PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday, June 17
5:30 PM Conference Registration
7:30 PM Welcome Reception / Dinner (Avra Imperial Hotel)
Tuesday, June 18
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 1. ncRNAs throughout evolution
Cecilia Arraiano, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, RNA quality control pathways in prokaryotes
Cynthia Sharma, University of Würzburg, Regulating with RNA in pathogenic ε-proteobacteria
Dónal O'Carroll, University of Edinburgh, RNA-directed transposon silencing
Lin He, University of California Berkeley, Regulation of retrotransposons during evolution
Laura Landweber, Columbia University, Noncoding RNA-mediated complex genome editing in the ciliate Oxytricha
11:00 AM Coffee Break/Poster Viewing (Odd Numbers)
12:00 PM Session 2. short RNA biogenesis and regulation
Dave Bartel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, microRNA-based regulatory mechanisms
Richard Gregory, Boston Children's Hospital, tRNA dysregulation and disease
Sohail Tavazoie, Rockefeller University, tRNA fragments in cancer progression
Joana Vidigal, National Cancer Institute Bethesda, AGO unchained: beyond the miRNA pathway
Beáta Vertessy, FEBS Advanced Course Committee, FEBS activities and programs
2:00 PM Lunch/Informal Discussions
3:30 PM Informal Discussions
7:30 PM Dinner at Local Greek Restaurant/Informal Discussions (buses depart hotel lobby)
Wednesday, June 19
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 3. short RNAs in development & disease
Brenda Bass, University of Utah,Divergent Roles of Dicer’s Helicase Domain in Antiviral Defense
Simon Conn, Flinders University Adelaide, Circular RNAs as Trojan Horses of Oncogenesis
Jun-An Chen, Academia Sinica, microRNA-mediated control of developing neurons
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Thessaly, Computational analyses of microRNA functions
Philippe Batut, Columbia University, BREAKING NEWS: Non-coding RNAs and genome organization control the dynamics of gene expression during development
11:00 AM Coffee Break/Poster Viewing (Even Numbers)
12:00 PM Session 4. mRNA metabolism
Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester, FMRP function in health and disease
Javier Caceres, MRC Inst Genetics & Mol Medicine Edinburgh, Turnover of non-coding RNAs
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Aberrantly spliced surface proteoforms in cancer
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell College of Medicine, RNA Isoform regulation across mammalian brain regions, post-natal development and species
Manolis Maragkakis, National Institute on Aging Baltimore, BREAKING NEWS: Single-cell nanopore sequencing uncovers coding and non-coding isoform dynamics in the aging brain
2:00 PM Lunch/Informal Discussions
3:30 PM Informal Discussions
7:30 PM Dinner at Local Greek Restaurant /Informal Discussions (buses depart hotel lobby)
Thursday, June 20
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 5. lncRNA in development & disease
Myriam Gorospe, National Institute on Aging Baltimore, Aging-associated non-coding RNAs
Josh Mendell, UT Southwestern, New functions for noncoding RNAs in mammals
Igor Ulitsky, Weizmann Institute, Cis-acting gene regulation by long noncoding RNAs
Nadya Dimitrova, Yale University, Malat1 lncRNA and lung cancer microenvironment
Martin Crespi, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, BREAKING NEWS: Long non coding RNAs modulate alternative splicing regulations in the plant transcriptome
11:00 AM Coffee Break/Poster Viewing (Odd Numbers)
12:00 PM Session 6. Novel technologies for RNA studies
Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbrück Center for Mol Medicine Berlin, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Zissimos Mourelatos, University of Pennsylvania, mRNA Decay
Ryan Flynn, Harvard University, glycoRNA biology on the cell surface
Ophir Shalem, University of Pennsylvania, Pooled gene tagging and in-situ sequencing for unbiased exploration of protein-RNA subcellular landscape
Daniel Cifuentes, Boston University, BREAKING NEWS: RBPscan: Quantitative and sequence-specific measurement of RNA-protein interactions in vivo
2:00 PM Lunch/Informal Discussions
3:30 PM Chania City Tour (buses depart hotel lobby)
7:30 PM Dinner at Greek Restaurant in Harbour /Informal Discussions (buses do not return to the hotel prior to dinner)
Friday, June 21
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 7. Short presentations by FEBS and Aegean Conferences Awardees
Hana Cahova, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Prague, BREAKING NEWS: Dinucleoside polyphosphate RNA capping in bacteria and mammalian cells
Evgenia Ntini, IMBB-FORTH Heraklion, BREAKING NEWS: Unraveling the impact of chromatin dissociation dynamics of lncRNAs in gene expression regulation
TBA 10 short talks by Young Investigators
11:00 AM Coffee Break/Poster Viewing (Even Numbers)
12:00 PM Session 8. RNA biomarkers & therapeutics
Jochen Imig, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Dortmund, BREAKING NEWS: LncRNA GRASLND affects Melanoma Cell Growth, Phenotypic Switch and Immunogenicity
Prashant Mali, University of California San Diego, Enhancing in vivo DNA and RNA Editing
Johnathan Hall, ETH Zurich, Development of Short Oligonucleotides to Inhibit the Functions of RNA-Binding Proteins
Anastasia Khvorova, UMASS, Chemical engineering of therapeutic RNAs
Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Preclinical Screening of Splice-Switching ASO
2:00 PM Lunch/Informal Discussions
3:30 PM Informal Discussions
8:00 PM Farewell Dinner (Avra Imperial Hotel)
Saturday, June 22
7:30 AM Breakfast
12:00 PM Departure