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Friday, Oct 24

TimeEvent
09:00-12:00pmOptional Workshops 1 and 2 (registration required)
01:00-01:15pmWelcome and Introductory remarks
  

Session I: Session 1: Translational Control & Disease Mechanisms

01:15-01:30pmRibosome association excludes stress-induced gene mRNAs from stress granules
Noah Helton, Ben Dodd, Stephanie Moon
Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
01:30-01:45pmTranslational control of a unique bicistronic gene linked to Prader-Willi syndrome
Lucia Johnson, Gemma May, Robert D Nicholls, Joel McManus
Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
01:45-02:00pmSystematic analysis of ribosome recruitment to trinucleotide repeats
Audrey Hoelscher, Ben Pockrass, Jacob Horn, Leidy Vanegas Cano, Sinem Ovunc, Peter Todd, Rachel Niederer
University of Michigan, Department of Biological Chemistry
02:00-02:15pmMechanisms of the RNA Topoisomerase 3B in translational control and neurological disease
Julia E. Warrick, Durga Attili, Sami J. Barmada, Benjamin Pastore, Wen Tang, Michael G. Kearse
Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
02:15-02:30pmIdentification of TP53-independent stress responses in eukaryotic models of Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
Noah Saito, Neha Prasad, Masayo Fujiwara, Julie Fox, Joseph Luna, Seth Corey
Case Western Reserve University
02:30-02:45pmLoss of function of RNA-binding protein PRRC2B causes translation dysregulation and congenital heart defects
Aleksandr Ivanov, Debojyoti Das, EngSoon Khor, Feng Jiang, Jiali He, Yui Kawakami, Peng Yao
Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
02:45-03:15pmCoffee break
02:45-03:15pmPI Meeting
  

Session II: Session 2: RNA Modifications & Small RNA Regulatory Systems

03:15-03:30pmUnexpected Parallels Between Archaeal and Eukaryotic Modifications Catalyzed by the SPOUT Family tRNA Methyltransferase 10
Catherine B. Whitney, Jesse Leavitt, Alexander Alon, Thomas Santangelo, Todd Lowe, Jane E. Jackman
The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for RNA Biology
03:30-03:45pmThe Influence on Translation and Biological Affects by the tRNA Methytransferase 1 (TRMT1)
Chenghong Deng, Dr. Kejia Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Grace Yang, Helen Jackson, Jiaming Mao, Dr. Dragony Fu
University of Rochester
03:45-04:00pmDihydrouridine modification in tRNA impact ribosome frame maintenance during protein synthesis
Chathuri Pathirage, Kaley Simcox, Maddy Zamecnik, Xingchen Liu, Lauren Barnes, Yubin Kim, Kristin S. Koutmou
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
04:00-04:15pmNeurodevelopmental disorder-linked Argonaute mutations permit incorrect miRNA loading
Andrew Savidge, Huaqun Zhang, Vishal Adhav, Geunyoung Sim, Audrey Kehling, Zhangfei Shen, Tianmin Fu, Kotaro Nakanishi
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
04:15-04:30pmDesigning cityRNAs targeting single-nucleotide KRAS mutations
Mackenzie Dillenbeck, Audrey Kehling, Huaqun Zhang, Kotaro Nakanishi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
04:30-04:45pmTitle not published online - please see booklet
Marjia A., Farheen N., Prem K. and Lovlesh T., Amit G., Jillian G., Bibo L.
Cleveland State University, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Cleveland, OH
04:45-05:00pmBrief Break
  

Session III: Keynote Lecture

05:00-06:00pm Co-transcriptional RNA processing enables RNA to be a first responder
Karla Neugebauer
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
06:00-08:00pmDinner
08:00-09:30pmEVEN Posters
08:00-11:00pmPoster Session and Reception
09:30-11:00pmODD Posters

Saturday, Oct 25

TimeEvent
07:00-08:30amBreakfast
  

Session IV: Session 3: RNA Structure, Folding, & Biophysics

08:30-08:45amGoing in circles, staying in control: How circRNA helps bacteria weather stress
Avleen K. Chawla, Mary J. Billings, Anna M. Kietrys
Carnegie Mellon University
08:45-09:00amTitle not published online - please see booklet
Rajesh Kumar Reddy Sannapuredi, Yaping Liu, Rafael Davish, Sydney Steele, Bruce A. Johnson, Sarah Keane
Biophysics and University of Michigan
09:00-09:15amDetection of pUG Fold Quadruplexes in Human Cells
Mohsen Badiee, Samuel E. Butcher
Biochemistry, University Wisconsin-Madison
09:15-09:30amFine scale structural information substantially improves multivariate regression model for mRNA in-vial degradation prediction
Soon Yi, Sara E Ali, Yashrajsinh Jadeja, J. Wade Davis, Mihir Metkar
Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Rserve University School of Medicine
09:30-09:45amBiochemical mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein phosphorylation-induced functional switch
Megan S. Sullivan, Michael Morse, Kaylee Grabarkewitz, Dina Bayachou, Ioulia Rouzina, Vicki Wysocki, Mark C. Williams, Karin Musier-Forsyth
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, Center for Retroviral Research, The Ohio State University
09:45-10:00amA large and ancient bacterial noncoding RNA enables adaptation to various stresses
Seth E. Lyon, Chrishan M. Fernando, Freya D. R. Wencker, Hannah Barsouk, Ronald R. Breaker
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
10:00-10:30amCoffee break
  

Session V: Session 4: RNA-Protein Complexes & Gene Regulation

10:30-10:45amRNA-binding proteins activate transcription through defined molecular grammars
Dervla Moore-Frederick, Haoran Wang, Lydia Phillips, Bailey Webster, Deyuan Xu, Arth Banka, Grant Mowry, Emily Wang, Sid Srivastava, Jonathan E Henninger
Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
10:45-11:00amTowards a Model of RNA Regulation by Fatty Acid Synthase
Yelena Perevalova, Marcin Sajek, Byungil Kim, Neelanjan Mukherjee, Manuel Ascano
Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University
11:00-11:15amMeasuring the Transcriptional and Splicing Effects of Optically Activated IRE1 and the Unfolded Protein Response
Jacob W. Smith, Vladislav Belyy
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
11:15-11:30amDissecting unexpected connections between transcriptional control and Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay
Rene Arvola, Toby Frazer, Debadrita Paul, Ryan Denniston, Michael Schiff, Ralf Bundschuh, Sharon Amacher, Guramrit Singh
Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
11:30-11:45amGenetically encoded chemical crosslinking of RNA (GECX-RNA) for enhanced CRISPR/Cas applications
Pabina Pokharel, Wei Sun
Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech
11:45-12:00pmRiboregulation of an innate immune signaling complex
Nandan Gokhale
Division of Immunobiology, CCHMC
  
12:00-12:30pmAwards and Closing Remarks