2011 Rustbelt RNA Meeting
RRM
Agenda
Friday, Oct 21 | |
11:00-01:00pm | Registration |
12:00-01:00pm | Lunch Social |
01:00-01:10pm | Welcome and Opening remarks |
Session I: Nucleic acid structure and regulation | |
01:15-01:30pm | Inference of recurrent 3D RNA motifs from sequence James Roll, Craig L. Zirbel, Anton I. Petrov, Neocles B. Leontis Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH 43403 |
01:30-01:45pm | Computational studies of the structure, dynamics and catalysis in the HDV ribozyme Abir Ganguly, Narayanan Veeraraghavan, Barbara L. Golden, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University |
01:45-02:00pm | Entropic and enthalpic activation parameters of dodecamer DNA duplex formation is dependent on sequence Brittany M. Rauzan, Alice Deckert Chemistry Department, Allegheny College |
02:00-02:15pm | Global analysis of small non coding RNAs in malaria pathogen Shrabani Basu, Will Foran, Ben Sauerwine, Michael Widom, Kausik Chakrabarti Department of Chemistry and Center For Nucleic Acids Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 |
02:15-02:30pm | Nucleoside Triphosphate Phosphohydrolase I (NPH I) DNA template requirements in Vaccinia Early Gene Transcription Termination. Ryan Hindman , Paul Gollnick Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo |
02:30-02:45pm | TRAP-mediated Transcription Termination at a Deficient Intrinsic Terminator Natalie Merlino, Paul Gollnick Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo |
02:45-03:15pm | Coffee Break |
Session II: Gene regulation and expression | |
03:15-03:30pm | Identification of re-capping substrates for the cytoplasmic Capping enzyme complex Chandrama Mukherjee, Deepak Patil, Brian Kennedy, Baskar Bakthavachalu, Ralf Bundschuh, Daniel R. Schoenberg Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
03:30-03:45pm | Identification of the human PMR1 mRNA endonuclease as an alternatively processed product of the gene for peroxidasin-like protein Shan-Qing Gu, Baskar Bakthavachalu, Joonhee Han, Deepak Patil, Yuichi Otsuka, Chittibabu Guda, Daniel R. Schoenberg Center for RNA Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1218 |
03:45-04:00pm | A novel feedback loop regulates the response to endoplasmic reticulum stress via the cooperation of cytoplasmic splicing and mRNA translation Mithu Majumder, Charlie Huang, Martin D. Snider, Anton A. Komar, Randal J. Kaufman, Dawid Krokowski and Maria Hatzoglou Department of Nutrition, Case Western University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106. |
04:00-04:15pm | The Yeast 60S Subunit is Structured by Ribosomal Proteins in a Stepwise Fashion Michael Gamalinda, Jelena Jakovljevic, Jan Linnemann, Reyes Babiano, Jesus de la Cruz, Philipp Milkereit, John Woolford, Jr. Carnegie Mellon University |
04:15-04:30pm | Exploration of the Ribosome’s Rescue Mechanism By Single Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer May Daher Farhat, David Rueda Chemistry Department, Wayne State University |
04:30-04:45pm | Computational analysis of functional long non-coding RNAs reveals lack of peptide-coding capacity and parallels with 3'UTRs Farshad Niazi, Saba Valadkhan Valadkhan Lab, RNA Center, CWRU |
04:45-05:00pm | Stretch Break |
Session III: Keynote Lecture | |
05:00-06:00pm | Long non-coding RNAs involved in nuclear organization and function David L. Spector Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
06:00-06:30pm | PI Meeting in ballroom lobby area |
06:00-06:30pm | Poster Setup |
06:30-07:30pm | Dinner in Ballroom |
07:30-09:00pm | Poster Session I (odd numbered posters) |
09:00-10:30pm | Poster Session II (even numbered posters) |
10:30-12:30am | Reception upstairs in restaurant |
Saturday, Oct 22 | |
06:30-08:30am | Breakfast upstairs in restaurant |
Session IV: tRNA modification and processing | |
08:30-08:45am | Post-translational modification of a translation factor by a tRNA synthetase paralog Herve Roy, Tammy J. Bullwinkle, William W. Navarre, Michael Ibba Ohio State University |
08:45-09:00am | Substrate specificity of Trm10: a multifunctional tRNA modification enzyme William E. Swinehart, Jane E. Jackman Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The Ohio State University |
09:00-09:15am | A Common Modification in an Unusual Place: Avoiding Conundrums in Mitochondrial Translation Paul Sample, Ludek Koreny, Zdenek Paris, Julius Lukes, Juan Alfonzo Microbiology - The Ohio State University |
09:15-09:30am | Title not published online - please see printed booklet Zdenek Paris, Kirk Gaston, Paul Sample, Ian Fleming, Mary Anne Rubio, Juan Alfonzo Microbiology, The Ohio State University |
09:30-09:45am | Beyond tRNA cleavage: Novel essential function for yeast tRNA splicing endonuclease Nripesh Dhungel, Anita K. Hopper Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University |
09:45-10:00am | Non-canonical biogenesis of the catalytic RNA subunit of Drosophila RNase P- a tRNA processing enzyme Sathiyanarayanan Manivannan, Lien B. Lai, Venkat Gopalan, Amanda A. Simcox Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University |
10:00-10:30am | Coffee Break (checkout before noon) |
Session V: Pre-mRNA splicing and miRNA-mediated gene regulation | |
10:30-10:45am | A dominant role for polyadenylation in forkhead transcription factor-mediated regulation of a meiotic cyclin gene Kristine D. Potter, Nicole G. Cremona, Jo Ann Wise Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University |
10:45-11:00am | Son Maintains Accurate Splicing for a Subset of Human Pre-mRNAs. Alok Sharma, Michael Markey, Madhavi Kadakia , Keshia Torres-Munoz, Sapna Shah Varia, Athanasios Bubulya, Paula Bubulya Biological Sciences, Wright State University |
11:00-11:15am | Title not published online - please see printed booklet Melissa Hinman, Victoria Barron, David Friel, Guangbin Luo, Hua Lou Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University |
11:15-11:30am | Mechanism of splicing of large introns in human cells in vivo Jarnail Singh , Richard A Padgett Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 44195 |
11:30-11:45am | Nuclear-retained lncRNA regulates pre-mRNA splicing and is required for cell cycle progression. Vidisha Tripathi, Xinying Zong, Zhen Shen, Supriya G. Prasanth, Kannanganattu V. Prasanth Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology, UIUC |
11:45-12:00pm | Small RNAs, Big Impact: Probing microRNA Activity inside Human Cells Using Single Molecule Microscopy Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya, John R. Androsavich, Nils G. Walter Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 |
12:00-12:20pm | Human MDM4 is post-transcriptionally regulated by hsa-miR34a Pooja Mandke, Nicholas Wyatt, Steven Berberich, Michael Markey Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University |
12:20-12:40pm | The DEAD-box Protein Dbp2 Connects Cryptic Unstable Transcripts to Transcriptional Repression of Overlapping Genes Sara C. Ess, Luyen T. Nguyen, Wai Kit Ma, Elizabeth J. Tran Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University |
12:40-01:00pm | Awards and Closing Remarks |