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RNA 2009 Conference Schedule

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Tuesday, May 26th    
12 noon – 7:30 pm Registration Main Lounge
12noon – 11:00 pm Set-up Posters (#164 – 305) Great Hall & Reception Room
5:00 – 7:30 pm Welcome Reception Tripp Commons
7:30 – 7:40 pm Welcome Union Theater
7:40 – 10:00 pm Session I: Keynote Lectures Union Theater
Shiv Grewal
RNAi-Mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome
Robert Darnell
Decoding Protein-RNA Regulation With HITS-CLIP Maps
Wednesday, May 27th    
7:30 am – 8:00 pm Registration Continues Annex Room
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Session II: Union Theater
RNA-Protein Complexes-I
Utz Fischer, Chair
See Abstracts 3 – 13
12:30 – 2:00 pm  Lunch Buffets Inn Wisconsin
12:30 – 2:00 pm Board of Directors Lunch Browsing Library
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session III-A:  Union Theater
Splicing Mechanisms
Jean Beggs, Chair
See Abstracts 14 – 24
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session III-B:  3650 Humanities
RNA Turnover
Elmar Wahle, Chair
See Abstracts 25 – 35
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop IV-A: Union Theater
Methods for RNA Science
David Rueda, Chair
See Abstracts 36 – 40
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop IV-B: 3650 Humanities
RNA Editing
Dee Scadden, Chair
See Abstracts 41 – 45
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop IV-C: 2650 Humanities
Viral RNAs
Jeffrey Kieft, Chair
See Abstracts 46 – 50
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop IV-D: Playcircle Theater
3D Modeling
Alain Laederach, Moderator
Eric Westhof, Université de Strasbourg
François Major, Université de Montréal
John SantaLucia, Wayne State University
Samuel C. Flores, Stanford University
Magdalena Jonikas, Stanford University
6:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner Buffets Inn Wisconsin
7:30 – 9:00 pm Post Doc and Graduate Student Social Hour Main Lounge
8:30 – 10:30 pm Poster Session 1  
Abstracts (164 – 305)
Posters will be displayed for ONE day. All posters must be removed at the end of each poster session.  
Great Hall & Reception Room (4th floor)
Bioinformatics (164 – 168)
Editing, Modification and 3’ End Formation (169 – 176)
Methods for RNA Science (177 – 183)
Interconnections Between Gene Expression Processes (184 – 186)
Non-coding and Regulatory RNAs and Their Mechanism of Action (187 – 203)
Ribosomes and Translation (204 – 221)
RNA and Disease and Viral RNAs (222 – 233)
RNA Structure, Folding, and Catalysis (234 – 249)
RNA Transport, Localization and Turnover (250 – 264)
RNPs and RNA-Protein Interactions (265 – 277)
Splicing Mechanisms (278 – 286)
Splicing Regulation (287 – 298)
tRNA, snoRNA and rRNA (299 – 305)
Thursday, May 28th    
8:00 am – 8:00 pm Registration Continues Annex Room
8:00 am – 8:00 pm Set-up Posters (#306 – 446) Great Hall & Reception Room
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Session V:  Union Theater
RNA and Disease
Adrian Krainer, Chair
See Abstracts 51 – 61
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch Buffets Inn Wisconsin
12:30 – 2:00 pm Mentor-Mentee Lunch* Lowell Hall
Rachel Green & Jamie Williamson, Chairs
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session VI-A: Union Theater
Small RNAs
Haruhiko Siomi, Chair
See Abstracts 62 – 72
2:00 – 5:00 pm SessionVI-B: 3650 Humanities
Ribosomes and Translation
James Williamson, Chair
See Abstracts 73 – 83
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop VII-A: Union Theater
Catalytic RNAs
Martha Fedor, Chair
See Abstracts 84 – 88
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop VII-B: 3650 Humanities
3’ End Formation
Willian Marzluff, Chair
See Abstracts 89 – 93
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop VII-C: 2650 Humanities
Bioinformatics
Neocles Leontis, Chair
See Abstracts 94 – 97
7:00 – 8:30 pm Dinner Buffets  Inn Wisconsin
7:00 – 8:30 pm RNA & Society Dinner* Concourse Hotel
Keith Yamamoto, Keynote Speaker
8:30 – 10:30 pm Poster Session 2  
Abstracts (306 – 446)
Posters will be displayed for ONE day. All posters must be removed at the end of each poster session.  
Great Hall & Reception Room (4th floor)
Bioinformatics (306 – 310)
Editing, Modification and 3’ End Formation (311 – 318)
Methods for RNA Science (319 – 324)
Interconnections Between Gene Expression Processes (325 – 327)
Non-coding and Regulatory RNAs and Their Mechanism of Action (328 – 344)
Ribosomes and Translation (345 – 361)
RNA and Disease and Viral RNAs (362 – 374)
RNA Structure, Folding, and Catalysis (375 – 391)
RNA Transport, Localization and Turnover (392 – 406)
RNPs and RNA-Protein Interactions (407 – 419)
Splicing Mechanisms (420 – 428)
Splicing Regulation (429 – 440)
tRNA, snoRNA and rRNA (441 – 446)
Friday, May 29th    
8:00 am – 8:00 pm Set-up Posters (#447 – 587) Great Hall & Reception Room
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Session VIII: Union Theater
RNA Structure and Folding
Kathleen Hall, Chair
See Abstracts 98 – 108
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch Buffets Inn Wisconsin
12:30 – 2:00 pm Meetings Committee Lunch Browsing Library
12:45 – 2:00 pm Intellectual Property Issues Lunch Old Madison
Introduction by Dan Golden
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session IX-A: Union Theater
Interconnections Between RNA Processes
Alberto Kornblihtt, Chair
See Abstracts 109 – 119
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session IX-B: 3650 Humanities
Translation Regulation
Jon Lorsch, Chair
See Abstracts 120 – 130
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop X-A: Union Theater
CRLT Players – Mentoring Graduate Students
Introduction by Andrew Feig
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop X-B: 3650 Humanities
Non-academic Careers Workshop
Dan Golden, Moderator
Aaron Barkoff, Ph.D., J.D.; Partner, McDonnell Boehnen
Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
John Pham, Ph.D.; Assistant Editor, Molecular Cell
Jeremiah Duncan, Ph.D.; AAAS Policy Fellow
Rachel Bishop, Ph.D., Consultant, Civic Consulting Alliance
5:15 – 6:30 pm Workshop X-C: 2650 Humanities
Scientific Communication Workshop
Sarah Ledoux and Kimberly Dittmar, Moderators
Martha Fedor, Associate Editor, Journal of Biological Chemistry
Timothy Nilsen, Editor, RNA
Angela Andersen, Scientific Editor, Cell
Cell Sabbi Lall, Associate Editor, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
6:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner Buffets Inn Wisconsin
8:30 – 10:30 pm Poster Session 3  
Abstracts (447 – 588)
Posters will be displayed for ONE day. All posters must be removed at the end of each poster session.  
Great Hall & Reception Room (4th floor)
Bioinformatics (447 – 452)
Editing, Modification and 3’ End Formation (453 – 460, 588)
Methods for RNA Science (461 – 466)
Interconnections Between Gene Expression Processes (467 – 468)
Non-coding and Regulatory RNAs and Their Mechanism of Action (469 – 485)
Ribosomes and Translation (486 – 503)
RNA and Disease and Viral RNAs (504 – 516)
RNA Structure, Folding, and Catalysis (517 – 533)
RNA Transport, Localization and Turnover (534 – 547)
RNPs and RNA-Protein Interactions (548 – 560)
Splicing Mechanisms (561 – 568)
Splicing Regulation (569 – 580)
tRNA, snoRNA and rRNA (581 – 587)
Saturday, May 30th    
9:00 am – 12:15 pm Session XI: Union Theater
Splicing Regulation
Manny Ares, Chair
See Abstracts 131 – 141
12:15 – 1:30 pm  Lunch Buffets Inn Wisconsin
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session XII-A: Union Theater
RNA-Protein Complexes – II
Javier Caceres, Chair
See Abstracts 142 – 152
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session XII-B: 3650 Humanities
Non-coding and Regulatory RNAs
Renée Schroeder, Chair
See Abstracts 153 – 163
5:15 – 6:30 pm  Awards Ceremony  Union Theater
7:30 – 8:15 pm Reception Monona Terrace
8:00 – 11:30 pm Banquet and Dance Monona Terrace
Sunday, May 31st    
Conference Concluded – Bus Shuttle will run during the day.  Please see conference site for details.
*These events have pre-registration.

 

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DEADLINES: All participants must register before submitting an abstract.

Abstract Submission: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:59 EST
Lodging Reservations (via registration site): Monday, April 27, 2009
On-Line Registration Deadline: Monday, May 18, 2009
Payments: Monday, April 27, 2009

Questions? Please contact us!
RNA 2009 • Wisconsin Union Conference Services
800 Langdon Street • Madison, WI 53706 • Phone: (608) 265-8012 • Fax: (608) 265-8299
Email: rna@union.wisc.edu