Chris Burge (Keynote speaker) *
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA "Global patterns in Condition- and Tissue- specific RNA processing"
Brenton Graveley *
University of Connecticut Stem Cell Institute and
Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT "A Functional Exploration of the Eukaryotic mRNA Processing Machinery"
Donny D. Licatalosi*
The Rockefeller University
New York City, NY "Mechanisms of alternative mRNA processing in the brain revealed by HITS-CLIP(I)"
Xiang-Dong Fu*
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA "Digital analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing by high throughput sequencing"
Frédéric Allain (EURASNET speaker)*
ETH
Switzerland "RRM-RNA complexes - toward an RRM-RNA recognition code?"
Javier Caceres (EURASNET speaker)*
MRC Human Genetics Unit
Scotland "Pre-mRNA splicing factors: old players in new games"
Hermona Soreq *
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel "Identifying Alternative Hyper-Splicing Signatures in MG-Thymoma by Exon Arrays"
Benoit Chabot*
Universitè de Sherbrooke
Canada "Alternative splicing markers in cancer and their regulation by RNA binding proteins"
Brendan Frey*
University of Toronto
Canada "A predictive model of tissue-dependent alternative splicing"