Registration & Breakfast
8:30 am - Mary L. Harkness Auditorium lobby, 333 Cedar Street
Welcome
9:00 am - Nancy Brown, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine, Susan Baserga (Yale MB&B), and Sandra Wolin (NIH)
Session 1 – Chaired by Jessica Brown (University of Notre Dame)
9:10 am - Tom Cech
University of Colorado and HHMI, Boulder CO
“The Noncoding RNA Revolution—Trashing Old Rules to Forge New Ones”
9:35 am - David Ginsburg
University of Michigan and HHMI, Ann Arbor MI
“FV/FVIII and Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Bedside to Bench”
10:00 am - Kimberly Mowry
Brown University, Providence RI
“RNA Transport in the Cytoplasm: Biomolecular Condensates Drive mRNA Localization”
10:25 am - BREAK @ Harkness Auditorium Mezzanine
Session 2 - Chaired by Yi-Tao Yu (University of Rochester)
11:00 am - Doug Black
University of California, Los Angeles CA
“Maturing RNAs and Maturing RNA Scientists”
11:25 am - Stavroula Mili
National Institutes of Health
“Control of Protein Function Through Localized mRNA Translation”
11:50 am - Andres Metspalu
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
“40 Year Journey from Molecular Biology to Personal Medicine”
12:15 pm - LUNCH (for registered attendees only)
Harkness Ballroom, 367 Cedar Street; Seating available in tent on Harkness Lawn
Session 3 – Chaired by Nick Conrad (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX)
2:00 pm - Benoît Chabot
Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
“From U2 to Us Too!”
2:25 pm - Gia Voeltz
University of Colorado and HHMI, Boulder CO
“How the ER Regulates the Biogenesis of Other Organelles at Contact Sites”
2:50 pm - Paulina Pawlica
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY
“Viral Noncoding RNAs: Even More Surprises”
3:15 pm - BREAK @ Harkness Auditorium Mezzanine
Session 4 – Chaired by Woan-Yuh Tarn (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
3:45 pm - Eric Sontheimer
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester MA
“From snRNAs to siRNAs to CRISPR RNAs”
4:10 pm - Melissa Moore
Moderna, Cambridge MA
“mRNA as Medicine”
4:55 pm - Joan Steitz
Closing
~5:15pm - Susan Baserga (Yale MB&B) and Sandra Wolin (NIH)