Talk Abstracts

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Time	Presenter	Title	PI
Friday 01:15-01:30pm	Edric Choi	Kinetic modeling of chemical probing data enables extraction of intrinsic nucleotide energetics	Julius Lucks
Friday 01:30-01:45pm	Bryan Gemler	Identification of leader-trailer helices of precursor ribosomal RNA in all phyla of bacteria and archaea	Ralf Bundschuh
Friday 01:45-02:00pm	Taylor Ayers	How are RNA helicases recruited to their RNA substrates?	John Woolford
Friday 02:00-02:15pm	Aldrex Munsayac	Solution scattering as a structural tool for RNA and RNA:RNA complexes	Sarah Keane
Friday 02:15-02:30pm	Grace Johnecheck	Substrate Recognition by Two 3' to 5' RNA Polymerases in Dictyostelium discoideum	Jane Jackman
Friday 02:30-02:45pm	Nik Tsotakos	Changes in the non-coding RNAs of Glucose-Challenged Human Glomerular Epithelial Cells May Give Insights into the Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease	Nik Tsotakos
Friday 03:15-03:30pm	Gabrielle Schuh	Repression of Ago1 by Ago2 via let-7 microRNAs facilitates embryonic stem cell differentiation	Wenqian Hu
Friday 03:30-03:45pm	Kira Holton	Substrate Selection and Functional Outcomes by the mRNA modifying enzyme PUS7	Chase Weidmann
Friday 03:45-04:00pm	Victor Corral	RNase H1 phosphorylation promotes RPA interaction to safeguard genome integrity from R-loop-associated instability	Hai Dang Nguyen
Friday 04:00-04:15pm	Misbah Khan	PUMILIO post-transcriptional regulation of nuclear encoded mitochondrial genes in human cells.	Wayne Miles
Friday 04:15-04:30pm	Katherine Querry	Ribosomal release factors Hbs1 and Pelota regulate translation of coding regions following upstream open reading frames	Deepika Vasudevan
Friday 04:30-04:45pm	Ritam Neupane	Translation of human papillomavirus E6 protein from mRNAs with extremely short 5′-UTRs	Rachel Niederer
Friday 05:00-06:00pm	Phil Bevilacqua	Keynote lecture: Understanding RNA folding in vivo by two complementary approaches	Phil Bevilacqua
Saturday 08:30-08:45am	Vidhyadhar Nandana	Bacterial Ribonucleoprotein bodies (BR-bodies) organize mRNA decay and coordinate other steps of RNA metabolism in bacteria	Jared Schrader
Saturday 08:45-09:00am	Rajendra K c	Data-driven maps of RNA polymerase III transcription and macromolecular interactions identifies new gene targets and regulatory mechanisms	Kevin Van Bortle
Saturday 09:00-09:15am	Shardul Kulkarni	Human CCR4-NOT is a global regulator of gene expression and is a novel silencer of retrotransposon activation	Joseph Reese
Saturday 09:15-09:30am	Sarah Nock	Characterization of the UPF1 protein interactome in yeast provides mechanistic insight into mRNP transitions during nonsense-mediated mRNA decay	Kristian Baker
Saturday 09:30-09:45am	Jacob Smith	Mapping the transcriptional effects of the ER stress sensor IRE1 with optogenetic oligomerization and long-read sequencing	Vlad Belyy
Saturday 09:45-10:00am	Katharine Maschhoff	GCN2 monitors mRNA translation termination	Wenqian Hu
Saturday 10:30-10:45am	Emily Fairchild	Predictive computational method development for T-box riboswitch drug discovery	Jennifer Hines
Saturday 10:45-11:00am	Kai Jin	Construction of RNA four-way junction to co-deliver RNAi and chemical drugs for efficient treatment of colon cancer lung metastasis with undetectable toxicity	Peixuan Guo
Saturday 11:00-11:15am	Warlley Cunha	CASC15 lncRNA as a Mediator of Vascular Senescence in the Renin-Angiotensin System	Cristina Espinosa-Diez
Saturday 11:15-11:30am	Tiffany Barwell	Title not published online	Kausik Chakrabarti
Saturday 11:30-11:45am	Rachel Giles	Purine mRNA modifications impact translation speed	Kristin Koutmou
Saturday 11:45-12:00pm	Brittany Morgan	Selective Small Molecule Targeting of Homologous RNA-Binding Proteins	Self