Poster Abstracts

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Number	Presenter	Title	PI
1	Katie Adib	A phased-addition strategy enhances the yield of RNAs obtained by in vitro transcription with modified transcriptional initiators	Venkat Gopalan
2	Vivek Advani	Translational recoding in human disease: identifying the molecular pathologies underlying X-linked Dyskeratosis Congenita and Spinocerebellar Ataxia 26.	Dr. Jonathan Dinman
3	Mike Allen	Thinking outside the S-box: an investigation of an unusual S-box family member	Tina Henkin
4	Rene Arvola	Dissecting the Mechanisms of Pumilio Mediated Repression	Aaron Goldstrohm
5	Abhijit Badve	Evolutionary dynamics of RNA binding proteins expressions in mammalian species	Sarath Chandra Janga
6	Sumirtha Balaratnam	SHARP protein causes the remodeling of SRA1 lncRNA structure	Soumitra Basu
7	Erkan Bayir	Title not published online	Paula Grabowski
8	Thomas Bebee	A knockout mouse model to define the roles of the Epithelial splicing regulatory proteins in development and epithelial cell function	Russ Carstens
9	Divyaa Bhagdikar	Title not published online	Tina Henkin
10	Debmalya Bhattacharyya	Interaction between a G-quadruplex domain and 40s ribosomal subunit is critical for IRES A mediated translation initiation of hVEGF	Soumitra Basu
11	Jamie Bingaman	Title not published online	Philip Bevilacqua
12	Jennifer Bohn	Identification of mRNA Target of Human PUF Proteins	Aaron Goldstrohm
13	Rachel Boldt	The C-terminal domain of the vaccinia capping enzyme D12 subunit is important for its role in transcription termination	Paul Gollnick
14	Jagat Budhathoki	BLM Helicase does not require ATP to Unfold G-Quadruplex	Hamza Balci
15	Xiaoyu Cao	Discovery-based Ribonuclease (RNase) mapping with mass exclusion list locating tRNA modifications	Pat Limbach
16	Joel Caporoso	Structure determination and RNA-binding properties of SHARP	Thomas Leeper
17	Casey Cempre	SHAPE analysis of the rpoH thermosensor from Escherichia coli	Rachel Mitton-Fry
18	Manohar Chakrabarti	Exploring role of alternative polyadenylation during tall fescue-endophyte symbiosis under drought stress using genome wide approaches.	Arthur Hunt
19	Beau Champ	Using SHAPE chemistry to determine the structure of the ykkCD RNA riboswitch	Timea Gerczei
20	Praneet Chaturvedi	Uncovering the RNA binding protein machinery associated with age and gender during liver development	Sarath Chandra Janga
21	Cai Chen	A-to-I editing is cancer subtype specific	Ralf Bundschuh
22	Lin Chen	Characterization of theProRS/YbaK/tRNAPro ternary complex by analytical ultracentrifugation and native mass spectrometry	Karin Musier-Forsyth
23	Tien-Hao Chen	Mass spectrometry-aided identification of substrate contact sites in a proteinaceous RNase P, a tRNA processing enzyme	Venkat Gopalan
24	Ying Hsin Chen	The DEAD-box helicase Dhh1p monitors translational elongation rate to simulate mRNA decay	Jeff Coller
25	Eric Cockman	Elements in the 3’UTR of Selenoprotein S regulate Selenocysteine insertion	Donna Driscoll
26	Roopa Comandur	HIV-1 subtype-specific differences in tRNALys targeting to viral RNA primer binding site	Karin Musier-Forsyth
27	Daniel Comiskey	Title not published online	Dawn Chandler
28	Caroline Conley	Mapping of Structural Changes to the ykkCD Antibiotic Sensor RNA Caused by Tetracycline Binding	Timea Gerczei
29	Ryan Coram	Muscleblind-like 1 regulates alternative splicing and transforming growth factor beta signaling during heart valve development	Andrea Ladd
30	Christine Cucinotta	The nucleosome acidic patch is required for histone H2B lysine 123 monoubiquitylation and downstream transcription-coupled histone modifications	Karen Arndt
31	Eric Danhart	Mapping elements that confer specific acceptor stem recognition of Ala-tRNAPro by a bacterial trans-editing domain	Mark Foster
32	Laura de Lorenzo Barrios	Genome-wide analysis of stability & translatability in CAP-associated RNAs in Arabidopsis	Arthur Hunt
33	Brett DeMarco	Regulation of the 3' UTR in BDNF mRNA from the DNA level	Mihailescu Rita
34	Sourav Kumar Dey	Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies on Conformation of Backbone Branched RNA	Subha R. Das
35	Maria Dixon	AFP anti-sense transcripts in mouse liver and their potential role in gene regulation	Martha Peterson
36	Catey Dominguez	Title not published online	Dawn Chandler
37	Alice Duchon	Examination of human lysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNAlys primer recruitment and packaging into HIV	Karin Musier-Forsyth
38	Lauren Duff	Substrate recognition by the tRNAHis-guanylyltransferase: a kinetic investigation with model RNA substrates	Jane Jackman
39	Jey Sabith Ebron	Regulation of Androgen Receptor expression through its 3’ UTR	Girish Shukla
40	Grace Ellis	Discovery of a new processive anti termination mechanism	Wade C. Winkler
41	Matthew Ellis	An Investigation into RNA Oxidation Using Radical Precursors	Bryant-Friedrich Amanda
42	Haley Englert	Thermodynamic analysis of DEAD-box proteins reveal a temperature-dependent change	Ivelitza Garcia
43	Amin Espah Borujeni	The Riboswitch Calculator: automated physics-based design of synthetic riboswitches from diverse RNA aptamers	Howard Salis
44	Ian Fleming	Title not published online	Juan Alfonzo
45	Shawn Foley	Global analysis of the RNA-protein interaction and RNA secondary structure landscapes of the Arabidopsis nucleus	Dr. Brian D. Gregory
46	Munira Fouz	Enhanced tools for manipulating and analyzing gene function in a sea star larval model to explore regenerative biology	Subha R. Das
47	Erica Frankel	Characterization of RNA and Magnesium Ion Partitioning in Polyamine-Nucleotide Coacervates	Philip Bevilacqua
48	Janelle Gabriel	DICER-Like 3 is required for 24nt small RNA biogenesis and paramutation in Zea mays	Jay Hollick
49	Zhaofeng Gao	The DEAD-box RNA helicases Ded1p and eIF4A function simultaneously on the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F	Eckhard Jankowsky
50	Spencer Gardner	Identifying potential substrates of the reverse polymerase, BtTLP, by developing a variation on RNA-Seq	Jane Jackman
51	Margo Gebbie	A Riboswitch-Containing sRNA Controls Gene Expression by Sequestration of a Response Regulator	Wade C. Winkler
162	Marissa Gentle	Running out of rice?: Effects of Environmental Stresses on Gene Expression in Rice	Philip Bevilacqua
52	Jacob Gordon	Prototyping a novel cheap electroelution device assembled from readily available materials	Subha R. Das
53	Gregory Harrison	Defining the role of MRB10130 in uridine insertion and deletion RNA Editing in trypanosomes	Laurie Read
54	James Hemphill	DNA computation in mammalian cells: microRNA logic operations	Alexander Deiters
55	Ryan Hindman	Nucleoside Triphosphate Phosphohydrolase I (NPH I) in vaccinia early gene transcription termination.	Paul Gollnick
56	James Hiznay	The roles of DDX41 in the spliceosome and myeloid neoplasms	Richard Padgett
57	Whitney Houser	Enzymatic generation of 3’-phosphate from 2’,3’-cyclic phosphate endonuclease digestion products of recombinant RNase U2 for improved LC/MS analysis of RNAs	Pat Limbach
58	Jillian Houtz	Identifying mitochondrial DNA-associated trans-acting factors required for mtRNA editing in Physarum polycephalum	Jonatha Gott
59	Bradley Howard	Prolyl-tRNA synthetase–like editing domains: Exploring cellular functions in E. coli.	Karin Musier-Forsyth
60	Michael Howard	Molecular Recognition and Mechanistic Insights into Protein-only RNase P	Carol Fierke
61	Elihu Ihms	Structure and Assembly Dynamics of the TRAP-Anti-TRAP Regulatory System	Mark Foster
62	Aishwarya Jacob	Regulation of MDM2 alternative splicing: balance of positive and negative interactions between cis elements and trans factors.	Dawn Chandler
63	Daniel Jasinski	RNA as a boiling-resistant anionic polymer material to build robust polygons with tunable angle, size, stoichiometry and functionality	Peixuan Guo
64	Raul Jobava	Novel functions of cytochrome C in the cellular response to stress	Maria Hatzoglou
65	Evan Jones	Title not published online	Timea Gerczei
66	Lucie Kafkova	The effect of arginine methylation on MRB1 core component function in trypanosome	Laurie Read
67	Alan Kessler	Title not published online	Juan Alfonzo
68	Prakash Kharel	Title not published online	Soumitra Basu
69	Brad Klemm	Active Site Architecture and Substrate Binding Interactions in an Arabidopsis thaliana Proteinaceous Rnase P	Carol Fierke
70	Salini Konikkat	Distinct functions of the discrete regions of the multifunctional ribosome assembly protein Erb1 in yeast 60S subunit biogenesis	John Woolford
71	Karen Kormuth	Effects of guanine quadruplex mutagenesis on yeast ribosome biosynthesis	Woolford John Armitage Bruce
72	Andrey Krasilnikov	Interactions between RNA components of eukaryotic RNases P/MRP RNPs and Pop1, the largest RNase P/MRP protein	Krasilnikov Andrey
73	Aiswarya Krishnamohan	Studying the catalytic mechanism of the m1G9/m1A9 methyltransferase (Trm10) family enzymes	Jane Jackman
74	Roni Lahr	Title not published online	Andrea Berman
152	Dr. Janette Lamb	Genomics Research Core: Gene Expression Service Projects	Janette Lamb
75	Kathleen Leamy	Insights Into the Folding of RNA Under In vivo-Like Conditions	Philip Bevilacqua
76	Thomas Leeper	Delineation of lncRNA recognition sites by NMR: SHARP RRM binding to SRA1 STR7.	Thomas Leeper
77	Jeff Levengood	Towards Developing a Structure Based Mechanism of Splicing Repression by hnRNP A1 at ssA7 on HIV-1	Blanton Tolbert
78	Yi-Hsuan Lin	Structure-mediated cooperativity between single-stranded RNA binding partners on 5' and 3'UTRs	Ralf Bundschuh
79	Jia Liu	Cofactor Modulation of T box Riboswitch Recognition: Effects of Mg2+ and Spermidine on the T box Antiterminator RNA-tRNA Complex	Jennifer Hines
80	Qi Liu	Title not published online	Kurt Fredrick
81	Sarah Loerch	Role of the U2AF Homology Motif in Human Tat-SF1 as a Cofactor for HIV-1 Splicing	Dr. Clara Kielkopf
82	Yicheng Long	Multiple functions of a family of 3’-to-5’ polymerases in Dictyostelium discoideum	Jane Jackman
83	Raphael Lopes	Unravelling the Trl1–like enzyme function in Trypanosoma brucei	Carla Polycarpo
84	A. Javier Lopez	Aging-and Oxidative Stress-Related Alternative Splicing in Drosophila melanogaster	A. Javier Lopez
85	Le Luo	Mechanistic Insights into HIV-1 Tat Dependent Release of P-TEFb from the 7SK snRNP Complex	Blanton Tolbert
86	Stephanie Mack	Approaches to Synthetic Mini-lariats for RNA Interference	Subha R. Das
87	Deborah Makin	Aging-and Oxidative Stress-Related Alternative Splicing in Drosophila melanogaster	A. Javier Lopez
88	Tereena Marks	Effects of Electroporation on Transcription and Editing in Isolated Physarum Mitochondria	Jonatha Gott
89	Sophie Martin	Codon optimality, translation elongation and the regulation of mRNA stability	Jeff Coller
90	Natalie McAdams	RNA trafficking during trypanosome RNA editing	Laurie Read
91	Damian McAninch	Investigation of the role played by the RNA G-quadruplex structure in ALS/FTD pathology	Mihailescu Mihaela Rita
92	Sarah Metcalfe	Title not published online	Xiao-Ning Zhang
160	Daniel Michalski	The C-termini of Symplekin, CPSF73 and CPSF100 interact in the pre-mRNA 3' end processing core cleavage factor	Dr. Mindy Steiniger
93	Michael Milligan	Global Intersection of Long Non-Coding RNA (lncRNA) Genes With Processed and Unprocessed Pseudogenes in The Human Genome	Leonard Lipovich
94	Christopher Morgan	Structural and mechanistic insights into hnRNP A1 - RNA recognition	Blanton Tolbert
95	Dan Murphy	Shaping of a Genetic Mutation Phenotype by Tissue Specific Alternative Splicing	Peter Stoilov
88	Greg Naegele	Effects of electroporation on transcription and editing in isolated physarum mitochondria	Jonatha Gott
96	Yaseswini Neelamraju	The human RBPome: from genes and proteins to human disease	Sarath Chandra Janga
97	Courtney Niland	Investigating Shared Molecular Recognition By RNA and Protein Subunits of RNase P Using High-Throughput Sequencing Kinetics (HTS-Kin)	Mike Harris
98	Alexis Onderak	The RNA helicase Skiv2l2 works to maintain pluripotency and proliferation in stem cells	Dr. James Anderson
99	Alexander Prokup	DNA Computation: Logic Gates and Amplification Cycles	Alexander Deiters
100	Andrei Rajkovic	Title not published online	Michael Ibba
101	Madhumitha Ramesh	Roles of Eukaryote-Specific rRNA Expansion Segments in Ribosome Biogenesis	John Woolford
102	Elizabeth Raupach	Analysis of ncDNA transcription for roles in regulating gene expression	Joseph Martens
104	Nathan Raynard	Title not published online	Aaron Goldstrohm
105	Laura Ritchey	Title not published online	Philip Bevilacqua
106	Robert Ross	Inductive Based Fluidics mass spectrometry for the analysis of modified nucleosides in RNAs	Pat Limbach
107	Bappaditya Roy	Title not published online	Kurt Fredrick
108	Dr. Nizar Saad	Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of asparagine and aspartate T box riboswitches in Clostridium acetobutylicum	Tina Henkin
109	Samantha Sanford	Erythrocytic stage specificity of Plasmodium falciparum telomerase	Kausik Chakrabarti
110	Krishnarjun Sarkar	Determining the kinetic contributions of tertiary interactions to the folding of the thermostable Azoarcus ribozyme using smFRET	Sarah Woodson
111	Dan Seith	Probing the role of guanine deprotonation in ribozyme mechanism	Philip Bevilacqua
112	Hyosuk Seo	Peptides targeting modified helix 69 of 23S rRNA in bacterial ribosomes	Christine Chow
113	Lucas Serdar	The use of tethered function analysis to investigate the role of Upf1 in targeting substrates to NMD	Kristian Baker
114	Ashwani Sharma	RNA nanoparticle for specific EpCAM targeting and cancer cell delivery	Peixuan Guo
115	Deepak Sharma	Biochemical characterization of the human DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX3X	Eckhard Jankowsky
116	Anya Sherwood	Title not published online	Tina Henkin
117	Rachel Simpson	Trypanosome RNA Editing Alignment Tool: Using deep sequencing to understand the roles of accessory factors in kinetoplastid RNA editing	Laurie Read
118	Savita Singh	Andro-miRs processing and regulation of Androgen receptor expression in PCa.	Girish Shukla
119	Mathilda Slaibi	Strategies for cloning 6.8 kb Androgen Receptor 3'UTR into pMIR report.	Girish Shukla
120	Jenna Smith	Translation of small open reading frames within unannotated RNA transcripts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Kristian Baker
121	Beulah Mae Ann Solivio	Mutagenesis of RNase U2 for Enhanced Specificity	Pat Limbach
122	Pieter Spealman	Ribosome occupancy of RNA cis-regulatory sequences, uORFs, implicated in the simultaneous regulation of gene expression across two levels.	Joel McManus
123	Kimberly Stanek	Structural and functional characterization of an Aquifex Hfq homolog	Cameron Mura
124	Matthew Starr	Investigating Oxidative Damage in RNA through Pseudouridinyl Radical Precursors	Dr. Amanda Bryant-Friedrich
125	Snezana Stefanovic	G quadruplex structures in PSD-95 mRNA as potential regulators of miR-125a seed binding site accessibility	Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu
126	Sarah Steimer	Identification of Escherichia coli mRNAs with 5’-terminal AUG triplets that act as both leaderless and Shine-Dalgarno led mRNAs.	Gary Janssen
127	Krishna Chaitanya Suddala	Title not published online	Nils Walter
128	Julie Sutton	Title not published online	Lois Pollack
129	Courtney Szyjka	Investigation of a novel role in transcriptional regulation of the trp operon by TRAP	Paul Gollnick
130	Yin Tang	Title not published online	Philip Bevilacqua
131	Supuni Thalalla Gamage	Electrostatics of rRNA Hairpins as Determined by Platination Kinetics	Christine Chow
132	Meryl Thomas	Title not published online	Alexander Deiters
133	Kiel Tietz	Rapid clearance of oscillating transcripts during somitogenesis requires the decay adapter Pnrc2	Sharon Amacher
134	Nathan Titkemeier	Determination of the Isoform and Post-translational Modification State of Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase Packaged into HIV-1 Particles by Mass Spectrometry	Karin Musier-Forsyth
135	Daniel Totten	hnRNP A1 RNA recognition motifs induce a conformational change upon binding 7SK RNA stem III	Andrea Berman
136	Jackson Trotman	Identification of cap methyltransferase as a component of the cytoplasmic capping complex	Daniel Schoenberg
137	Kelsey Ulanowicz	Structure probing of the htrA RNA thermometer from Salmonella enterica	Rachel Mitton-Fry
138	Aparna Venkataraman	Bioinformatics analysis of human mRNA coding sequences to identify putative G-quadruplex forming sequences	Soumitra Basu
139	Sarah Venus	Purification and characterization of cytidine-specific ribonuclease, Cusativin, for mapping nucleoside modifications in RNA	Balasubrahmanyam Addepalli
140	Mario Vieweger	Structure, Conformations, and Thermodynamics of the Three-way Junction (3WJ) of Phi29 pRNA	Peixuan Guo
141	Hao Wang	Translation rate evaluation with ribosome profiling data	Joel McManus
142	Jiarui Wang	Probing the effect of different ligands on the conformational dynamics of a transcriptionally acting preQ1 riboswitch using single molecule FRET microscopy	Nils Walter
143	Chase Weidmann	An interaction with Nanos enhances repression by Pumilio and broadens mRNA target specificity	Aaron Goldstrohm
144	Julia Widom	Dissecting the functions of RNA helicases in splicing by single-molecule FRET	Nils Walter
145	Michael Widom	mRNA-mediated cooperativity between microRNA target sites	Michael Widom
146	Russell Williams	Title not published online	Eugene Mueller
147	Rebecca Williams-Wagner	Title not published online	Tina Henkin
148	Wade Winkler	Structure and mechanism of a riboswitch that selectively responds to transition metals	Wade C. Winkler
149	Michael Wolfe	The significance of quaternary structure for catalysis by the Human Thg1 enzyme	Jane Jackman
150	Eileen Workman	Title not published online	Daniel Battle
151	Nancy Wu	The identification of inhibitors against Ribonuclease P to probe tRNA processing in vivo	Carol Fierke
161	Weixin Wu	Elucidation of the protein-RNA interactions that dictate human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 viral genomic RNA packaging	Karin Musier-Forsyth
153	Alexander Yakhnin	NusG is a sequence-specific RNA polymerase pause factor	Babitzke Paul
154	Kevin Yang	The Molecular Etiology of PRP Mutations in Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosis (RP) Mutations	Jonathan Staley
155	Yueqin Yang	Title not published online	Russ Carstens
156	Xuan Ye	Characterization of 3’ to 5’ exonuclease activity of Pop2p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Eckhard Jankowsky
157	Chunxi Zeng	Molecular modulation of T box riboswitch function	Jennifer Hines
158	Jing Zhao	Title not published online	Mike Harris
159	Hongkun Zhu	Functional characterization of derivatives of the aminoglycoside tobramycin	Kurt Fredrick