Agenda
Friday, Oct 23
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:30-12:00pm | Bioinformatics Workshop |
| 12:00-12:30pm | Conference site open to login |
| 12:30-01:00pm | Welcome and introductory remarks |
Session I: Plenary 1. Phase Separation and RNA Binding Proteins | |
| 01:00-01:15pm | Human Argonaute2 and Argonaute3 are catalytically activated by different lengths of guide RNA GeunYoung Sim, Mi Seul Park, Audrey C. Kehling, Kotaro Nakanishi Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University |
| 01:15-01:30pm | Protein Arginine Methylation Regulates Long Non-coding RNAs in Cryptococcus neoformans Murat C. Kalem, Harini Subbiah, John C. Panepinto Department of Microbiology and Immunology - SUNY University at Buffalo |
| 01:30-01:45pm | The role of Musashi proteins in the maintenance of mature photoreceptor cells Fatimah Matalkah, Bohye Jeong, Visvanathan Ramamurthy , Peter Stoilov Biochemistry/WVU |
| 01:45-02:00pm | Nucleotide-level resolution of RNA folding interactions within peptide-based complex coacervates McCauley Meyer, Saehyun Choi, Fatma Pir Cakmak, Philip C. Bevilacqua, Christine D. Keating Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 |
| 02:00-02:15pm | Not just a phase: understanding ribosome biogenesis using liquid-liquid phase biology Amber J. LaPeruta, Jelena Micic, Daniel M. Wilson, Fiona Fitzgerald , John L. Woolford Jr. Carnegie Mellon University Department of Biological Sciences |
| 02:15-02:30pm | Utilization of high-pressure NMR for the study of an intrinsically disordered domain of hnRNP A1 Jeffrey D. Levengood, Jake Peterson, Julien Roche, Blanton S. Tolbert Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University |
| 02:30-03:00pm | BYO Coffee Break - Conference site main hall |
Session II: Plenary 2. Translational Control | |
| 03:00-03:15pm | uORF control of cardiac gene expression: Lessons learned from a single nucleotide that regulates cardiomyocyte biology Omar M. Hedaya, Feng Jiang, Venkata Kadiam, Jiangbin Wu, Darren Khorr, Peng Yao Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester |
| 03:15-03:30pm | Pumilio-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of DICER1 protein in Dicer1 syndrome Swetha Rajasekaran, Wayne Miles Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University |
| 03:30-03:45pm | Dynamic Phosphorylation Regulates Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4A Activity During The Cell Cycle Ansuman Sahoo, Marium Ashraf, Sarah E. Walker Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo |
| 03:45-04:00pm | Pnrc2-dependent mRNA decay and translational control mechanisms promote oscillatory gene expression during vertebrate segmentation Monica Mannings, Thomas Gallagher, Kiel Tietz, Sharon Amacher The Ohio State University Molecular Genetics Department |
| 04:00-04:15pm | Human UPF3-dependent nonsense-mediated mRNA decay is regulated by a specific exon junction complex composition Zhongxia Yi, Guramrit Singh Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University |
| 04:15-04:30pm | Unraveling the roles of 5’ transcript leaders in gene regulation Christina Akirtava, Hunter Kready, Lauren Nazzaro, Matt Agar-Johnson, Gemma E May, C. Joel McManus Carnegie Mellon University, Biological Sciences |
| 04:30-06:00pm | Dinner / Commuter Break |
| 06:00-07:00pm | Keynote - Dr Rachel Green, PhD; HHMI and Johns Hopkins University |
| 07:30-09:00pm | Poster Session I Odd numbers |
| 09:00-10:30pm | Poster Session II - Even Numbers |
Saturday, Oct 24
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
Session III: RNA biology of SARS-CoV-2 session | |
| 09:30-09:55am | Targeting −1 programmed ribosomal frameshiting of SARS-CoV-2 Yu Sun, Laura Abriola, Yulia Surovtseva, Brett Lindenbach, Junjie Guo Department of Neuroscience, Yale University |
| 10:00-10:30am | RNA Therapeutics: Informational drugs as a pandemic response tool Anastasia Khvorova University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| 10:30-11:00am | Accelerated 3D RNA structure determination and the SARS-CoV-2 genome Zhang, K., Zheludev, I. N., Hagey, R. J., Wu, M. T.-P., Haslecker, R., Hou, Y. J., Kretsch, R., Pintilie, G. D., Rangan, R., Kladwang, W., Li, S., Pham, E. A., Bernardin-Souibgui, C., Baric, R. S., Sheahan, T. P., D Souza, V., Glenn, J. S., Chiu, W., Das, R. Biochemistry Department, Stanford University |
| 11:00-12:30pm | Workshop on promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in biomedical research |
| 12:30-01:00pm | Lunch Break |
Session IV: Plenary 3. tRNAs and RNA modifications | |
| 01:00-01:15pm | Structure and assembly of human Multi-tRNA Synthetase Complex reveals novel mechanism of disease association Krishnendu Khan, Camelia B. Gogonea, Belinda Willard, Valentin Gogonea, Paul L. Fox Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| 01:15-01:30pm | A missense variant impairing TRMT1 function in tRNA modification is linked to intellectual disability Kejia Zhang, Dragony Fu Department of Biology, Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester |
| 01:30-01:45pm | ADAR3 alters the MAVS/NF-κB signaling pathway in glioblastoma Reshma Raghava Kurup, Emilie Oakes, Aidan Manning, Pranathi Vadlamani, Heather A. Hundley Genome, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Indiana University |
| 01:45-02:00pm | Developmental regulation of edited CYb and COIII mitochondrial mRNAs is achieved by distinct mechanisms in Trypanosoma brucei Joseph T. Smith Jr., Eva Dolezelova, Alena Zikova, Brianna Tylec, Jonathan Bard, Runpu Chen, Yijun Sun, Laurie K. Read Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo |
| 02:00-02:15pm | Role of unique C-terminal domain in a plant aminoacyl-tRNA trans-editing protein Jun-Kyu Byun, John Vu, William A. Cantara, Jawad Abid, Jyan-Chyun Jang, Karin Musier-Forsyth Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University |
| 02:15-02:30pm | Disease-associated point mutations in a bifunctional aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase elicit the integrated stress response Danni Jin, Nathan Kudlapur, Ronald Wek, Karin Musier-Forsyth Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210 |
| 02:30-02:45pm | BYO Coffee Break - Conference site main hall |
Session V: Plenary 4. Functional RNA structures | |
| 02:45-03:00pm | Chemistry and catalysis join forces in prebiotic RNA ligation Saurja DasGupta, Travis Walton, Daniel Duzdevich, Seung Soo Oh, Jack Szostak Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 03:00-03:15pm | Structural basis of sequestration of the Anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence in the Bacteroidetes ribosome Zakkary A. McNutt, Bappaditya Roy, Bethany L. Boleratz, Dean E. Watkins, Vikash Jha, Dushyant Jahagirdar, Kaustuv Basu, Elan A. Shatoff, Ralf Bundschuh, Joaquin Ortega, Kurt Fredrick Department of Microbiology & Center for RNA Biology & The Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA |
| 03:15-03:30pm | Structure-function relationship in biogenesis of microRNA-31 Anita Kotar, Sarah Keane Biophysics program, University of Michigan |
| 03:30-03:45pm | Sequence and structure control assembly of RNA condensates Raghav Poudyal, Jacob Sieg, Bede Portz, Christine Keating, Philip Bevilacqua Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University |
| 03:45-04:05pm | Translational induction of ATF4 mRNA during stress requires noncanonical initiation factors eIF2D and DENR Deepika Vasudevan, Sarah D. Neuman, Amy Yang, Arash Bashirullah, Hyung Don Ryoo Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine |
| 04:05-04:25pm | lncRNA phase separation in nuclear organization. Huaiying Zhang Carnegie Mellon University |
| 04:30-05:00pm | Awards ceremony and closing comments |