"Towards elucidating the splicing code" Meeting Program (PDF)

Program, July 18th 07.30 - 08.45     AS-SIG/ISMB Registration 09.00 - 09.15     Opening: Ben Blencowe 09.15 - 10.10     Keynote lecture: Global patterns in condition- and tissue-specific RNA processing, Chris Burge 10.15 - 10.45     Coffee break GLOBAL ANALYSES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Chair: Brendan Frey 10.45 - 11.25     Digital analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing by high throughput sequencing, Xiang-Dong Fu 11.25 - 11.45     Detecting Alternative Splicing in Deep Sequencing Data, Fan Meng 11.45 - 12.05     Deep surveying of alternative splicing complexity in the human transcriptome by next generation sequencing, Qun Pan 12.05 - 12.25     MADS: a new and improved method for analysis of differential alternative splicing by exon-tiling microarrays, Yi Xing 12.25 - 12.45     Practical optimization of large scale primer probe selection using the flexible febit Geniom platform, Anthony Caruso 12.45 - 13.45     Lunch break 13.50 - 14.10     Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing using high-density oligonucleotide microarrays, Alan Williams SPLICING REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES Chair: Uwe Ohler 14.10 - 14.50     A functional exploration of the eukaryotic mRNA processing machinery, Brent Graveley 14.50 - 15.10     Evolution of ultraconserved, unproductive splicing in SR genes, Steven Brenner 15.10 - 15.30     Exon creation and establishment in human genes, Andre Corvelo 15.30 - 16.00     Coffee break 16.00 - 16.20     Intron loss, gain, and alternative splicing in Drosophila, Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF SPLICING REGULATION (PART I) Chair: Eduardo Eyras 16.20 - 17.00     Pre-mRNA splicing factors: old players in new games, Javier Caceres 17.00 - 18.30     Poster session followed by        Conference dinner Program, July 19th 07.30 - 08.45     AS-SIG/ISMB Registration SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF SPLICING REGULATION (PART II) Chair: Eduardo Eyras 09.00 - 09.40     Mechanisms of alternative mRNA processing in the brain revealed by HITS-CLIP(I), Donny Licatalosi 09.40 - 10.20     RRM-RNA complexes - toward an RRM-RNA recognition code?, Fred Allain 10.20 - 10.45     Coffee break 10.45 - 11.05     Engineer artificial splicing factors with designed specificity, Yang Wang 11.05 - 11.25     Identification of the sequence preferences of RNA binding proteins using a microarray approach, Debashish Ray 11.25 - 11.45     Identification and characterization of nSR100, a novel neuronal splicing regulator, John A. Calarco SPLICING, VARIATION AND DISEASE Chair: Graziano Pesole 11.45 - 12.25     Identifying alternative hyper-splicing signatures in MG-thymoma by exon arrays, Hermona Soreq 12.30 - 13.30     Lunch break 14.00 - 14.40     Alternative splicing markers in cancer and their regulation by RNA binding proteins, Benoit Chabot 14.40 - 15.00     Visualizing the weakest links: nucleotides vulnerable to mutations that affect splicing, Stephen Mount 15.00 - 15.20     Common splicing mutations detected by individual information analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms, Peter Rogan 15.30 - 16.00     Coffee break DEFINITION OF REGULATORY MOTIFS AND PATTERNS Chair: Benoit Chabot 16.00 - 16.40     A predictive model of tissue-dependent alternative splicing, Brendan Frey 16.40 - 17.00     Predicting splicing factor binding sites from their genomic context, Martin Akerman 17.00 - 17.20     Application of Bayesian methods to motif detection in RNA, Ofer Shai 17.20 - 17.40     Multiple classes of human introns revealed by n-mer co-occurrence probabilities and graph clustering, Rodger Voelker 17.40 Conclusion