The Non-Coding Genome

Overview

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Symposium Overview

In the 50 years since RNA was identified as a central component in the flow of genetic information, it has become increasingly clear that RNA performs many additional diverse and interesting functions. Regulatory RNAs are known to play central roles across numerous biological processes required for cell viability and function. Moreover, prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes are pervasively transcribed to generate many additional RNAs with unknown functions, raising the question: What else does RNA do?

This symposium will explore the diverse, dynamic and multifaceted roles of RNA across a spectrum of cellular processes. It will provide an interdisciplinary discussion of the roles of non-coding RNAs in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, with the aim of enhancing our understanding of gene regulation and function.

Session Topics

• Non-coding RNAs in prokaryotes
• miRNA functions and mechanisms
• piRNAs, other types of eukaryotic small RNAs (including tRF), transcriptional silencing
• circRNAs
• Structure-function, evolution, modifications, ncRNA RBPs
• ncRNA therapeutics
• Long non-coding RNAs

Speakers

Speakers

Simon Alberti

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Germany

David Bartel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

USA

Cristian Bellodi

Lund University

Sweden

Irene Bozzoni

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy

Ling-Ling Chen

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

China

Stefano Gustincich

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Italy

Maite Huarte

University of Navarra

Spain

V. Narry Kim

Institute for Basic Science

South Korea

Jørgen Kjems

Aarhus University

Denmark

Ruth Lehmann

New York University School of Medicine

USA

Hanah Margalit

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israel

Eric Massé

Université de Sherbrooke

Canada

Gunter Meister

Universität Regensburg

Germany

Eric Miska

University of Cambridge

UK

Roy Parker

University of Colorado Boulder

USA

Anna Marie Pyle

Yale University

USA

Nikolaus Rajewsky

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Germany

John Rinn

University of Colorado Boulder

USA

Claire Rougeulle

Université de Paris

France

Alena Shkumatava

Institut Curie

France

Frank Slack

Harvard Medical School

USA

Didier Stainier

Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research

Germany

Gisela Storz

National Institutes of Health,

USA

Igor Ulitsky

Weizmann Institute of Science

Israel

Jörg Vogel

University of Würzburg

Germany

Scientific Organisers

Irene Bozzoni

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy

V. Narry Kim

Institute for Basic Science

South Korea

John Rinn

University of Colorado Boulder

USA

Jörg Vogel

University of Würzburg

Germany

Conference Organisers

George Luca-Ruse

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme