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'The Nucleolus: New Perspectives'

28 - 29 March | 2006 | York| United Kingdom

 

 Programme

28th March
Session I | Session II

29th March
Session III | Session IV

Tuesday, 28th March

08h50

Welcome: Jo Milner

Session I

The nucleolar proteome and structure.

09h00

Angus Lamond, University of Dundee, UK.

The dynamic nucleolar proteome.

09h45

Peter Shaw, John Innes Center, UK.

Novel functions for the nucleolus from proteomic and RNomic analysis of Arabidopsis nucleoli

10h15

Dennis Lafontaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Birth of a nucleolus: the evolution of nucleolar compartments.

10h45

Morning coffee

11h15

Daniel Hernandez-Verdun, Institut Jacques Monod, France.

Nucleolar assembly and the cell cycle.

11h45

Elisa Varela, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland.
Condensin and nucleolar dynamics through mitosis.

12h15

Craig Pikaard, Washington University, USA.

Epigenetic mechanisms of rRNA gene silencing in nucleolar dominance.

12h45

Lunch

Session II

Protein trafficking to the nucleolus and RNA synthesis and processing.

14h00

Ingrid Grummt, German Cancer Research Center, Germany.

Regulation of ribosomal RNA gene transcription.

14h45

Maria do Carmo-Fonseca, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

A link between the nucleolus and RNA editing.

15h15

Susan Baserga, Yale University, USA.

RNA helicases in the SSU processome.

15h45

Mark Olson, University of Mississippi, USA.

The role of phosphorylation in the dynamics and location of nucleolar proteins during the cell cycle.

16h15

Afternoon tea and Poster Session.

17h30

End of Day One, free time.

19h30

Evening dinner:  National Railway Museum.

Wednesday 29th, March

Session III

Viral Interactions with the Nucleolus

09h00

John Rossi, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, USA.

Inhibiting HIV-1 replication via nucleolar localized RNAs.

09h45

Julian A. Hiscox, University of Leeds, UK.

Trafficking of RNA virus proteins to the nucleolus.

10h15

Adrian Whitehouse, University of Leeds, UK.

Gamma-2 herpesvirus mRNA nuclear export: a possible role for the nucleolus.

10h45

Morning Coffee

11h15

David Matthews, University of Bristol, UK.

The role of the nucleolus in viral DNA replication.

11h45

Michael Taliansky, Scottish Crop Research Institute, UK.

Involvement of the nucleolus in plant virus systemic infection.

12h15

Lunch

Session IV

The nucleolus and cellular disease.

13h30

Carlos Rubbi, University of York, UK.

The nucleolus as a stress sensor.

14h00

Robert Yu-Lin Tsai, Texas A&M University, USA.

Nucleostemin Gene Family: Insights into the nucleolar state of stem and cancer cells

14h30

Robert White, University of Glasgow, UK.

RNA polymerase III transcription, cell growth and cancer.

15h00

Afternoon tea

15h30

Jo Milner, University of York, UK.

The nucleolus, stress and cancer.

16h00

Discussion

19h30

Evening dinner, St Williams College.