Friday, October 8, 2010
11:30 am - 02:00 pm: Registration, poster setup and lunch buffet
02:00 pm - 02:30 pm: Introductions (Marlene Belfort
and David Shub)
Session I: Big RNAs (Chairperson: Scott Tenenbaum)
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Lynne Maquat (Keynote Talk)
mRNP Rearrangements During the Pioneer Round of Translation, Nonsense-
Mediated mRNA Decay, and Thereafter
03:30 pm - 03:50 pm: Roopa Thapar
ERI mediated decay (EMD): Novel exonucleases and
pathways in mRNA decay
03:50 pm - 04:10 pm: William Bauer
Structural comparison of pseudouridine-modified U2
snRNA/branchpoint site containing RNA duplexes
04:10 pm - 04:30 pm: Leonard Lipovich
Genome-wide computational and experimental analysis of
long non- coding RNA genes in a complex human brain disorder
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm: Poster session 1 + Wine and cheese
05:30 pm - 07:00 pm: Dinner and room check-in
Session II: Aptamers, Ribozymes and RNAs (Chairperson: Tom Eickbush )
07:00 pm - 07:20 pm: Daiying Xu
Two classes of RNA aptamers as antagonists of human estrogen
receptor alpha
07:20 pm - 07:40 pm: Elisa Biondi
A double-site acting kinase ribozyme
07:40 pm - 08:00 pm: Toby Soper
Positive regulation of RpoS by small RNAs and the role of Hfq
08:00 pm - 09:00 pm: Larry Gold (Keynote Talk)
SOMAmers: Proteomics to lung cancer to a Wellness Chip
09:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Social hour
Saturday, October 9, 2010
07:30 am - 08:30 am: Breakfast
Session III: RNA Folding and Assembly (Chairperson: Yi-Tao Yu )
08:30 am - 08:50 am: Joerg Schlatterer
Mapping the competing barriers that define alternative RNA 9
folding pathways
08:50 am - 09:10 am: Steve Meisburger
Time-resolved SAXS reconstructions reveal a kinetic
intermediate in RNA folding
09:10 am - 09:30 am: Nathan Napper
Alternative assembly pathways of ribosomal 30S subunits
in thermophilic bacteria
09:30 am - 10:00 am: Rob Knight (Mini-keynote Talk)
Nucleotides that are essential but not conserved
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Poster session 2
Session IV: RNA Structure (Chairperson: Michael Zuker )
11:00 am - 11:20 am: Matthew Seetin
Automated RNA tertiary structure prediction
11:20 am - 11:40 am: Jerome Waldispuhl
RNAmutants: A computational framework to explore the
mutational landscape of structural RNAs: theory and applications
11:40 am - 12:00 pm: Dan Fabris
Higher-order structure of RNA by MS-based approaches
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm: Anna M. Pyle (Keynote Talk)
The tertiary structure and folding pathways of group II introns: paradigms
for the assembly of large, multidomain RNAs and RNPs
01:00 pm - 02:00pm: Lunch/departure