Conference opening
08:45 - 09:00
Chair - Andreas Werner, Sven Diederichs
09.00 - 10.00 Plenary Lecture: Reuven Agami, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
EnhancerRNAs at the service of p53
Session I - The genomics of regulatory RNAs
10:00 - 12:30
Chair: Sven Diederichs, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, DE
10.00 - 10.40 Mitchell Guttman,
lncRNAs: Function and Mechanism in Controlling Cellular Identity
10.40 - 11.00 Anna Vilborg
Widespread Inducible Transcription Downstream of Human Genes
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.10 Maite Huarte
LncRNA components of the p53 pathway
12.10 - 12.30 Anna Postepska-Igielska
Genome-wide isolation and functional characterization of DNA:RNA triplex structures
12.30 - 12.50 Mario Flores
Perturbation of Competing Endogenous RNA networks by lncRNAs
13:00 Lunch and Free Time
Session II - Mechanistic aspects of RNA-mediated regulation
15:00 - 19:00
Chair: Anton Wutz, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
14.30 - 15.10 Gunter Meister
RNA binding proteins as modulators of coding and non-coding RNA functions
15.10 - 15.50 Marvin Jens
Transcriptome-wide binding of human and C.elegans Dicer: the known and the unknown of an ancient protein
15.50 - 16.10 Niels Montano Frandsen
Development of single stranded RNaseH recruiting antisense oligonucleotides for analysis of lncRNA function in cell culture/animals
16.10 - 16.30 Marcel Köhn
The Y3** ncRNA promotes the 3’-end processing of canonical histone mRNAs
16.30 -17.00 Coffee break
17.00 - 17.40 John Rasko
Orchestrated intron retention regulates normal granulocyte differentiation
17.40 - 18.00 Aleksandra Kornienko
Defining the lncRNA transcriptome of human primary granulocytes
18.10 - 18.30 Rory Johnson
The majority of cytoplasmic long noncoding RNAs are associated with ribosomes