2010 Rustbelt RNA Meeting
RRM
Agenda
Friday, Oct 22 | |
11:00-12:30pm | Registration |
12:30-12:45pm | Opening Remarks - Organizers (Saba Valadkhan, David Rueda, Paula Bubulya, John Means) |
Session I: Keynote Lecture I | |
12:45-01:30pm | miRNAs and mRNPs: where we are today Timothy W. Nilsen RNA Center/Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University |
Session II: Non Coding RNAs (Leonard Lipovich) | |
01:30-01:45pm | Mechanistic Analysis of The Function of A Large Non-coding RNA Bing Zhang, Fereshteh Kenari, Saba Valadkhan Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University |
01:45-02:00pm | A Global Mechanism for Non-coding RNA Dependent Chromatin Formation in Mammals Ahmad M Khalil, John L. Rinn RNA Center, Case Western University School of Medicine |
02:00-02:15pm | Decapping regulates non-coding RNA-dependent histone modification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sarah Geisler, Lisa Lojek, Jeff Coller Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University |
02:15-02:30pm | Biogenesis of Mirtrons Independent of Splicing and the Microprocessor Mallory A. Havens, Ashley A. Reich, Michelle L. Hastings Cell Biology and Anatomy, Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA |
02:30-02:50pm | Coffee Break |
Session III: Regulation (Rick Padgett) | |
02:50-03:10pm | A meiotic gene regulatory cascade driven by alternative fates for newly synthesized transcripts Nicole Cremona, Kristine Potter, Jo Ann Wise Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Case Western Reserve Univ. |
03:10-03:25pm | Detailed analysis of one step of ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Aarti Sahasranaman, John Strahler, Philip Andrews, Janine Maddock, John Woolford Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University |
03:25-03:40pm | eIF2α phosphorylation dependent regulation of XBP1 mRNA turnover amplifies the UPR signaling during ER stress. Mithu Majumder, Dawid Krokowski, Charlie Huang, Chuanping Wang, Maria Hatzoglou Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University. |
03:40-03:55pm | Ribosomal protein L13a-dependent translational silencing resolves inflammation: A study with macrophage-specific KO mouse. Darshana Poddar, Abhijit Basu, Fatih Gulen, Barsanjit Mazumder Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland |
03:55-04:15pm | Protein contacts among termination and polyadenylation factors that control mRNA 3' end fate. Thomas Leeper, Gabriele Varani University of Akron |
04:15-04:35pm | Coffee Break - PIs Meeting |
Session IV: Structure (Barbara Golden) | |
04:35-04:50pm | Mechanistic insights into 3'--5' nucleotide addition by tRNAHis guanylyltransferase (Thg1) Brian A. Smith, Jane E Jackman The Ohio State University |
04:50-05:05pm | Single molecule studies of the c-di-GMP riboswitch Sharla Wood, Nadia Kulshina, Adrian Ferre-DAmare, David Rueda Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
05:05-05:20pm | Molecular Mechanics Analysis of Minimum Energy RNA Conformational Dynamics Pathways Keith P. Van Nostrand, Scott D. Kennedy, Douglas H. Turner, David H. Mathews Department of Biochemistry and Biophyics, University of Rochester |
05:20-05:35pm | Efficiency of riboswitch terminator folding during transcription Michael Widom, Ben Sauerwine Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University |
05:35-05:50pm | G-quadruplexes in Arabidopsis thaliana: Folding cooperativity and implications for drought stress regulation Melissa A. Mullen, Kalee J. Olson, Paul Dallaire, François Major, Sarah M. Assmann, Philip C. Bevilacqua Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University |
Session V: Keynote Lecture II | |
06:00-07:00pm | Structural and sequence-space analysis of natural and artificial catalytic RNAs Adrian Ferre-DAmare Howard Hughes Medical Institute, F. Hutchinson Cancer Ctr. |
07:00-08:30pm | Dinner |
Session VI: Poster Session | |
08:30-09:45pm | Odd Posters |
09:45-11:00pm | Even Posters |
Saturday, Oct 23 | |
07:30-08:30am | Continental Breakfast |
Session VII: RNA and Pathogens (Pat Limbach) | |
08:30-08:50am | Elucidating the RNA-protein complex of Plasmodium telomerase Kausik Chakrabarti Dept. of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University |
08:50-09:05am | Characterization of an RNA-binding pentatricopeptide repeat protein from Trypanosoma brucei. Pakoyo F Kamba, Jennifer L Ekstrom, David A Dickson, Charles G Hoogstraten Biochemistry and Molecular Biology / Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Michigan State University |
09:05-09:20am | Identification of proteins involved in alternative polyadenylation during infection by herpes simplex virus 1. Huda Hyjazie, Angela Pearson INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier |
09:20-09:35am | Molecular Mimicry of primer tRNALys3 by HIV-1 RNA genome facilitates viral replication Christopher P. Jones, Jenan Saadatmand, Lawrence Kleiman, Karin Musier-Forsyth Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 |
09:35-09:50am | Regulation of PKR by HCV IRES RNA: Importance of Domain II Rebecca Toroney, Subba Rao Nallagatla, Joshua A. Boyer, Craig E. Cameron, Philip C. Bevilacqua Department of Chemistry, Penn State University |
09:50-10:10am | Coffee Break |
Session VIII: Modifying RNA (Juan Alfonzo) | |
10:10-10:25am | Shining the Light on Dim2 Heather Woolls, Katrin Karbstsein Chemical Biology Doctoral Program, University of Michigan |
10:25-10:40am | A Tale of Two Editing Domains: Molecular Basis of Substrate Specificity of Bacterial Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase and YbaK Sandeep Kumar, Mom Das, Christopher M. Hadad, Karin Musier-Forsyth Chemistry, Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University |
10:40-10:55am | Investigation of debranching enzyme Molly Evans, Eduardo Paredes, Mark Macbeth, Subha R. Das Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University |
10:55-11:10am | Antisense oligonucleotide correction of splicing in a mouse model of Usher syndrome Francine M. Jodelka, Anthony Hinrich, Kate McCaffrey, Jennifer J. Lentz, Dominik M. Duelli, Michelle L. Hastings Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA |
11:10-11:25am | Elucidation of the binding determinants for hnRNP A1 on HIV-1 splice site A7 Jeffrey Levengood, Clay Mishler, Brittany Felder, Elissa Falconer, Nitika Dewan, Blanton Tolbert Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University |
11:25-11:45am | Coffee Break |
Session IX: Ribotechniques and Bioinformatics (Phil Bevilacqua) | |
11:45-12:00pm | RNA fingerprinting by the phi29 DNA packaging motor nanopore Jia Geng, Farzin Haque, Jing Peng, Dan Shu, Peixuan Guo Nanobiomedical Center, University of Cincinnati |
12:00-12:15pm | Dual-channel single-molecule fluorescent resonance energy transfer to establish distance constraints for RNA nanoparticles Dan Shu, Hui Zhang, Roman Petrenko, Jarek Meller, Peixuan Guo Nanobiomedical Center, College of Engineering and Applied Science/College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati |
12:15-12:30pm | Real-Time Super-Resolution Tracking of Single Deoxyribozyme Based Molecular Robots Anthony J. Manzo, Alexander Johnson-Buck, Nils G. Walter, Kyle Lund, Jeanette Nangreave, Hao Yan, Nicole Michelotti, Steven K. Taylor, Renjun Pei, Milan N. Stojanovic, Nadine Dabby, Erik Winfree Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
12:30-12:50pm | A 1.9 Å crystal structure of the HDV ribozyme precleavage suggest both Lewis acid and general acid mechanisms contribute to phosphodiester cleavage Jui-Hui Chen, Rieko Yajima, Durga M. Chadalavada, Elaine Chase, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Barbara L. Golden Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University |
12:50-01:10pm | Transcription and splicing of large human genes Richard A. Padgett, Jarnail Singh Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic |
01:10-01:30pm | Systems biology of the lncRNAome: computational-experimental integration assigns long non-coding RNA molecules to specific regulatory networks. Leonard Lipovich, Hui Jia, Jameelah Sheik Mohamed, Paul Robson, Shruti Bagla, Fabien Dachet, Jeffrey A. Loeb Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University |
01:30-01:50pm | Small angle x-ray scattering analysis of the basepaired complex of U6 and U2 snRNAs points to an RNA chaperone role for proteins in assembly of the spliceosomal active site Zheng Li, Shihu Wang, Elena Dormidontova, Farshad Niazi, Caroline Lee, Saba Valadkhan, Alex. M. Jamieson, James L. Manley Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University |
01:50-02:00pm | Closing Remarks and Awards - 2011 Organizers (Paula Bubulya, John Means) |