Poster Abstracts

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Number	Presenter	Title	PI
150	Rene Arvola	Unique repression domains in Pumilio accelerate destruction of target mRNAs	Aaron Goldstrohm
42	Claire Smathers	Exploring splicing and retrotransposition in a mobile group IIC intron	Aaron Robart
28	Sydney Rosenblum	Detecting miRNA-miRBP interactions with a cell-based split-enzyme assay	Amanda Garner
10	Jose Victorino	Title not published online	Amber Mosley
123	Taylor Ayers	Structural Determination of the Interaction Between Two Critical RNA-Binding Proteins	Andrea Berman
73	McKenzie Murvin	Methylation of Ded1 affects its role in translation	Angie Hilliker
14	Kunal Chatterjee	Biological significance of multiple, parallel primary tRNA nuclear export pathways in budding yeast	Anita Hopper
130	Lauren Peltier	Title not published online	Anita Hopper
92	Mamta Kaura	Process Development for the Synthesis of Chemically Modified DNA Oligonucleotide	Arnie De Leon
2	Manohar Chakrabarti	A genome-wide alternative polyadenylation atlas of abiotic stress responses in sorghum	Arthur Hunt
49	Emily Ranseen	Gene expression and alternative polyadenylation in an Arabidopsis sr45 mutant	Arthur Hunt
9	Sushant Bangru	Alternative splicing rewires Hippo signaling pathway in hepatocytes to promote liver regeneration	Auinash Kalsotra
45	Ullas Valiya Chembazhi	Function and regulation of alternative splicing to enhance tumor suppressor activity of Neurofibromin 2	Auinash Kalsotra
90	Joe Seimetz	Poly(A) Binding Proteins Tune Translation in the Heart	Auinash Kalsotra
91	Miranda Gurra	Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) is a key regulator of hepatocyte responses to toxin induced injury	Auinash Kalsotra
86	Feikai Lin	Overexpression of a non-muscle RBFOX2 splice isoform induce cardiac arrhythmias in Myotonic Dystrophy	Auinash Kalsotra
52	Waqar Arif	High - resolution and cell - type specific polysome profiling from mouse tissues	Auinash Kalsotra
135	Mariana Bonafim Piveta	The effects of Ultraviolet radiation on Ribosomal RNA and its post-transcriptional modifications	Balasubrahmanyam Addepalli
120	Rui Gan	STARzyme: a ribozyme with tRNA synthetase activity	Barbara Golden
144	Amit Gaurav	Trypanosoma brucei TTAGGG repeat binding factor interacts with TERRA independent to its DNA binding activity.	Bibo Li
148	Arpita Saha	Understanding the role of telomeric long non-coding RNA, TERRA, in Trypanosoma brucei	Bibo Li
82	Liang-Yuan Chiu	NMR studies of conformational selection of hnRNP H on RNA recognition and its interaction with the HIV exonic splicing silencer ESS2P RNA	Blanton Tolbert
117	Alisa King	sRNA-target Prediction Organizing Tool (SPOT) integrates computational and experimental data to facilitate functional characterization of bacterial small RNAs	Carin Vanderpool
100	Bett Kimutai	Reaction kinetics, nucleoside preference, and impact of amino-acid-linked platinum analogues on RNA and DNA	Christine Chow
70	Prabuddha Madubashitha	Mass spectrometry-based mapping of RNA-binding molecules	Christine Chow
23	Rabiul Islam	Title not published online	Christine Chow
141	Evan Jones	Theoretical pKa Calculations of Modified Nucleobases using Explicit Waters and a Polarizable Continuum Model	Christine Chow
4	Daniel del Valle-Morales	A new approach to identifying cytoplasmic capping targets in cells and tissues	Daniel Schoenberg
11	Jian Wu	An RNA element in PSTVd determines intercellular movement from epidermal to mesophyll cells	David M. Bisaro
118	Matias Montes	SRSF2: A Splicing Factor that Positively Regulates the Alternative Splicing of MDM2	Dawn Chandler
19	Andrew Goodwin	Title not published online	Dawn Chandler
76	Safiya Khurshid	Title not published online	Dawn Chandler
16	Shiqin Miao	bPNA probes of RNA tertiary interactions	Dennis Bong
25	Leah Zagore	Dazl regulates germ cell survival through a network of polyA-proximal mRNA interactions	Donny Licatalosi
61	Cydni Akesson	Investigating how DAZL regulates its RNA targets using BioID and immunostaining	Donny Licatalosi
63	Xinrui Zhang	Investigating the post-transcriptional regulatory roles of HuR and SF2 in interleukin-17 mediated inflammation	Donny Licatalosi
66	Ethan Pickerill	Investigation of pseudouridine synthase 7 function in pathogenic yeast candida albicans	Douglas Bernstein
62	Jazmin Marks-Burns	Investigating the effects of PUS5 deletion on mitochondrial encoded protein expression in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Douglas Bernstein
35	Scott Hinger	Diverse long-RNAs are differentially sorted into extracellular vesicles secreted by colorectal cancer cells	Dr. James G. Patton
140	Christine Lee	The translational landscape of glioblastoma stem cells	Eckhard Jankowsky
99	Xuan Ye	Rbfox1: extraordinary RNA binding specificity by optimized discrimination against non-cognate sequences	Eckhard Jankowsky
84	Kaba Tandjigora	Optimization of a fluorescence-based assay for high throughput screening of small molecule inhibitors of the DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX3X	Eckhard Jankowsky
48	Armend Axhemi	Functional synergy between Rrp6p and Rrp44p in the nuclear exosome	Eckhard Jankowsky
13	Sukanya Srinivasan	Auxiliary domains of the mammalian DEAH/RHA helicase DHX36 work in concert with the helicase core domains to remodel RNA structures.	Eckhard Jankowsky
72	Brittany Stawicki	Metabolic labeling of RNA in synchronized S. cerevisiae daughter cells	Eckhard Jankowsky
59	Sarah Venus	Interactions with Vaccinia Virus K7 Protein Alter the Biochemical Activity of the DEAD-Box RNA Helicase DDX3X	Eckhard Jankowsky
133	Frank Tedeschi	The DEAD-box protein Dbp2p is linked to non-coding RNAs, the helicase Sen1p, and R-loops	Eckhard Jankowsky
87	Dessalegn Nemera	PEGylated Oligonucleotide Synthesis – From Research Scale to Production Scale	Eduardo Paredes
129	Daniel Tener	Synthesis of single guide RNAs for CRISPR/Cas	Eduardo Paredes
128	Michael Brennan	Synthesis of higher order oligonucleotides for therapeutic investigations	Eduardo Paredes
32	Nathan McCann	Title not published online	Emil Khisamutdinov
127	Jake Durbin	Structure and Composition Define Immunorecognition of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles.	Emil Khisamutdinov
109	Asmita Bhattarai	Role of hsa- miR-149-5p in Steroid Biosynthesis pathway	Girish Shukla
12	Eviania Likos	Title not published online	Girish Shukla
94	Pooja Gangras	Proximal 3'UTR introns elicit EJC-dependent NMD during zebrafish development.	Guramrit Singh
38	Lauren Woodward	EJC protein composition and position on mRNAs are influenced by translation	Guramrit Singh
6	Zhongxia Yi	A specific Exon Junction Complex composition may support UPF3B-independent nonsense-mediated mRNA decay	Guramrit Singh
77	Reshma Raghava Kurup	Molecular function of ADAR3 in neuronal activity	Heather Hundley
78	Suba Rajendren	Molecular Mechanisms to Regulate the Substrate Recognition of an A-to-I RNA Editing Enzyme	Heather Hundley
7	Pranathi Vadlamani	ADAR3 Inhibits RNA Editing and Promotes Differential Gene Expression in Glioblastoma	Heather Hundley
147	Justin Peterson	Understanding the dsRBD mediated ADR-1 and ADR-2 interaction	Heather Hundley
102	Justin Mabin	Regulation of alternative splicing by U5 small nuclear RNA variants	Heidi Dvinge
74	Christina Chung	MicroRNA stability is regulated by oncogenic protein kinase Akt1	Ilka Heinemann
154	Megan Arnold	Using Limited Proteolysis to Understand Structural Changes of DEAD-box protein Rok1p	Ivelitza Garcia
143	Lisa Yoder	Thermodynamic Analysis of the Rate of ATP Dissociation in a Truncated Variant of the DEAD-Box Protein Rok1p	Ivelitza Garcia
30	Nathan Howell	Determinants of substrate specificity for the Trm10 family of tRNA modification enzymes	Jane Jackman
149	Ben Jepson	Understanding the substrate specificity and biological functions of cytoplasmic tRNA methyltransferase (Trm10) enzymes	Jane Jackman
101	Tracy Roach	Recognition of RNA substrates by Thg1 family proteins	Jane Jackman
69	Natalie Deans	Maize RMR12 is a CHD3 nucleosome remodeler required for maintaining paramutations and normal development	Jay Hollick
107	Ali Aldhumani	RNA drug discovery: optimizing chemoinformatic analysis workflow	Jennifer Hines
119	Charlotte Kunkler	Title not published online	Jessica Brown
125	Agnieszka Ruszkowska	Structural insights into the RNA methyltransferase domain of METTL16	Jessica Brown
121	Phillip McCown	Title not published online	Jessica Brown
22	Yizhu Lin	Codon usage and position alter the functions of upstream open reading frames	Joel McManus
51	Salini Konikkat	Genome-wide RNA 3’-end Mapping identifies riboregulators and reveals the effects azithromycin on transcription in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Joel McManus
68	Murat C. Kalem	lncRNA Regulation by Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5, Rmt5.	John C. Panepinto
132	Stephanie Biedka	The DEAD-box helicase Drs1 remodels nucleolar pre-60S subunits prior to C2 cleavage	John Woolford
136	Amber LaPeruta	The GTPase activity of the ribosome assembly factor Nog1 is required for its release from the large ribosomal subunit	John Woolford
131	Aiswarya Krishnamohan	The conserved debranching enzyme, Dbr1, also decaps RNA in vitro	Jonathan Staley
85	Gabriel Silveira dAlmeida	Overcoming a “molecular ruler” mechanism: the unusual heterotrimeric tRNA splicing endonuclease of Trypanosoma brucei	Juan Alfonzo
146	Luyi Cheng	Uncovering the Role of Cotranscriptional Folding in Riboswitches	Julius Lucks
41	Angela Yu	Estimating RNA structure chemical probing reactivities from reverse transcriptase stops and mutations	Julius Lucks
18	Shuohui Liu	Characterization of interactions between HIV-1 integrase, nucleocapsid and genomic RNA using AFM and SHAPE	Karin Musier-Forsyth
46	Arundhati Mohanta	Functional Definition of Domain Structures and Distribution in RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme	Kausik Chakrabarti
124	Abhishek Dey	Structural Imprints of in vivo RNA Folding in human Parasites	Kausik Chakrabarti
50	Diana Renteria Alvarez	Title not published online	Kausik Chakrabarti
17	Kennedy Stoll	Characterization of a putative R2 retrotransposon and its HSV-like ribozyme in vertebrates	Kim Delaney
97	Daniel Dayeh	Quadruplex-mediated affinity purification of DNA-induced slicing complex	Kotaro Nakanishi
105	Mi Seul Park	RISC assembly of Argonaute correlated with the formation of internal water clusters	Kotaro Nakanishi
27	Tyler Smith	Decoupling the roles of peptide and mRNA in ribosome pausing during the translation of positively charged peptide sequences	Kristin Koutmou
79	Kristin Koutmou	mRNA modifications alter translation elongation and fidelity	Kristin Koutmou
71	Menglin Chen	Measures of ‘single’- versus multiple- round translation argue against a mechanism to ensure coupling of transcription and translation	Kurt Fredrick
110	Michelle Gibbs	Role of the conserved GTPase BipA in assembly of the 50S subunit of the ribosome	Kurt Fredrick
37	Brianna Tylec	Editing of Minimally Edited RNA CYb in Trypanosoma brucei	Laurie Read
145	Kyle Smith	Trypanosoma brucei ZFP3 is a RNA binding protein that regulates the transcriptome and is a substrate for numerous protein arginine methyltransferases	Laurie Read
113	Xiao Ma	Selectivity and editing mechanisms of an aminoacyl-tRNA trans-editing factor	Mark Foster
80	Pepsi Holmquist	Native Mass Spectrometry of Ligand-Mediated Activation of RNA binding by TRAP	Mark Foster
26	Meredith Purchal	Deciphering mRNA Pseudouridylation in Eukaryotes	Markos Koutmos
55	Maggie Thomas	Identification of the enzyme responsible for the acp3U modification in bacteria	Michael Guy
155	Jamison Burchett	Using RNA interference to identify the acp3U tRNA modification enzyme in higher eukaryotes	Michael Guy
31	Hannah Sizemore	Determining the role of tRNA modifications on pseudohyphal growth in yeast	Michael Guy
103	Rebecca Steiner	Regulation of translational fidelity in Salmonella Typhimurium	Michael Ibba
116	Sun Jeong Im	SPR-SELEX: New Method to Determine DNA Aptamers that Targets E.coli for Biosensor	Mina Sumita
54	Nicolette Geron	Identification of DNA aptamer with modified nucleotide	Mina Sumita
106	Kritisha Bhandari	RNA Aptamer Development for Biosensor by SPR-SELEX	Mina Sumita
21	Andrew Riley	Cloning and Overexpression of Pseduouridine Monophosphate Synthase from Escherichia Coli	Mina Sumita
93	Anna Nielander	Process validation approach for oligonucleotides	NA
126	Arnab Ghosh	Structural Integrity Of rRNA Central Junction Is Essential For Ribosome Function	Natalia Shcherbik
44	Neocles Leontis	Folding Complex RNA with Fewer Gs: Comparison of Composition and Distribution of Nucleotides in ribosomal RNA from Avian and Mammalian mitochondria.	Neocles Leontis
29	Manasses Jora	Detection of ribonucleoside modifications by liquid chromatography higher-energy collisional dissociation mass spectrometry (LC-HCD-MS) and spectral matching	Pat Limbach
153	Christina Psihountas	Using LC-MS/MS to detect tRNA modification profile differences in Bacillus subtilis	Pat Limbach
81	Jeremy Lant	Natural tRNA variation and visualizing mistranslation in human cells.	Patrick ODonoghue
36	Courtney Szyjka	DksA-like factor YteA enhances transcription attenuation of the trp operon in Bacillus subtilis	Paul Gollnick
20	Pearlly Yan	CLEAR: Coverage-based Limiting-cell Experiment Analysis for RNA-seq	Pearlly Yan
138	Fatimah Matalkah	The Musashi 1/2 proteins are required for photoreceptor maintenance and development	Peter Stoilov
15	Shannon Wright	Blocking RAN translation enhances FMRP expression and reduces toxicity in Fragile X stem cells.	Peter Todd
5	Udit Sheth	A screen for chemical inhibitors of repeat associated non-AUG (RAN) translation	Peter Todd
83	Qinyu Hao	Nucleolus-enriched repeat-containing noncoding RNA regulates rDNA transcription.	Prasanth Kannanganattu
65	Yow Yong Tan	Investigating the role of the bulge and pentaloop for htrA RNA thermometer melting behavior	Rachel Mitton-Fry
114	Madeline Su	SHAPE analysis of wild type and mutant htrA RNA thermometer in Salmonella enterica	Rachel Mitton-Fry
134	Elan Shatoff	Title not published online	Ralf Bundschuh
104	Robert Patton	RIPiT-Seq analysis suggests a compositional switch between structurally and functionally distinct exon junction complexes	Ralf Bundschuh
137	Devlin Moyer	The Intron Annotation and Orthology Database (IAOD)	Richard Padgett
34	Elizabeth DeLaney	Disruption of Minor Intron Splicing in Inherited Developmental Disorders	Richard Padgett
64	Noah Daniels	Investigating the Role of DDX41 in pre-messenger RNA Splicing and Leukemogenesis	Richard Padgett
75	Jagjit Singh	Modeling the effects of U4atac snRNA mutations using human iPS cell-derived brain organoids	Richard Padgett
112	Keshav Gc	RsmC shows RNA annealing activity during ribosome biogenesis	Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
33	Whitney Bergman	Title not published online	Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
95	Kumudie Jayalath	Pseudouridylation enzyme RsuA influence 30S ribosome assembly	Sanjaya Abeysirigunawardena
111	Clara Smoniewski	Roles of multiple polymerases in trypanosome mitochondrial non-encoded mRNA tail addition	Sara Zimmer
88	Ansuman Sahoo	Phosphorylation is yeast eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A drives stress-induced changes in growth	Sarah Walker
115	Rajneesh Srivastava	SliceIt: RNA-Binding Protein (RBP) centric genome-wide in silico library of sgRNAs for CRISPR/Cas9 screens	Sarath Janga
40	Sasank Vemuri	Title not published online	Sarath Janga
39	Patrick Stevens	Title not published online	Sarath Janga
8	Deepak Kumar Lakshmipathi	Alternative splicing profile comparison of differentiating T-helper cells to dissect the splicing signatures of Th1, Th2, Th17 and Treg cells	Sarath Janga
98	Aniruddhan Govindaraman	R(A)PTOR - A tool for systematic identification of Poly(A) tails and 3’ unmapped regions from single molecule direct RNA-sequencing datasets	Sarath Janga
47	Felipe Porto	Functional dissection and comparative analysis of alternative splicing events from lncRNA perturbation screens across human cell types	Sarath Janga
89	Kiel Tietz	Pnrc2 regulates 3'UTR-mediated decay of cyclic transcripts during somitogenesis	Sharon Amacher
56	Jinghan Zhao	Identify Rbfox-regulated transcripts important for muscle function	Sharon Amacher
24	Adam Richardson	Coordination of G4R1, RNAPII, and AGO proteins to regulate the transcription of developmental genes and proto-oncogenes	Smaldino Philip
139	Alan Kessler	Title not published online	Stephen Kolb
60	Chad Ratterman	Investigating active site mutants of lariat debranching enzyme with backbone branched RNA	Subha R. Das
58	Megan Van Horn	Inhibition of lariat debranching enzyme with click-branched RNA: effects of the 2'-branch and the branch-point residue	Subha R. Das
142	Frances Moore	Thermal stability analyses of RNA duplexes with 2'-branches	Subha R. Das
108	Takahisa Nakamura	Role of hepatic RNA silencing in the pathogenesis of obesity	Takahisa Nakamura
57	Alex Runyon	Importance of conserved elements in the Bacillus subtilis thrS canonical T-box riboswitch	Tina Henkin
53	Divyaa Bhagdikar	Title not published online	Tina Henkin
1	Yehong Qiu	A cancer-associated mutation in a human mitochondrial tRNA induces structural rearrangement	Venkat Gopalan
43	Ila Marathe	Fluorescence turn-on upon annealing of cyanine dye-labeled bPNAs to uridine-tract-containing RNAs	Venkat Gopalan
152	Hong Duc Phan	Use of chemical modification and tandem mass spectrometry to identify RNA-protein contact sites in archaeal RNase P	Venkat Gopalan
67	Stella Lai	L7Ae enhances the cleavage rate of archaeal RNase P	Venkat Gopalan
3	Edric Choi	A high-throughput, fluorescence turn-on assay to measure RNase P activity	Venkat Gopalan
122	Mengxuan Jia	Structural analysis of RNA in the gas phase using ion mobility coupled to native MS	Vicki Wysocki
96	Swetha Rajasekaran	Pumilio (PUM) proteins mediated post-transcriptional regulation	Wayne Miles
151	Samantha Sarni	Unlocking the mechanism of HIV-1 viral assembly nucleation with native mass spectrometry	Wysocki Vicki