey J. Rack, Jennifer V. Hines Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University |
10:40-11:00am | Active Site Architecture and Global Stability of the Hairpin Ribozyme Mark A. Ditzler, Nils G. Walter Biophysics University of Michigan |
11:00-11:20am | Conformationally restricted nucleotides as a biophysical probe of RNA thermodynamics, catalysis, and protein binding Minako Sumita, Kristine R. Julien, Po-Han Chen, Ite Laird-Offringa, Charles G. Hoogstraten Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University |
11:20-11:40am | Mapping the in situ RNA binding specificity of the SR protein SF2/ASF using CLIP-Seq Jeremy Sanford, Xin Wang, Xinguo Wang, Yunlong Liu Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
11:40-12:00pm | Mechanism of the hairpin ribozyme: Thermodynamics and kinetics of intermolecular domain docking Charles G. Hoogstraten, Minako Sumita, Kristine R. Julien Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University |
12:00-12:20pm | Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Oral Awards |