Program, June 27th

07.30 - 08.30               Registration

 

09.00 - 09.00               Opening

 

keynote lecture

 

09.15 - 10.15               Kiyoshi Nagai. Structure of the spliceosomal U1 snRNP

 

10.15 - 10.45               Coffee break

 

Regulation and Structure I

 

10.45 - 11.05               Joao Tavanez. HnRNP A1 confers specificity to 3' splice site recognition by U2AF

 

11.05 - 11.25               Vladimir Pena. Structure reveals functions at the core of the spliceosome

 

11.25 - 11.45               Mireya Plass. Role of RNA secondary structure in 3'ss regulation in yeast

 

11.45 - 12.30               Michael Sattler. Structural biology and dynamics in the regulation of pre-mRNA splicing

 

12.30 - 13.40               Lunch break

 

Regulation and Structure II

 

13.40 - 14.00               Quaid Morris. RNAcompete: a fast and inexpensive method for comprehensively assaying the binding preferences of RNA-binding proteins

 

14.00 - 14.20               Markus Blatter. NMR structure of hnRNP L in complex with RNA

 

14.20 - 14.40               Monika Heiner. The heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein L-like, a master regulator of alternative splicing in immune cell development?

 

14.40 - 15.25               Gabriele Varani. Recognition of transcription termination signals by RNA processing factors

 

15.30 - 16.00               Coffee break

 

Regulation and Networks I

 

16.00 - 16.20               Andreas Dahlgren (Illumina). Illumina Genome Analyzer System

 

16.20 - 17.05               Ben Blencowe. Alternative splicing regulatory networks

 

17.10 - 18.30               Poster session 

 

followed by                  Conference dinner


Program, June 28th

 

Regulation and Networks II

 

09.00 - 09.45              Barbara Wold. RNA-Seq analysis of mammalian transcriptomes and their relationship to regulatory networks

 

09.45 - 10.05              Rickard Sandberg. MRNA-sequence analyses of tissue transcriptomes reveals compositional differences and isoform regulation

 

10.15 - 10.45               Coffee break               

 

Comparative Analyses

 

10.45 - 11.05               Chris Lee. Predicting functional alternative splicing by measuring RNA selection pressure from 28 vertebrate genomes

 

11.05 - 11.25               Ernesto Picardi. A survey of alternative splicing in Vitis vinifera and assesment by Illumina short sequencing reads

 

11.25 - 11.45               Martin Pohl. Computational analysis shows mutually exclusive exons are predominantly not adjacent to each other and can be spliced as clusters

 

11.45 - 12.30               Gene Yeo. Analysis of RNA binding maps

 

12.30 - 14.00               Lunch break

 

Specific Mechanisms of Regulation

 

14.00 - 14.20               Andrew Berglund. The mechanisms of MBNL1 regulated splicing and small molecule that reverses the splicing defects associated with myotonic dystrophy

 

14.20 - 14.40               Minna-Liisa Anko. SRp75 and SRp20 regulate gene expression by binding to specific transcripts

 

14.40 – 15.00              Mikko Frilander. Cellular U11 snRNP levels regulates evolutionary conserved alternative splicing of U11/U12-48K and -65K genes

 

Genome Wide Analyses

 

15.00 – 15.20              Gary P. Schroth (Illumina). Improved RNA Analysis Methods for the Illumina Genome Analyzer

 

15.30 - 16.00               Coffee break

 

16.00- 16.20                Asim Siddiqui. (Applied Biosystems). Detecting known and novel splicing events in the human transcriptome by high throughput sequencing

 

16.20 - 16.45               Mohsen Khorshid. Transcriptome-wide miRNA-target site identification by direct sequencing of Argonaute-bound mRNA segments

 

16.45 - 17.05               Hagen Tilgner. Nucleosome Positioning is a determinant of Exon recognition

           

17.05 - 17.25               Michael Tress. Confirming Alternative protein isoforms in Drosophila

 

17.25 - 18.10               Jernej Ule. The evolution of functional interactions between TDP-43 and pre-mRNAs

 

18.15                           Conclusion