Program

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Posters: 130cm high x 100cm wide
Selected talks: 17' + 3' for questions
Invited speakers: 27' + 3' for questions
Keynote speakers: 50' + 5' for questions

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Reception and Poster Session 1

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner and Reception 20.30 - 22.00 Poster Session 1 - odd numbers


Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Session 1

RNA editing and modification in humans: disease and therapy
08.45 - 09.00 Welcome 09.00 - 09.30 Eli Eisengerg Profiling the cancer editome 09.30 - 10.00 Michael Jantsch Editing of filamin A controls smooth muscle cell contraction and colitis 10.00 - 10.30 Susana Rodriguez-Navarro RNA structures modulate the expression of the mRNA biogenesis factor Sus1 10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 - 11.20 Rachid Boutoual Adaptive and maladaptive responses triggered by MTO1-dependent hypomodification of mitochondrial tRNAs 11.20 - 11.40 Linda Molla Characterization of APOBEC2's molecular function 11.40 - 12.00 Pavel Ivanov Angiogenin-mediated RNA cleavage in cellular stress adaptation and survival
  12.15 - 13.30	Lunch

Session 2

Adaptive fine tuning of genetic information by RNA editing and modification (I)
13.30 - 14.00 Erez Levanon Editing of retrotransposons by APOBECs and ADARs in genome evolution 14.00 - 14.30 Jin Billy Li Identifying functional A-to-I RNA editing events in Drosophila by evolutionary analyses 14.30 - 15.00 Graziano Pesole Computational investigation of epigenetic regulation mechanisms by simultaneous analysis of genome and transcriptome data
15.00 - 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 - 15.50 Anothony Poole Emergence of slippage-type ‘editing’ revealed by experimental evolution 15.50 - 16.10 Yi Xing The contribution of Alu exons to the human proteome 16.10 - 16.30 Antonio Marco Selection against microRNA target sites
  16.30 - 18.00	Leisure time

Keynote Speaker

18.00 - 19.00 Jianzhi Zhang Diversity in post-transcriptional modifications: adaptive or not?
  19.15 - 20.30	Dinner
  20.30 - 22.00	Poster Session 2 - even numbers

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Session 3

Adaptive fine tuning of genetic information by RNA editing and modification (II)
09.00 - 09.30 Miguel Gallach Adaptive A-to-I RNA editing in Drosophila 09.30 - 10.00 Josh Rosenthal Sepia, pulpo y calamar: los campeones de edicion 10.00 - 10.30 Pablo Vera Mediated Plastid RNA Editing in Plant Immunity
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 - 11.20 Alicia Gallego Elucidating the evolutionary implications of microRNA editing through a deep analysis of mir-376a-1 across human tissues and primate species 11.20 - 11.40 Maria Warnefors Functional contributions of miRNAs to the evolution of mammalian organ development 11.40 - 12.00 Eduardo Larriba Bioinformatic analysis of piRNAs in mouse zygote and gametes reveal new potential origins and functions
  12.15 - 13.30	Lunch

Session 4

Fine tuning and diversification of gene expression (I)
13.30 - 14.00 Yi Tao Yu RNA pseudouridylation and gene regulation 14.00 - 14.30 Thorsten Stafforst Harnessing RNA editing to reprogram mRNA content in specific transcripts 14.30 - 15.00 Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray Regulation of Dnmt2-dependent tRNA methylation by the micronutrient queuine
15.00 - 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 - 15.50 Samson Simon The Brassicaceae self-incompatibility system: where miRNA and siRNA pathways meet 15.50 - 16.10 Alessandro Michienzi ADAR1 restricts the LINE1 retrotransposition in human cell lines 16.10 - 16.30 Lluis Ribas de Pouplana Biological function and evolutionary relevance of ADAT
  16.30 - 18.00	Leisure time

Keynote Speaker

18.00 - 19.00 Gideon Rechavi The expanding epitranscriptome landscape
  20.30 - 22.00	Gala dinner. Restaurant Dukala.

Friday, 20 May 2016

Session 5

Fine tuning and diversification of gene expression (II)
09.00 - 09.30 Salvador Meseguer Stress response mediated by mitochondrial-tRNA modification enzymes and their microRNA regulators 09.30 - 10.00 Nina Papavasiliou RNA editing generates cellular subsets with diverse sequence within populations 10.00 - 10.30 Ayelet Lamm A-to-I RNA editing promotes developmental-stage specific gene and lncRNA expression
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 - 11.20 Matea Hajnic Inosine nucleobase acts as guanine in interactions with amino-acid sidechain analogs 11.20 - 11.40 Sandra Blanco RNA post-transcriptional m5C-methylation in stem cells, stress responses and cancer

2016 Satellite Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution