Conference Series

European Molecular Biology Organization

 

Intracellular RNA Localization

& Localized Translation

7 - 12 August, 2011 | Barga, Tuscany| Italy

Programme

 

August 7 | August 8 | August 9 | August 10 | August 11 | August 12

 

August 7
 

Afternoon

Arrival, registration

 

18:00

Cocktail

 

19:00-19:15

Opening Remarks

 

19:15-20:15

Keynote lecture
Chaired by: Joel Richter, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
Matthias Hentze, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Regulatory RNA-binding proteins: from mechanistic reductionism to complete mRNA interactomes

 

20:30

Dinner

     
August 8
 

Session I: Post-Transcriptional gene regulation mechanisms
Chaired by: Martine Simonelig, CNRS, Montpellier

 

09:00-09:30

Joel Richter, UMass Medical School, Worcester
CPEB Control of mRNA Localization and Cell Polarity

 

09:30-10:00

Anne Ephrussi, EMBL, Heidelberg
oskar RNP assembly and transport in the Drosophila oocyte

 

10:00-10:30

Paul Macdonald, University of Texas, Austin
Regulation of, and by, Oskar mRNA

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

10:00-11:30

Paul Lasko, McGill University, Montreal
 A role for variant ribosomes in germline development

 

11:30-11:45

Chao Jeffrey, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
ZBP1 KH34 consensus RNA-binding site identifies post-transcriptional regulatory networks

 

11:45-12:00

Antonia Ratti, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, University of Milan Medical School
Post-transcriptional regulation of VEGF and PGRN gene expression by TDP-43 RNA-binding protein

 

12:00-12:15

Dierk Niessing, Institute of Structural Biology,Helmholtz Zentrum, München
Specific recognition of mRNAs for thei localization is achieved during the final mRNP maturation step in the cytoplasm

 

12:15-12:30

Mordechai Choder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
"Mating bodies" function in mRNA transport, localization and local translation during mating in yeast

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:00

Free Discussion

 

SESSION II: NON CODING RNAs
CHAIRED BY: CATHERINE RABOUILLE, HUBRECHT INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AND STEM CELL RESEARCH, UTRECHT

 

15:00-15:30

William Theurkauf, University of Massachusetts Medical School
UAP56 links heterochomatic clusters to the perinuclear piRNA biogenesis machinery

 

15:30-16:00

Martine Simonelig, Institut de Genetique Humaine/CNRS, Montpellier
mRNA regulation by deadenylation in the Drosophila germline and early embryo

 

16:00-16:30

Haifan Lin, Yale University, New Haven
The Yb Body, a Major Site for piRNA Biogenesis and a Gateway for Piwi Expression and Transport to the Nucleus in Somatic Cells

 

16:30-17:00

Break

 

17:00-17:30

Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
GW182 proteins recruit cytoplasmic deadenylase complexes to miRNA targets

 

17:30-17:45

Michael Blower, Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Genetics Department, Boston
ESCRT-II links RNA localization to endosomal trafficking

 

17:45-18:00

Kim Raab-Graham, University of Texas at Austin
mTOR Serves as a Switch for Dendritic Excitability by the Reversible binding of miR-129 and HuD to Kv1.1 mRNA

 

18:00-18:30

Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine
Translational repression in germ line development

 

18:30-20:30

Poster Session I (red)

 

20:30

Dinner

     
August 9
 

SESSION III: RNA BIOINFORMATICS, LOCALIZATION SIGNALS AND mRNP STRUCTURE
CHAIRED BY: HAIFAN LIN, YALE UNIVERSITY

 

09:00-09:30

Yishi Jin, University of California, San Diego
Local translation in axon regeneration in C. elegans

 

09:30-10:00

Cedric Notredame, Centro de Regulacio Genomica, Barcelona
Finding and Multiply Aligning RNA sequences

 

10:00-10:15

Stewart Stevens, University of Otago, Dunedin
Bioinformatic approaches to the identification of localisation elements.

 

10:15-10:30

Fulvia Bono, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
Structural studies of the cup-eIF4E complex

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

 

SESSION  IV: NEW FRONTIERS IN IMAGING VISUALIZING RNA LOCALIZATION IN LIVING CELLS
CHAIRED BY: TALILA VOLK, WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, REVOHOT

 

11:00-11:30

Ernst Stelzer, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) reduces phototoxic effects providing new means for modern life sciences

 

11:30-12:00

David Ish-Horowicz, CR-UK London Research Institute
Genetic screen for novel factors regulating gurken transcript localisation in the Drosophila oocyte

 

12:00-12:15

Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx
Toward a unified walking model for cytoplasmic dynein

 

12:15-12:30

Jason Casolari, Stanford University
Live-Cell Super-Localization Microscopy of Localized mRNA Dynamics

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:30-16:30

Hot Topic Session

 

16:30-19:00

Poster Session II (green)

 

19:00-20:30

Dinner

     
August 10
 

SESSION V: CELL POLARITY AND DEVELOPMENT I
CHAIRED BY: ARNE GENNERICH, ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICIN, BRONX

 

09:00-09:30

Catherine Rabouille, Hubrecht Institute for developmental biology and stem cell research, Utrecht
dgrasp mRNA expression and localisation in the Drosophila epithelium during remodeling

 

09:30-10:00

Elisabeth Gavis, Princeton University
Function and regulation of Nanos and Pumilio in neuronal morphogenesis

 

10:00-10:30

Kimberly Mowry, Brown University
Directing Traffic during RNA Localization in the Cell Cytoplasm

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College Dublin
mRNA regulation at identified synapses during learning

 

11:30-11:45

Michael Sheets, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spatially regulated translation by Bicaudal-C controls Nodal signaling and cell fate determination during vertebrate development

 

11:45-12:00

Naohito Takatori, Osaka University
The mechanism of polarized nuclear migration that separates mesoderm and endoderm fates in ascidian embryos

 

12:00-13:00

Lunch

 

13:00-18:30

Excursion

 

SESSION  VI: mRNPs LOCALIZATION, MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
CHAIRED BY: KIMBERLY MOWRY, BROWN UNIVERSITY

 

18:30-19:00

Akira Nakamura, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe
Protection of germ plasm RNAs from miRNA-mediated degradation in Drosophila primordial germ cells

 

19:00-19:30

Talila Volk, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovat
MAPK/ERK-dependent phosphorylation of Held Out Wing (HOW) alters its activity in controlling RNA metabolism

 

19:30-20:00

Ilan Davis, University of Oxford
The mechanism of mRNA transport and localised translation in the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

 

20:00-20:15

Orna Amster-Choder, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Translation-independent localization of mRNA in E. coli

 

20:15-20:30

Tomas Aragon, Center for Applied Medical Research, Pamplona
Targeting of HAC1 mRNA to endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling foci

 

20:30

Dinner

   
August 11
 

SESSION VII: mRNA LOCALIZATION AND TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL IN NEURONS
CHAIRED BY: PETER SARNOW, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

 

09:00-09:30

Kelsey Martin, UCLA
Synapse-specific translational regulation

 

09:30-10:00

Christine Holt, University of Cambridge
RNA-based control of axon guidance

 

10:00-10:30

Claudia Bagni, Catholic University of Leuven/University of Rome Tor Vergata
mRNA metabolism in Fragile X related diseases

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

Michael Kiebler, Medical University of Vienna
Neuronal RNA granules and their role in dendritic RNA localization

 

11:30-12:00

Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
The local transcriptome in hippocampal neurons

 

12:00-12:15

Catia Andreassi, University College London
NGF-dependent mRNA localization in axons of primary sympathetic neurons

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:30-16:00

Business Meeting

 

SESSION VIII: CELL POLARITY AND DEVELOPMENT II
CHAIRED BY: CHRISTINE HOLT, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

 

16:00-16:30

Oswald Steward, University of California, Irvine
Title missing

 

16:30-17:00

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge
Cell polarization dependent asymmetric inheritance of mRNA for Cdx2 during the first fate decision in the mouse embryo

 

17:00-17:30

Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
In vivo and in vitro assays reveal complex interplay between different microtubule-based motors on single mRNA molecules

 

17:30-18:00

Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto
Post-transcriptional Control During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila

 

19:30

Farewell Banquet

     
August 12
 

SESSION IX: RNA TRANSPORT, TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL AND DISEASE
CHAIRED BY: ELISABETH GAVIS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

 

09:00-10:00

Keynote lecture
Roy Parker, University of Arizona, Tucson
The eukaryotic mRNA cycle:  Movement of yeast mRNAs between polysomes, stress granules, and P-bodies and its role in the control of translation and degradation

 

10:00-10:30

Peter Sarnow, Stanford University
Modulation of Hepatitis C Virus and Insig1 RNA Abundances by a Specialized MicroRNA 122 Complex

 

10:30-11:00

Melissa Moore, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
Ribonucleoprotein export via nuclear envelope budding

 

11:00-11:15

Ranjan Perera, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando
The melanoma-upregulated long noncoding RNA SPRY4-IN1 modulates apoptosis and invasion

 

11:15-11:30

Claudia Fallini, Emory University, Atlanta
The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Disease Protein SMN Associates with mRNA-Binding Proteins and Regulates the Assembly and Transport of RNA Granules in Motor Neuron Axons

 

11:30-12:00

Discussion and closing remarks

 

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