Invited Speakers
Paul Anderson-Harvard Medical School, USA – RNA responses to cell stress in the immune response
Perry Blackshear- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA - mechanisms of RNA regulation using animal models of immunity and autoimmunity
Paul Bohjanen – University of Minnesota, USA – regulation of immunity and virus infection
Gary Brewer – UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, USA - proteins that regulate RNA stability of immune regulators
Jonathan Brody - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, USA – mRNA turnover and translation and their impact on pancreatic cancer
Imed Gallouzi – McGill University, Canada – RNA regulation during differentiation in muscle and apoptosis
Roberto Gherzi - University of Genoa, Italy- mRNA decay and microRNA-mediated regulation during myogenesis and other processes
Myriam Gorospe – National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA – coordination of RNA following genotoxic damage, mechanisms of cell stress responses
Pamela J. Green - University of Delaware, USA, - Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate the Expression of Genes in Plants
Rebecca Hartley – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico – RNA binding factors and implications for cancer, cell cycle regulation
Matthias Hentze – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany – mechanisms of translational regulation
Allan Jacobson – University of Massachusetts, USA – mechanisms of RNA processing and stability in yeast, response to cell stress
Jack Keene – Duke University Medical Center, USA – coordination of RNA in neurons, immune cells and differentiating systems
Mike Kiledjian – Rutgers University, USA – Eukaryotic mRNA turnover, RNA decapping; X-linked mental retardation
Ashish Lal - Harvard University, USA – RNA-binding protein and their implication in cell cycle and apoptosis
Jens Lykke-Andersen – University of California – San Diego, USA – mechanisms of molecular interactions and processing by RNA-based immune regulators
Lynne E. Maquat - Rochester University Medical Center, USA - Non-sense-Mediated mRNA decay and its impact on various cellular processes
Bill Marzluff – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA – role of RNA stability and translation in cell cycle and chromatin formation
Sarah Newbury – University of Sussex (Brighton & Sussex Medical School), UK - role of mRNA stability in development of drosophila and C. elegans
Roy Parker – University of Arizona, USA – pathways of RNA processing, transport and expression in yeast
David Port – University of Colorado, Denver, USA – RNA stability, RNA binding proteins, effects of signal transduction on G-protein receptor function
Robert Schneider – New York University, USA – animal models of RNA stability and translation with emphasis on cancer and immunity
Bertrand Séraphin – CGM, CNRS, France – RNA turnover, RNA splicing
Ann-Bin Shyu – University of Texas - Houston Medical School, USA – underlying mechanisms of RNA stability in mammalian cells
Robert Singer – Albert Einstein School of Medicine of Yeshiva University, USA – understanding RNA localization and interactions in living cells
Nahum Sonenberg – McGill University, Canada – role of RNA binding proteins in translational control and cancer
Joan Steitz – Yale University, USA – mechanisms of RNA processing in cells and viruses
Georg Stoecklin – University of Heidelberg, Germany – regulation of RNAs in the immune system using animal models
Scott Tenenbaum - University of Albany - State University of New York, USA - Posttranscriptional gene expression and the RNA cis-regulatory code
Shobha Vasudevan - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School - Translation regulation by microRNAs in leukemia
Gerald M. Wilson - University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA - the role of mRNA binding protein in cancer progression
Jeff Wilusz – Colorado State University, USA – RNA regulatory processes in mammalian cells and viruses