Agenda

8:30 - 9:30 am

Registration/Poster setup for Session I)/Coffee

Abby Aldrich Reception

Sponsored by fuRNAce

How Xist silences the X-chromosome

Jeannie Lee, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

10:30 - 11:10 am

Session I

Caspary Auditorium

snoRNA thermo-sensors for the heat shock response

Sally Zhou – University of Chicago

Regulation of miRNA function by RNA duplexes

Daniel Guzmán Gundermann, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

11:15 - 12:35 pm

Poster Session I

Abby Aldrich Dining Room, Welch Hall

12:40 - 1:20 pm

Lunch

Abby Aldrich Dining Room, Welch Hall

1:20 - 3:00 pm

Session II

Abby Aldrich Dining Room, Welch Hall

The strength of a gene’s first 5' splice site is a key determinant of expression

Michael McGurk, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RNA-triggered cell killing using CRISPR synthetic biomolecular condensates

Aditi Trehan – Columbia University

The dsRNA sensor PKR as an RNase L-dependent cell fate switch

Ziqing Ye – Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital

Virus-driven cytoplasmic reorganization reshapes the subcellular RNA landscape

Adam Silhavy – New York University School of Medicine

Dietary arginine drives codon-dependent MHC-I translation and improves immunity in colon tumorigenesis and respiratory viral infection

Qiushuang Wu, PhD – The Rockefeller University

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Coffee break

Abby Aldrich Reception