2nd Annual Meeting on RNA: from basic research to industrial applications - October 11 2016

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Time and venue: October 11, 2016 09:15 in The Ceremonial Hall (Festsalen), University of Copenhagen, Frue Plads 4, Copenhagen K,

Programme

09:15 – 10:00 Registration is open
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and introduction to the Danish RNA society (Jan Gorodkin, Torben Heick Jensen)
10:10 – 10:55 Herve Le Hir (Institut de Biologie de lÉcole Normale Supériur, France)
                      "A view of the complexity of mRNP assembly"
10:55 – 11:15 Mads Aaboe Jensen (Roche, Denmark)
                       "RNA Therapeutics – developing a new class of drugs"
11:15 – 12:00 Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
                       "Monsters in the RNA Zoo: Evolution of non-coding RNA"
12:00 – 14:15 Lunch + Poster Session
14:15 – 14:35 Thorarinn Blondal (Exiqon, Denmark)
                       "Comparison of NGS and qPCR microRNA profiling platforms"
14:35 – 15:20 Sarah Djebali (INRA GenPhyS, France)
                       "ChimPipe: Accurate detection of fusion genes and transcription-induced chimeras from RNA-seq data"
15:20 – 16:05 Peter Refsing Andersen (IMBA, Austria)
                       "The TFIIA-L paralog Moonshiner drives transcription of heterochromatin to generate piRNA precursors in Drosophila"  
16:05 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15 Bruce Sullenger (Duke University Medical Center, USA)
                      "Forward and Reverse Translation with RNA aptamers and antidotes"
17:15 – 18:00  Peter Brodersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
                       "Amplification of gene silencing by small non-coding RNAs"
18:00 – 18.15 Closing Remarks (Jan Gorodkin)

 

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