In the last years, our knowledge of RNA-regulated processes like microRNA-mediated gene expression control, alternative splicing and RNA editing has noticeably expanded. Understanding the scope, mechanisms and evolutionary patterns of such molecular porcesses has emerged as a new challenge in biology, medicine, and evolution. The objective of this workshop is to bring together molecular and evolutionary biologists to discuss the variability of the RNA processing mechanisms, their adaptive roles and the promise of next generation sequencing technologies in order to study their impact in genome evolution.

Confirmed invited speakers

Jianzhi Zhang. University of Michigan, USA
Jin Billy Li. Stanford University, USA
Gideon Rechavi. Tel Aviv University, Israel
Josh Rosenthal. Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico
Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Ayelet Lamm. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Yi Tao Yu. University of Rochester, USA
Salvador Meseguer. Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Spain
Susana Rodriguez-Navarro. Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Spain
Thorsten Stafforst. Tubingen University, Germany
Graziano Pesole. University of Bari, Italy
Erez Levanon. Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Nina Papavasiliou. The Rockefeller University, USA
Pablo Vera. Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas - IBMCP/CSIC, Spain
Eli Eisenberg. Tel Aviv University, Israel

Organizing Committe

Miguel Gallach. Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna (CIBIV). Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL). Austria
Arndt von Haeseler. Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna (CIBIV). Max F. Perutz Laboratories. (MFPL). Austria
Michael Jantsch. Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL). Medical University of Vienna. Austria
Manuel Perez Alonso. Department of Genetics. University of Valencia. Spain

Sponsorship and Support

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
University of Valencia.
RNA Biology Doctoral Program - MFPL.
RNA Biology Journal.
Lexogen.
Genetica medica news.