Talk abstracts
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| Time | Presenter | Title | PI |
| Saturday 09:54-10:06am | Katherine Anderson |
Title not published online | Juan Alfonzo |
| Friday 04:30-04:42pm | Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage |
Title not published online | Soumitra Basu |
| Saturday 09:30-09:42am | Krishna Patel |
Base pair recognition by the Thg1 family 3'-5' polymerases | Jane Jackman |
| Saturday 09:42-09:54am | Daniel L Kiss |
Cap homeostasis is independent of poly(A) tail length | Daniel Schoenberg |
| Friday 01:12-01:24pm | Yotam Blech-Hermoni |
CELF1 is necessary for myofibril organization and cardiac morphology during embryonic development | Andrea Ladd |
| Friday 02:24-02:36pm | Vladimir Presnyak |
Codon optimization is a major determinant of mRNA half-life in Saccharomyces cerevisia | Jeff Coller |
| Saturday 02:48-03:00pm | Ceyda Jada Coruh |
Comprehensive annotation of Physcomitrella patens small RNA loci reveals 23nt heterochromatic siRNAs dependent on a minimal Dicer-Like gene | Michael J Axtell |
| Friday 02:00-02:12pm | Sandy Tretbar |
Conformational control of the U2 snRNA by Cus2p | Aaron Hoskins |
| Friday 04:42-04:54pm | Laurie Heinicke |
Dissecting miRNA function and localization using single molecule approaches | Nils Walter |
| Friday 04:18-04:30pm | Kaylen Lott |
DRBD18 is an essential Trypanosome RNA binding protein that modulates RNA abundance and is regulated by arginine methylation | Laurie Read |
| Saturday 09:18-09:30am | Sara Elgamal |
EF-P Dependent Pauses Integrate Proximal and Distal Signals during Translation | Michael Ibba |
| Friday 04:06-04:18pm | Daniel Binzel |
Entropy As a Key Factor for One Step Formation of Phi29 pRNA 3WJ from Three RNA Fragments | Peixuan Guo |
| Saturday 08:54-09:06am | Beril Kumcuoglu |
Eukaryote-specific extensions of ribosomal proteins are involved in 60S ribosomal subunit assembly | John Woolford |
| Saturday 02:36-02:48pm | Matthew R. Willmann |
Global analysis of RNA-protein interaction site and RNA secondary structure dynamics in response to the plant hormone abscisic acid | Brian D. Gregory |
| Saturday 02:00-02:12pm | Roderico Acevedo |
Helical Defects in MicroRNA Influence Protein Binding by TAR RNA Binding Protein | Showalter Scott A. |
| Saturday 03:00-03:12pm | Yizhu Lin |
High-throughput probing of human lncRNA secondary structure by Mod-seq | Joel McManus |
| Saturday 02:12-02:24pm | Debjani Guha |
HIV-1 alters host cellular gene expression in target cell specific manner through microRNA regulation | Velpandi Ayyavoo |
| Friday 01:36-01:48pm | DaJuan Whiteside |
Mechanistic insight into the association of the NMD factor, Upf1p, with mRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Kristian Baker |
| Friday 05:06-05:18pm | Patrick Ochieng |
Multiple Conformational Sampling Achieved By Alternate Base-Pairing in Loop A of the Hairpin Ribozyme | Charles Hoogstraten |
| Friday 03:54-04:06pm | Hsuan-Chun Lin |
Next-generation tools for RNA enzymology: Determination of rate and equilibrium constants for large populations of RNA substrate variants using high throughput sequencing. | Mike Harris |
| Friday 04:54-05:06pm | Raul Jobava |
Novel functions of cytochrome C in the cellular response to stress | Maria Hatzoglou |
| Friday 02:48-03:00pm | Marina Falaleeva |
Numerous C/D box snoRNAs are associated with the spliceosome, form non-canonical ribonuclear protein complexes and regulate alternative splicing | Stefan Stamm |
| Friday 02:36-02:48pm | Smarajit Mondal |
NusA-dependent transcription termination in bacteria | Babitzke Paul |
| Friday 02:12-02:24pm | Jake A. Kloeber |
Phosphorylation regulates assembly of cancer-relevant splicing factors SF3b155 and SPF45 | Dr. Clara Kielkopf |
| Friday 03:42-03:54pm | Niyati Jain |
Phylogenetic, Structure and thermodynamic insight of HIV-1 Intronic splicing silencer (ISS) | Blanton Tolbert |
| Friday 01:24-01:36pm | Thomas Gallagher |
Pnrc2 is required for rapid decay of oscillating transcripts via their 3’ UTR | Sharon Amacher |
| Saturday 10:18-10:30am | Heather Beck |
Potential for novel regulation via AUG triplets at the 5’ termini of canonical leadered mRNAs of Escherichia coli | Gary Janssen |
| Friday 03:30-03:42pm | Chelsea Hull |
Regulation of the RNA-Activated Protein Kinase (PKR) by Highly Structured Direct and Indirect Bacterial Riboswitches | Philip Bevilacqua |
| Saturday 09:06-09:06am | Jonathan Dinman |
Ribosomal frameshifting in the CCR5 mRNA is regulated by miRNAs and NMD. | Jonathan Dinman |
| Saturday 08:30-08:42am | Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena |
Ribosomal proteins influence RNA dynamics during 30S assembly | Woodson Sarah |
| Saturday 10:06-10:18am | Heather Feaga |
Ribosome release from non-stop mRNAs is essential | Kenneth Keiler |
| Friday 01:00-01:12pm | Armend Axhemi |
Selectivity in substrate binding by the exonuclease Rrp6p | Eckhard Jankowsky |
| Friday 01:48-02:00pm | Jagjit Singh |
Significance of novel RNA-protein interaction in U12-dependent splicing | Girish Shukla |
| Saturday 02:24-02:36pm | Priscilla Wong |
Title not published online | Kausik Chakrabarti |
| Saturday 08:42-08:54am | Rohan Balakrishnan |
Title not published online | Kurt Fredrick |
| Saturday 03:15-03:35pm | Andrea Berman |
The LARP1-motif contains structurally conserved but sequence diverged repeats | Andrea Berman |
| Saturday 03:35-03:55pm | Sarath Chandra Janga |
Uncovering the RNA binding protein machinery associated with age and gender during liver development | Sarath Chandra Janga |
| Friday 05:18-05:30pm | Benjamin Cieply |
Using Protein mRNA tethering to identify novel splicing factors | Russ Carstens |