Agenda

Friday, January 30, 2026

09:25 am EST
Welcome Remarks

Sandra Wolin, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research

Session I:  Oral Presentations
Chair: Andrés Bustamante, Ph.D., Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK

09:30 am EST
Biocondensates in Action: The Formation and Reformation of EWSR1, FUS and TAF15 Ribonucleoprotein Networks

Natasha Caplen (GB)

09:45 am EST
Targeting lncRNA with Small Molecules to Investigate Chromosome Instability in Cancer

Annie Gilbert (LRBGE)

10:00 am EST
Cohesin Loader NIPBL and STAG/eRNAs Orchestrate the Dynamic 3D Chromatin Architectures upon Androgen Receptor Activation

Shuang Feng (LRBGE)

10:15 am EST
Single-Cell Exon Deletion Profiling Reveals Splicing Events That Shape Gene Expression and Cell State Dynamics

Bandara Kumari (RBL)

10:30 am EST
Stress-Mediated Splicing of Intron Retention via RRP1B Nuclear Speckle Localization in Breast Cancer Metastasis

Wan-Ning (Chloe) Li (LCBG)

10:45 am EST
Poster Session

Seminar Room 110

12:00 pm EST
Lunch

Poster Viewing Continues

Session II:  Keynote Address
Introduction: Colin Wu Ph.D., RNA Biology Laboratory, CCR

01:00 pm EST
RNA Granules: Functional Compartments or Incidental Condensates?

Geraldine Seydoux, PhD

Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

Session III: Oral Presentations
Chair: Matthew Payea, Ph.D., Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, NIA

02:00 pm EST
Prime Editing–Based In Vivo Saturation Mutagenesis Maps Functional DICER1 Variants

Indranil Mondal (RBL)

02:15 pm EST
Discovering Phenotypic Targets of an Ancient microRNA Family in C. elegans

Kasuen Kotagama (NIDDK)

02:30 pm EST
Break

Session IV:  Oral Presentations
Chair: Sneha Kulkarni, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular Biology, CCR

02:55 pm EST
RhoA-Induced Local mRNA Condensation Mediates Microtubule Bundling and Membrane Bending

Konstadinos Moissoglu (LCMB)

03:10 pm EST
ZAP-S Couples Aberrant ER Targeting to Selective mRNA Decay

Akruti Shah (RBL)

03:25 pm EST
Super Resolution Imaging Reveals Translation Dependent Alterations to mRNA Shape/Structure In Vivo at Nanometer Scale

Murali Palangat (LRBGE)

03:40 pm EST
ac4C Enhances mRNA Translation Rate, Fidelity and Yield Compared to m1Ψ

Sarah Schiffers (LRBGE)

03:33 pm EST
DIS3L2-Mediated RNA Surveillance and Extracellular Vesicles Packaging Prevent Innate Immune Activation by Aberrant Cellular RNAs

Sandra Williams (RBL)

04:10 pm EST
Wrap-Up, Poster Prizes & Adjourn

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