2008 Rustbelt RNA Meeting
RRM
Agenda
Friday, Oct 17 | |
12:00-01:00pm | Meeting Registration (Foyer) |
01:00-01:10pm | Opening Remarks (Organizers, Dawn Chandler and Girish Shukla and Founder, Dan Schoenberg) |
Session I: Translation Control & Stability (Dawn Chandler) | |
01:10-01:30pm | Title not published online - please see printed booklet Abul Arif, Paul L. Fox Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195 |
01:30-01:50pm | Genome wide screening for target mRNAs silenced translationally upon IFN-gamma treatment Keyur Vyas, Sujan Chaudhuri, Anton A. Komar,, Douglas Leaman, Alla Musiyenko, Sailen Barik, Barsanjit Mazumder Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, BGES, Cleveland State Univ., OH |
01:50-02:10pm | The Ena/VASP proteins are unanticipated partners of the PMR1 mRNA endonuclease that may function to localize mRNA decay Yong Peng, Xiaoqiang Liu, Elizabeth Murray, Madhubanti Sarkar, Daniel Schoenberg Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, OSU |
02:10-02:30pm | Eukaryotic mRNA decay occurs on polyribosomes Wenqian Hu, Thomas Sweet, Kristian E. Baker, Jeff Coller Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University |
02:30-02:50pm | Investigating the role for the 3’ UTR in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay Edward M. Turk, Caitlin Finelli, Kristian E. Baker Center for RNA Molecular Biology, CWRU |
02:50-03:10pm | Coffee Break |
Session II: Regulation & RNA Processing (Andrea Ladd) | |
03:10-03:30pm | Induction of neuronal differentiation in muscle precursor cells by a large non-coding RNA Bing Zhang, Fereshteh Jahaniani Kenari Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA |
03:30-03:50pm | Interdependence of poly(A) polymerase and helicase activities in the TRAMP complex Huijue Jia, Xuying Wang, Fei Liu, James T. Anderson, Eckhard Jankowsky Department of Biochemistry, Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University |
03:50-04:10pm | DEAD-box proteins utilize different displacement approaches for RNA duplexes unwinding. Ivelitza Garcia, Olke C. Uhlenbeck Chemistry Department, Allegheny College |
04:10-04:30pm | Single molecule observations of pre-mRNA dynamics during splicing Mario R. Blanco, Mark Ditzler, Frank Fuller, Mona Wood, John Abelson, Nils Walter Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan |
04:30-04:50pm | The ability to catalyze protein-free splicing is phylogenetically conserved from yeast to human Caroline Lee, Saba Valadkhan Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University |
04:50-05:10pm | Break and short PI organizational meeting |
Session III: RNA and human disease (Saba Valadkhan) | |
05:10-05:30pm | Mouse Smn Exon 7 C>T: A Smn2 like Knock-in Mouse Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Jordan T. Gladman, Thomas W. Bebee, Dawn S. Chandler The Center for Childhood Cancer, Columbus Children’s Research Institute, The Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University. |
05:30-05:50pm | The use of peptides for novel antibiotic development against the bacterial ribosome Anne-Cecile E. Duc, Mei Li, Christine S. Chow Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
05:50-06:10pm | Inositol phosphate-mediated switch in the nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 Gag Christopher P. Jones, Siddhartha A. K. Datta, Alan Rein, Karin Musier-Forsyth Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
06:10-06:30pm | MicroRNAs in the NF-kappaB Pathway Zhongxin Lu, Apana Takwi, Yanglong Zhu, Yong Li Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
06:30-07:30pm | Dinner (Upstairs in the Mezzanine) |
Session IV: Poster Session - Scarlet Oak Room | |
07:30-09:00pm | Odd posters present |
09:00-10:30pm | Even Posters present |
10:30-12:00am | Evening Reception (Central Lobby Area) |
11:30-12:00am | Please remove posters by midnight |
Saturday, Oct 18 | |
07:00-08:00am | Continental Breakfast (Rafter's Restaurant with Coupon) |
Session V: Structure (Jane Jackman) | |
08:00-08:20am | Heat Shock and Post-transcriptional Modifications in bacterial ribosomal RNA Susan Russell, Dr. Patrick Limbach University of Cincinnati |
08:20-08:40am | Genetic identification of 16S rRNA residues required for accurate start codon selection Daoming Qin, Kurt Fredrick The Ohio State Biochemistry Program |
08:40-09:00am | NMR studies of protein interactions in archaeal RNase P Yiren Xu, Carlos D. Amero, William P. Boomershine, Mark P. Foster OSU Biochemistry |
09:00-09:20am | A catalytic metal ion interacts with the cleavage site G•U wobble in the HDV ribozyme Jui-Hui Chen, Bo Gong, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Paul R. Carey, Barbara L. Golden Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 |
09:20-09:40am | A conformational change regulates cleavage to generate the 3’ end of 18S rRNA in yeast Allison C. Lamanna, Katrin Karbstein Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan |
09:40-10:00am | Laser-Assisted Single Molecule Refolding Rui Zhao, Elvin A. Alem225n, Rajan Lamichhane, David Rueda Chemistry, Wayne State University |
10:00-10:20am | Coffee Break |
Session VI: RNA Complex Interactions & Bioinformatics (Girish Shukla) | |
10:20-10:40am | pRNA and DNA-dependent ATPase activity of gp16 of bacterial virus phi29 DNA packaging motor Tae Jin Lee, Hui Zhang, Dan Liang, Peixuan Guo Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati |
10:40-11:00am | Retrovirus-Specific Differences in Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Implications for Genomic RNA Packaging Meng Sun, Robert J. Gorelick, Louis M. Mansky, Karin Musier-Forsyth Departments of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 |
11:00-11:20am | Novel mechanism of hexamer assembly in protein/RNA interactions revealed by single molecule imaging. Feng Xiao, Hui Zhang, Peixuan Guo Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati |
11:20-11:40am | RNA Paranemic-Binding Motifs for Biosensing and Nano-assembly Irina Novikova, Kirill A. Afonin, Evgeny O. Danilov, Neocles B. Leontis Chemistry, Bowling Green State University |
11:40-11:55am | hnRNPH is required for optimal binding of U1 snRNP and helps recruit hnRNPF to a complex array of G runs that regulate PLP/DM20 rati Erming Wang, Giulio Disanto, Franca Cambi Neurology, University of Kentucky |
11:55-12:10pm | Visualizing non-consensus interpositional requirements in nucleic-acid families William Ray The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital |
12:10-12:25pm | Gene hunting with forests for multigroup time course data Ariadni Papana, Hemant Ishwaran Department of Mathematics, Cleveland State University |
12:25-12:40pm | Closing remarks and presentation of awards (2009 Organizer, Girish Shukla & 2009 Co-organizer, to be named) |