Agenda

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

09:00 am EST
Welcome Remarks

Voula Mili, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCR

Session I:  Oral Presentations
Chair:  Xing Luo, Ph.D., Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CCR

09:15 am EST
CONSEQUENCES OF CIRCULAR RNA ESCAPE DURING HERPESVIRUS HOST SHUTOFF

Sarah Dremel (Ziegelbauer, Joe: HAMB)

09:30 am EST
AGO2’S CATALYTIC FUNCTION REGULATES MOUSE PLACENTAL AND EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT

Manish Kumar (Vidigal, Joana: LBMB)

09:45 am EST
A NEW NONCANONICAL BIOGENESIS PATHWAY GENERATES A GERMLINE ENRICHED MIRNA FAMILY IN C. ELEGANS

Rima Sakhawala (McJunkin, Katherine: LCDB)

10:00 am EST
DICER PROCESSING OF PRE-MIR-138-2 IS REGULATED BY URIDYLATION

Acong Yang (Gu, Shuo: RBL)

 

10:15 am EST
PHOTOCHEMICAL REGULATION OF TRANSLATION VIA MOLECULAR RECOGNITION-BASED REVERSIBLE PHOTO-CROSSLINKING PROBE 

Shaifaly Parmar (Schneekloth, Jay: CBL)

10:30 am EST
Poster Session

Seminar Room 110

12:00 pm EST
Lunch

Poster Session Continues

Session II:  Keynote Address
Chair:  Pedro Batista, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cell Biology, CCR

01:00 pm EST
Investigating m6A at Single-Cell Resolution

Kathryn Meyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Co-Director, Duke Center for RNA Biology
Duke University School of Medicine

Session III:  Oral Presentations
Chair:  Dimitrios Anastasakis, Ph.D., Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells & Gene Regulation, NIAMS

02:00 pm EST
AN UNEXPECTED ROLE FOR NMD FACTORS IN TELOMERE PROTECTION

Marta Markiewicz-Potoczny (Lazzerini Denchi, Eros: LGI)

02:15 pm EST
SUBCELLULAR mRNA LOCALIZATION AND FUNCTION IN INTACT TISSUE

Devon Mason (Mili, Voula: LCMB)

02:30 pm EST
Break

Session IV:  Oral Presentations
Chair:  Vladimir Majerciak, Ph.D., HIV Dynamics & Replication Program, CCR

03:00 pm EST
WHEN GOOD RIBOSOMES GO BAD: UNCOVERING FACTORS INVOLVED IN HUMAN 18S NON-FUNCTIONAL rRNA DECAY

Aaztli Coria (Wu, Colin: RBL)

03:15 pm EST
ACCURATE PREDICTION OF RNA TRANSLATION WITH A DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURE

Xiaojuan Fan (Hafner, Markus: NIAMS)  

03:30 pm EST
RECRUITMENT OF CCR4-NOT BY TRISTETRAPROLIN TO ARE-CONTAINING mRNAs

Filip Pekovic (Valkov, Eugene: RBL)

03:45 pm EST
UTILIZING RNA DEVICES TO MODULATE PD-1 GENE EXPRESSION IN MAMMALIAN CELLS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

Vibha Dwivedi (Wang, Yun-Xing: CSB)

04:00 pm EST
Wrap-Up, Poster Prizes & Adjourn

Shuo Gu, Ph.D., RNA Biology Laboratory, CCR