Agenda

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

08:30 am - 08:35 am EST
Opening Remarks


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

SESSION 1
08:35 am - 09:00 am EST
Watching mRNAs Form Memories


Robert Singer, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

09:00 am - 09:15 am EST
Oral Presentation
09:15 am - 09:30 am EST
Oral Presentation
09:30 am - 09:45 am EST
Oral Presentation
09:45 am - 10:15 am EST
BREAK
SESSION 2
10:15 am - 10:45 am EST
Towards a Better Understanding of RNA Organization in Cells


Daniel Zenklusen, Ph.D.
Université de Montréal

10:45 am - 11:15 am EST
A Single-molecule Understanding of Transcriptional Bursting


Tineke Lenstra, Ph.D.
Netherlands Cancer Institute

11:15 am - 11:30 am EST
Oral Presentation
11:30 am - 11:45 am EST
Oral Presentation
11:45 am - 02:00 pm EST
LUNCH & POSTER SESSION

(Posters located in Building 35A Lobby)

SESSION 3
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm EST
Looking to the Future: Assembly and Regulation of Germline RNA Granules


Elizabeth Gavis, M.D., Ph.D.
Princeton University

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm EST
Imaging the Canonical and Non-canonical Translation Dynamics of Single mRNA in Living Cells


Timothy Stasevich, Ph.D.
Colorado State University

03:00 pm - 03:15 pm EST
Oral Presentation
03:15 pm - 03:30 pm EST
Oral Presentation
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm EST
BREAK
SESSION 4
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm EST
RNA Analogs of GFP: Fluorescence Turn-on Aptamers as Imaging Probes for the Cellular Transcriptome


Adrian Ferre d’Amare, Ph.D.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH

04:30 pm - 05:00 pm EST
How RNA-Protein Interaction Leads to Phase Separation


Sua Myong, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University

05:00 pm - 05:15 pm EST
Oral Presentation
05:15 pm - 05:30 pm EST
Oral Presentation
05:30 pm - 05:35 pm EST
Closing Remarks