Agenda
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
08:30 am - 08:35 am

Opening Remarks
Sandra Wolin, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Cancer Research, NCI
SESSION 1
08:35 am - 09:00 am

Watching mRNAs Form Memories
Robert Singer, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
09:00 am - 09:15 am
Oral Presentation
09:15 am - 09:30 am
Oral Presentation
09:30 am - 09:45 am
Oral Presentation
09:45 am - 10:15 am
BREAK
SESSION 2
10:15 am - 10:45 am

Towards a Better Understanding of RNA Organization in Cells
Daniel Zenklusen, Ph.D.
Université de Montréal
10:45 am - 11:15 am

A Single-molecule Understanding of Transcriptional Bursting
Tineke Lenstra, Ph.D.
Netherlands Cancer Institute
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Oral Presentation
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Oral Presentation
11:45 am - 02:00 pm
LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
(Posters located in Building 35A Lobby)
SESSION 3
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm

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

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
Oral Presentation
03:15 pm - 03:30 pm
Oral Presentation
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
BREAK
SESSION 4
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm

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

How RNA-Protein Interaction Leads to Phase Separation
Sua Myong, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
05:00 pm - 05:15 pm
Oral Presentation
05:15 pm - 05:30 pm
Oral Presentation
05:30 pm - 05:35 pm
Closing Remarks