Poster Abstracts

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Number	Presenter	Title	PI
1	Sudeshi Abedeera	The h18pep1 inhibit RsuA binding to 16S rRNA
2	Jawad Abid	Human trans-editing enzyme displays tRNA acceptor stem specificity and relaxed amino acid selectivity	Karin Musier-Forsyth
3	Hannah Ackerman	Title not published online
4	Christina Akirtava	Unraveling the roles of 5’ transcript leaders in gene regulation	Joel McManus
5	Basma Al Masraf	TCAB1 is necessary for telomerase RNP assembly	Jens Schmidt
6	Anna Anders	Expanding native IM-MS into the transcriptome	Brandon T. Ruotolo
7	Rene Arvola	Investigating Regulators of Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay in Zebrafish Neuromuscular Development	Guramrit Singh
8	Taylor Ayers	Investigating the epitranscriptome of the early embryo
9	Sushant Bangru	ESRP2–microRNA-122 axis directs the postnatal onset of liver maturation and polyploidization.	Auinash Kalsotra
10	Maxwell Bannister	Functional characterization and therapeutic opportunities of RNA splicing factor mutants in myelodysplastic syndromes	Dr. Hai Dang Nguyen
11	Daniel Binzel	Rational Design for Controlled Release of Dicer Substrate siRNA Harbored in phi29 Based RNA Nanoparticles	Peixuan Guo
12	Anton Blatnik	Using SMN mutants to determine what functions SMN performs and which are critical to SMA	Arthur H.M. Burghes
13	Hannah Boesger	Drug Discovery Studies Targeting the Stem Loop 2 Motif in SARS-CoV-2 RNA
14	Isobel Bowles	Identification of a tRNA-specific function for the tRNA methyltransferase Trm10 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Jane Jackman
15	David Bushhouse	Expression platform features tune functional characteristics of the Clostridium beijerincki ZTP riboswitch	Julius Lucks
16	Chih-Wei Chen	Synergistic properties of ribosome-targeting macrolides and hygromycin A	Yury Polikanov
18	Sandip Chorghade	Dynamic expression of poly(A) binding protein N1 coordinates cardiac growth during development and disease
19	Katie Clark	tRNA family-specific turnover pathways and environmental stresses regulate tRNA intron degradation
20	Victor Corral	A phosphorylation circuitry of RNaseH1 regulates R-loop homeostasis	Hai Dang Nguyen
21	Justin Davis	Insights into RNA-protein interactions in Trypanosoma brucei telomerase	Kausik Chakrabarti
22	Sam Desind	Role of the long non-coding RNA PACER in regulation of COX-2 gene expression	Carol Lutz
23	Zac Dewald	Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Adversely Alters the Adult Hepatocellular Transcriptome
24	Alfa Dhakal	Role of ADR-1 in the pathogen response of C. elegans	Heather Hundley
25	Taylor Dickson	RNA G-quadruplex behavior and observation of liquid-liquid phase separation under biologically relevant conditions.
26	Michay Diez	iCodon: Harnessing mRNA stability to customize gene expression	Ariel Bazzini
27	Daisy DiVita	Investigating the inhibitory role of initiation factor eIF2A on translation in vitro	Michael Kearse
28	Taylor Dodson	Robust methods to isolate, identify, and quantify tRNA modifications in prokaryotic and eukaryotic models
29	Zihan Dong	Towards Understanding of the Role of Circular RNAs circ5615 and circCcnb1 in Cancerogenesis	Anna M. Kietrys
30	Chen Du	Structural and functional characterization of Hfq C-terminal domain using native mass spectrometry
31	Ashutosh Dubey	KREH1 helicase activity promotes the occurrence and proper positioning of mRNA editing initiation in Trypanosoma brucei
32	Caleb Embree	Investigating the role of EFTUD2 in pre-mRNA splicing and EJC deposition	Guramrit Singh
33	Emily Erdmann	Investigating an ADAR-dependent germline phenotype in 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴	Heather Hundley
34	Peter Forstmeier	Computational discovery of novel functional RNAs in SARS-CoV-2
35	Monika Franco	5-methyluridine modifications in mRNA codons impact protein synthesis by the ribosome	Kristin Koutmou
36	Sean Frisbie	RNA Pseudoknot Structure in 16S Helix 18 Destabilizes the Binding and Enzymatic Activity of Ribosomal RNA Modification Enzyme RsuA
38	Guoming Gao	Probing the impact of HOPS on RNAs with single molecule tracking	Nils Walter
39	David Goich	The p38 MAPK Hog1 remodels the translatome of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.	John Panepinto
40	Olga Golubeva	The novel role of m6A-mRNA binding protein YTHDF1 in the regulation of heart function
41	Caleb Gooden	Alternative polyadenylation of transcripts encoding trans-acting siRNAs in red clover
42	Samantha Grecco	Gene-specific Pulldown for targeted in vivo RNA structure probing
43	Lydia Grmai	Translation reinitiation regulates oocyte maturation
44	Ian Hall	Characterization of putative SAM-I riboswitches of L. monocytogenes	Sarah Keane
45	Cooper Halliday	Establishing the presence of hidden breaks in the chloroplast rRNA of various plants	Laura Ritchey
46	Victor Hernandez	Modulating RNA Splicing of DNA Topoisomerase IIα in Human Leukemia K562 Cells: Use of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing to Impact Sensitivity/Resistance to the Anticancer Agent Etoposide	Jack Yalowich
47	Laura Hertz	Strand Invasion during the Fluoride Riboswitch Cotranscriptional Folding Pathway	Julius Lucks
49	Kathryn Holzmacher	Stress-Induced Increase in Small ncRNAs Generated from Regulatory Regions of the Mitochondrial Genome	Anna BlumentalPerry
50	Md Ismail Hossain	RNA Thermometer Thermal Stability Modulated by pH-Sensitive Molecular Switching	Jennifer Hines
51	Brandon Iwaniec	Determining the role of the 3’-5’ reverse polymerase in Myxococcus xanthus
52	Malithi Jayasinghe	Reverse (3'-5') RNA polymerases: Applications beyond tRNA(His) maturation	Jane Jackman
53	Theodore Lemuel Joseph Mathuram	Identification of human homologue of mtDNA encoded retrograde signaling molecule, mmu-mito-ncR805
54	Pavana Khan	Highly specific, multiplexed isothermal pathogen detection with fluorescent aptamer readout	Aaron E Engelhart
55	Daniel L Kiss	The democratization of RNA therapeutics	Daniel Kiss
56	Thao Linh Le	Study of Trm7 interactions with binding partners Trm732 and Trm734 for 2’-O-methylation of the tRNA anticodon loop in yeast	Michael Guy
57	Jeff Levengood	Utilization of high-pressure NMR for the study of the folded and disordered domains of hnRNP A1	Blanton Tolbert
58	Weicheng Li	Quantitative modeling of ligand-binding thermodynamics in the cyclic RNA-binding oligomeric protein TRAP	Mark Foster
59	Xin Li	Deploy RNA G1-G4 dendrimers self-assembled from motifs for drug sheltering with controllable layer-by-layer release	Peixuan Guo
60	Eviania Likos	Androgen Receptor messenger RNA Metabolism
61	Chenyu Lin	Pum3 as a molecular player in transcriptional termination and R-Loop-Associated DNA Damage	Wayne Miles
62	Haiyun Liu	Coacervate rescue of nucleic acid enzyme activity damaged by UV
63	Yaping Liu	Investigation of structural switch that regulates pre-miR-92a processing by NMR	Sarah Keane
64	Xiao Ma	Selectivity mechanisms of an aminoacyl-tRNA trans-editing factor	Mark Foster
65	Justin Mabin	Human spliceosomal snRNA sequence variants generate variant spliceosomes	David Brow and Peter Lewis
66	Ananya Mahapatra	Deducing the role of ADR-2 in immune gene regulation in C. elegans	Heather Hundley
67	Sarah Matatov	Human patient derived iPSCs as a system for studying cardiac dysfunctions in Myotonic Dystrophy type 1
68	Chaitali Misra	Title not published online
69	Alan Mlotkowski	Calculations of theoretical pKa values for modified nucleobases	Christine Chow
70	Mohamed Rushdhi Mohamed Rauff	GSK3α plays a vital role in male fertility by regulating m6A levels in testis
71	Matias Montes	Elucidating the mechanisms of regulation for MDM2 alternative splicing
72	David Morgan	Identifying novel m6A binding proteins using a peptide as a bait which was enriched in a phage display experiment.
73	Priyanka Mukherjee	Long noncoding RNAs are abundant targets of ADAR3 in glioblastoma	Heather Hundley
74	Aldrex Munsayac	Towards structural characterization of RNA-only complexes via small-angle scattering techniques	Sarah Keane
75	Sarah Nock	Proximity labeling to monitor in vivo protein dynamics during nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
76	Eliza Oser	Title not published online
79	Marta Rachwalak	A key to understanding RNA’s interactome: photocleavable probes for spatiotemporal control of RNA	Anna M. Kietrys
80	Reshma Raghava Kurup	Transcriptome-wide analysis of ADAR3 binding and regulation of ADAR1 editing activity in glioblastoma cells	Heather Hundley
81	Swetha Rajasekaran	Pumilio regulates Dicer1 protein and miRNA levels in human cells	Wayne Miles
82	Rebecca Rasmussen	A Zinc-Responsive Ribosomal Protein Regulation Mechanism in E. coli	Julius Lucks
83	Nick Reiter	Impact of RNA structure on histone lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) activity and nucleosome engagement.	Reiter Nicholas
84	Guido Rossi	Characterization of lipoprotein-bound microRNAs	Pamela Pennington
85	Paul Russell	Investigating how upstream open reading frame length regulates re-initiation and mRNA stability	Michael Kearse
86	Manu Sanjeev	PYM controls Exon Junction Complex occupancy at non-canonical positions
87	MaKenzie Scarpitti	FMRP inhibits translation elongation independent of G-quadruplexes	Michael Kearse
89	Deepak Shrestha	Chemical tools to incorporate a trimethyl guanosine cap onto model RNAs and to study oxidative damage to RNA	Christine Chow
90	Jalal Siddiqui	Title not published online	Wayne Miles
91	You Jin Song	The role of a nuclear-enriched long non-coding RNA in hypoxia response and cancer progression	Prasanth Kannanganattu
92	Katherine Sortino	RESC8 and RESC14 cooperate to mediate RESC function and dynamics during trypanosome RNA editing
93	Sarah Starcovic	Screening of Group IIC Intron IEP Tags for RNP Kinetic Studies	Aaron Robart
94	Brittany Stawicki	A Transcriptome Wide Study to Elucidate co-Translational and Translation-independent mRNA Decay Kinetics	Eckhard Jankowsky
95	Nishanti Sudhakar	Experimental approaches to identify novel RNAs with tertiary structure	Phil Bevilacqua
96	Egor Syroegin	Structural basis for the context-specific action of classic peptidyl transferase inhibitors	Yury Polikanov
97	Yu-Ci Syu	Analysis of HTLV-1 Gag interactome and characterization of its chaperone activity	Karin Musier-Forsyth
99	Konrad Thorner	ELeFHAnt: An automated tool for harmonization and annotation of single cell RNA-seq data	Aaron Zorn
100	Elizabeth Liz Tidwell	Investigation of RNA 3D structure & small molecule interaction by a multidisciplinary approach	Markos Koutmos
101	Melissa Tosiano	Alternative transcription start sites (aTSS): a mechanism for post-transcriptional regulation of C. albicans filamentation
102	Megan Van Horn	The role of circular RNA in Parkinson’s disease etiology	Anna M. Kietrys
103	Akila Venkataramany	Heat restores full-length SMN transcripts: promise for splice-augmenting therapies in SMA
104	Derek Wang	A computational pipeline for RNA 8-oxoguanine accumulation caused by oxidative stress
105	Benjamin Warner	Effects of an alternative rRNA helix on 30S subunit biogenesis.	Kurt Fredrick
107	Catherine Wilhelm	Structural and kinetic studies of a minimal protein-only RNase P
108	Sydney Willey	Title not published online	Li-Chun Tu
109	Jiansong Xu	The NiCo riboswitch as an iron-responsive riboswitch: a new mechanism of bacterial iron regulation	Joseph Cotruvo
110	Meng Xu	Development of tools for TERRA imaging	Huaiying Zhang
111	Boyoon Yang	Molecular mechanisms that mediate A-to-I RNA editing in vivo	Heather Hundley
112	Haoyun Yang	Dynamics of RNA Conformational Sampling by the SMK box riboswitch	Mark Foster
113	Soon Yi	Towards quantitative measurements of global RNA-protein binding patterns in cells.	Eckhard Jankowsky
114	Zhongxia Yi	Mammalian UPF3A and UPF3B activate NMD independently of their EJC binding
115	Lichun Zhou	Natural variation in the plant polyadenylation complex
116	Teresa Zimmerman	Antimicrobial Peptides that Target RNA: Applied in a Flexible Laboratory Curriculum for Educating Interdisciplinary Scientists	Christine Chow