Program with Titles

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Saturday, February 2, 2008

There are no lectures on this day.  The Symposium registration desk, at the hotel, opens at 5 p.m. for those of you who wish to pick up your registration materials and for new registrants.  The desk will remain open until 8 p.m.  The meeting begins with posters on Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. and lectures begin at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Feodor Lynen Lecture: Susan Gottesman, NIH, "Small RNAs and Bacterial Stress Responses" This Award is supported by BIOO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

Morning Session: Mechanism of Action I

  • E. Gerhart Wagner, Uppsala Univ. "Bacterial sRNAs: Roles and Mechanisms"
  • Andrew Feig, "HFQ Serves as a Platform for the Assembly of Complex RNP Particles Containing Non-Coding RNAs"
  •  Ronald R. Breaker, Yale "Gene Control by Complex Riboswitches"

Afternoon Session: Mechanism of Action II

  • Kazuko Nishikura, The Wistar Institute "Modulation of microRNA Processing and Target Selection by RNA Editing"
  • Masayuki Nashimoto, "Modulatino of Gene Expression by Human Cytosolic tRNase Z Through Small Noncoding RNA"
  • Cynthia M. Sharma, "A Small RNA Regulates Multiple ABC Transporter mRNAs by Targeting C/A-Rich Elements Inside and Upstream of Ribosome Binding Sites"
  • Phillip D. Zamore, U. Mass "RNAi and Other Ancient Pathways Programmed by Small RNA"
    This lecture is supported by Abbott Laboratories

Monday, February 4, 2008

Morning Session: Novel Regulatory RNA

  • Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin "MicroRNA Targets"  This lecture is the IUBMB Jubilee Lecture,  supported by the International Union of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  • James A. Timmons, "Complementary Activation of Coding and Non-Coding Networks Regulate Gains in Aerobic Capacity"
  • Pamela J. Green, U. Delaware "Elucidating the Small RNA Profile of the Transcriptome"
  • Claes Wahlestedt, "Large-Scale Functional Analysis of Mammalian Long Noncoding Antisense Transcripts"
  • Jeannie T. Lee, Harvard "X-chromosome Inactivation: Fun in Long ncRNAs Too"

Afternoon Session: Biogenesis of Regulatory RNA

  • Leemor Joshua-Tor, CSHL "Slicer and the Aragonautes"
  • Gisela Storz, NIH "Wide Ranging Functions of sRNAS in Bacteria"
  • Sven Diederichs, "Argonaute Proteins in microRNA Biogenesis"
  • Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Inst., Basel "Role of Dicer in miRNA/RNAi Pathways and Regulation of miRNA Repression"
  • Ramin Shiekhattar, Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Spain "Biochemical Elucidation of RNAi Effector Complexes"

Monday Evening

Lifetime Achievement Award: Phillip A. Sharp, MIT  "The Life of an RNA Biologist" This Award is supported by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Distinguished Service Award: David P. Bartel, Whitehead Inst./MIT "MicroRNA Genomics and Function"  This  Award supported by Merck Research Laboratories

Morning Session: Regulatory RNA in Development & Disease

  • Markus Stoffel, ETH Zurich "MicroRNA Function in Mice"
  • Yangming Wang, "microRNAs Regulate the G1/S Transition of Embryonic Stem Cells"
  • Eric N. Olson, UT Southwestern "Control of Heart Development and Disease by MicroRNAs" 
  • Gary Ruvkun, Harvard "Saturation Genetic Analysis of C. elegans RNA and miRNA Pathways"

Afternoon Session: Regulatory RNA and Cancer Biology

  • Frank J. Slack, Yale "MicroRNAs in Development and Disease"
  • Keith A. Webster, "Expression of the Argonaute Protein PiwiL2 in MitoticMesenchymal Stem Cells"
  • Scott M. Hammond, U North Carolina "MicroRNA Function in Development and Cancer"

RNA as Therapeutics and Diagnostics I

  • Jacoba G. Slagter-Jager,  "siRNA Delivery to Cancer Cells Through a c-Kit Specific Aptamer"
  • Stephen W. Fesik, Abbott Labs "Cancer Target Identification and Validation with RNAi"

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The Special Achievement Award: David C. Baulcombe, Sainsbury Lab "Small Silencing RNAs: Integrators of RNA Based Regulatory Systems"  This Award supported by Rosetta Genomics

Morning Session: RNA as Therapeutics & Diagnostics II

  • Luigi Naldini, HSR-TIGET, Milan, Italy "MicroRNA-Regulated Vectors for Gene Therapy" 
  • Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Merck Research Labs "RNA Therapeutics at Merck Research Laboratories" 
  • Judy Lieberman, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing RNAi for Therapy"
  • Carlo M. Croce, Ohio State "Role of MicroRNAs in Cancer"