Symposium Program and Schedule

2023 Symposium Center for RNA in Biology and Medicine Program and Schedule

Friday, November 3, 2023
Genomics Auditorium and Lobby, UC Riverside

Don W. Cleveland

Keynote Speaker: Don Cleveland, PhD.

Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego

2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

"Designer DNA Drug Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease”

Symposium Schedule

Schedule subject to change

8:30-9:10a.m.	Registration. Badge pick-up. Poster set-up.
9:10a.m.	Symposium Opens Welcome and Introduction to Center for RNA in Biology & Medicine Sika Zheng, PhD., Director, Center for RNA in Biology & Medicine Professor, Division of Biomedical Sciences School of Medicine, University California, Riverside
9:10-9:15a.m.	Welcome Address Rodolfo H. Torres, PhD., Vice Chancellor, Research & Economic Development University of California, Riverside
9:20-10:20a.m.	Keynote Speaker "Designer DNA Drug Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease" Don Cleveland, PhD., Distinguished Professor and Chair Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California, San Diego 2018 Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
10:20-10:25a.m.	Group Photo
10:25-10:45a.m.	Coffee Break
	Session I: RNA Processing and Quality Control Chair, Maria Ninova, PhD. Assistant Professor Biochemistry Department, UC Riverside
10:45-11:20a.m.	"mRNA 3' processing and deflation" Yongsheng Shi, PhD., Professor & Chancellor's Fellow Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
11:20-11:55a.m.	"Small non-coding RNA quality control in gene expression and disease" Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD., Professor Department of Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego
11:55am-1:15p.m.	Lunch and Poster Presentations
	Session II: Translation Chair, Sean O'Leary, PhD., Assistant Professor Biochemistry Department, UC Riverside
1:15-1:50p.m.	"The exquisite choreography of translation initiation" Jody Puglisi, PhD., Jauch Professor Department of Structural Biology Stanford University
1:50-2:25p.m.	"The cellular impact and regulation of long undecoded transcript isoform production and destruction" Gloria Brar, PhD, Associate Professor Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley
2:25-3:05p.m.	Afternoon Break and Poster Session
	Session III: RNA in Diseases Chair, Djurdjica Coss, PhD, Professor Division of Biomedical Sciences, UC Riverside
3:05-3:40p.m.	"RNA Modifications in Nucleotide Repeat Expansion Diseases" Yinsheng Wang, PhD., Distinguished Professor Chemistry Department University of California, Riverside
3:40-4:15p.m.	"Posttranscriptional regulation of RNA splicing in leukemia" Lili Wang, PhD., Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center
4:15-4:50p.m.	"Buffering of transcription rate by mRNA half-life in Rett syndrome neurons and in neurodevelopment" James Ellis, PhD., Senior Scientist Developmental and Stem Cell Biology SickKids Research Institute
4:50-5:00p.m.	Award announcements and closing remarks