Symposium program

The 3rd Annual Symposium

Center for RNA Biology and Medicine

Highlander Union Building, room 302

8:30am-5pm

Symposium Schedule

Schedule subject to change

8:30-9:05am	Registration - Badge Pickup - Poster set-up
9:05-9:10am	Symposium opens, "Welcome Address" Rodolfo H. Torres, PhD., Vice Chancellor for Research
9:10-9:15am	Update on Center for RNA Biology & Medicine Sika Zheng, PhD., Founding Director, RNA Biology and Medicine Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine
9:15-10:15am	Keynote speaker Lynne E. Maquat, PhD. J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology University of Rochester Medical Center “Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human health and disease: Reframing the role of FMRP in Fragile X Syndrome”
10:15-10:25am	Group Photo
10:25-10:45am	Coffee break
Session I: RNA Splicing	Session I Chair: Adam Norris, PhD.
10:45-11:20am	Tracy Johnson, PhD. Dean of the Life Sciences Division Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology University of California, Los Angeles "RNA splicing, chromatin modification, and the coordinated control of gene expression"
11:20-11:55am	Klemens Hertel, PhD. Professor, & Chair Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine "The influence of RNA splicing in cancer and metabolism"
11:55am-1:15pm	Lunch and poster presentations
Session II: Long noncoding RNAs and Transposons	Session II Chair: Karine Le Roch
1:15-1:50pm	Daniel Lim, MD., PhD. Marjorie B. Hines Professor of Neurosurgery Vice Chair for Research Department of Neurological Surgery Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research University of California, San Francisco "lncRNA Pnky in the brain: from stem cells to RNA structure"
1:50-2:25pm	Kathrin Plath, PhD. Professor Department of Biological Chemistry University of California, Los Angeles "Unraveling XIST: Mechanisms of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation"
2:25-3pm	Lin He, PhD. Professor & Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research University of California, Berkeley "Friends or foes, transposons in the mammalian genome"
3-3:35pm	Afternoon break and poster presentations
Session III: miRNA and RNAi	Session III Chair: Changcheng Zhou, PhD.
3:35-4:10pm	Amy Pasquinelli, PhD. Professor Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of California, San Diego "Less Stress with miRNAs"
4:10-4:45pm	Shou-wei Ding, PhD. Distinguished Professor University of California, Riverside "Novel strategy for RNA-based antiviral vaccines"
4:45-5pm	Award announcements and closing remarks