CIG symposium 2024
Title: Novelties in the RNA world
Dates: June 13-14 2024
Organizers: Isabel Lopez Mejia & Jean-Yves Roignant
Wednesday June 12, 2024
“John Grace lecture”
by Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
"The magic of RNA: New medicines and the power to control evolution"
PROGRAM CIG Symposium 2024 “Novelties in the RNA world”
Thursday June 13, 2024
9:30 Welcome
Session 1 – RNA-binding Proteins and RNA fate
9:40-10:25 Matthias Hentze, EMBL Heidelberg (DE)
"Riboregulation: Biology, mechanisms and scope"
10:25-11:10 Jernej Ule, UK Dementia Research Institute (UK)
"RNA multivalency enables homeostatic co-regulation of LCD-containing proteins"
11:10-11:30 Break
11:30-11:50 Short talk selected from the abstracts
Madalena Pinto, UNIBAS
"The regulatory landscape of 5′ UTRs in translational control during zebrafish
embryogenesis"
11:50-12:10 Short talk selected from the abstracts
David Taborsky, UNIZH
"Single-cell CRISPR screen uncovers translational regulators of mesodermal lineage
commitment in gastruloids"
12:10-13:30 Lunch and Poster session
Session 2 – Small RNAs and other Non-coding RNAs
13:30-14:15 Narry Kim, Seoul National University (KR)
"mRNA stability control: Lessons from viruses and RNA therapeutics"
14:15-15:00 Luisa Cochella, J. Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA)
"Roles of microRNAs in animal embryogenesis"
15:00-15:20 Short talk selected from the abstracts
Isabel Chillon, IGMM CNRS
"Conservation and structural architecture of a functional lncRNA-protein interaction"
15:20-15:50 Break
Session 3 – RNA modifications
15:50-16:35 Chuan He, University of Chicago (USA)
"Chromatin regulation by RNA methylation"
16:35-17:20 Irene Bozzoni, University of Rome (IT)
"RNA-RNA interactions in physiological and pathological processes"
17:20-17:40 Short talk selected from the abstracts
Clément Carré, Sorbonne Université
"The RNA MethylTransferase enzyme FTSJ1: conserved role in neuron morphology
and learning performance"
Friday June 14, 2024
Session 4 – mRNA life cycle
9:00-9:45 Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
"Does RNA control gene expression in the human cell nucleus?"
9:45-10:30 Mounia Lagha, IGMM Montpellier (FR)
"Imaging the central dogma in embryos, one molecule at a time"
10:30-10:50 Break
10:50-11:35 Clemens Plaschka, IMP (AT)
"How to prepare messenger RNA for export"
11:35-12:20 Christine Mayr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
"mRNAs acting as chaperones for disordered regions during protein synthesis"
12:20-13:30 Lunch & poster session
Session 5 – Translation
13:30-14:15 Can Cenik, University of Texas Austin (USA)
"An integrative approach to predictive modeling and single-cell measurements of translation"
14:15-15:00 Maria Barna, Stanford University (USA)
"Ribosomes in Gene Regulation: Controlling the diversity of proteins made in
specific cells, tissues and organisms"
15:00-15:45 Samir Ounzain, Haya Therapeutics SA, Lausanne (CH)
"Unlocking the regulatory genome: Pioneering RNA-guided therapeutics for
cell-state modulation in disease pathogenesis"
15:45-16:00 Concluding remarks
