#NYCRNASymposium
Agenda
8:30 - 9:30 am
Registration and Poster setup and Coffee
Sponsored by ThermoFisher
9:30 - 9:40 am
Opening Remarks
9:40 - 11 am
Session I - selected from submitted abstracts
Noncoding RNAs and genome organization control the dynamics of gene
expression during development
Philippe Batut, PhD – Columbia University
Transcriptome-scale RNA-targeting CRISPR screens reveal essential lncRNAs in
human cells
Wen-Wei Liang, PhD – New York Genome Center
Stable intron lariats can repress the transcription of their parent genes
Adam Haimowitz – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Precise tuning of pre-mRNA splicing through intramolecular base pairing within
introns
Leonard Schärfen – Yale University
11:00 - 12:15 pm
Poster Session I - Odd numbers
12:30 - 1 pm
Lunch
Sponsored by Illumina
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Keynote Speaker - Rachel Green, PhD
Concentration matters: regulation in cells of ribosome homeostasis
2:00 - 2:40 pm
Session II - selected from submitted abstracts
RNA slicing by human Argonaute2
Peter Wang – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How an infectious RNA folds to resist the host degradation machinery
Jeanine Gezelle – Columbia University
2:40 - 3:00 pm
Coffee break
Sponsored by NEB
3:00 - 4:20 pm
Session III - selected from submitted abstracts
Evolutionary origins of archaeal and eukaryotic RNA-guided RNA modification in
bacterial IS110 transposons
Chance Meers, PhD – Columbia University
An HIV-1 encoded viral circular RNA enhances HIV-1 transcription
Prisca Obi – Yale University
The ribosome is the m6A reader for mRNA degradation
Shino Murakami, PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine
The FXR1 network acts as signaling scaffold for actomyosin remodeling
Xiuzhen Chen, PhD – Sloan Kettering Institute
4:20 - 5:45 pm
Poster Session II - Even numbers
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Happy Hour
Sponsored by NEB
6:30 pm
Poster Prizes
sponsored by RNA Society