Past Events
T32 NIH Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical & Molecular Sciences
2021 Retreat
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Flyer
Keynote Speaker Dr. Erik Sontheimer, Pillar Chair in Biomedical Research; Professor and Vice Chair, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. “Pro- and Anti-CRISPR”.
RNA Upstate New York: Finger Lakes RNA Conference
Hosted by the Hudson Valley RNA Club and the University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology
Friday, October 25, 2013
- Keynote Lecture: Marlene Belfort, SUNY Albany
“How intron retroelements shape genomes”
- Ryan Palumbo, Wadsworth Center
“Using the Ty1 retrotransposon to debunk the paralog specificity model for duplicated ribosomal protein genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
- Ben Fair, Cornell University
“Identifying regulators of alternative splicing in the fission yeast Schizosaccaromyces pombe”
- Erin Wissink, Cornell University
“High-throughput discovery of 3’ UTR regulatory sequences”
- Rebecca Rose, SUNY Albany
“Mass spectrometry-based RNomics: global surveys of ribonucleotide modifications as possible indicators of metabolic and cellular state”
- Michael Guy, University of Rochester Medical Center
“High throughput quantification of tRNA function in vivo reveals unexpected interactions between tRNA residues”
- Richard Bonocora, Wadsworth Center
“The transcriptional landscape of Escherichia coli”
- Chun Kit Kwok, Pennsylvania State University
“Determination of in vivo RNA structure in low abundance transcripts”
- Andrei Korostelev, UMass Medical School-Worcester
“New structural insights into mechanisms of cap-independent translation initiation”
- Michael Gamalinda, Carnegie Mellon University
“Hierarchical assembly of neighborhoods within yeast 60S ribosomal subunits”
- Neha Gupta, University of Rochester
“Identification and characterization of small subunit ribosomal intermediates in vivo”
- Mushtaq Mir, Wadsworth Center
“Significant leaderless translation in Mycobacterium smegmatis”
- Heather Feaga, Pennsylvania State University
“ArfBCC releases the ribosome from non-stop mRNAs and is required for viability in the absence of trans-translation”
- Reyad Elbarbary, University of Rochester Medical Center
“STAU1 binding 3’ UTR IRAlus complements nuclear retention to protect cells from PKR-mediated translational shutdown”
- Keynote Lecture: Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University
“miRNA-mediated control of gene expression by the CCR4-NOT complex”
Saturday, October 26, 2013
- Keynote Lecture: Ailong Ke, Cornell University
“T box riboswitch decodes both the information content and geometry of tRNA to affect gene expression”
- William Swinehart, Ohio State University
“Dynamic tRNA modification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
- Deepak Thirunavukarasu, SUNY Albany
“RNA aptamer-enabled manipulation reveals a HSP70 based timer in CHIP mediated ubiquitination of misfolded proteins”
- Kimberly Prohaska, University of Rochester Medical Center
“Small molecule allosteric activation of APOBEC3G as a prophylactic against HIV infection”
- Olga Novikova, SUNY Albany
“Synergy between mobile group II intron and conjugative plasmid promotes intron dispersal by retrotransposition”
- Namhee Kim, New York University
“Folding RNA by a hierarchical graph sampling approach”
- William Stephenson, SUNY-CNSE
“Direct observation of non-cooperative folding of single (CAG)n RNA molecules under mechanical tension”
- Alan Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“High-resolution de-novo folding of three hyperstable RNA tetraloops using molecular dynamics simulations”
- Keynote lecture: Philip Bevilacqua, Pennsylvania State University
“How RNA folds in vivo: Structure of low abundance transcripts and genome-wide profiling of RNA structure”
RNA Mini-Symposium
Hosted by the University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology and RNA Structure & Function Cluster
Monday, June 2, 2014
- Ling-Ling Chen, Professor, Institute of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
“Characterization of new long noncoding RNA species”
- Archa Fox, Assistant Professor, Laboratory Head, Cancer Gene Regulation, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia
“A network of prion-like domains in RNA-binding proteins underpins paraspeckles: subnuclear RNP granules”
- Tatsuaki Kurosaki, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester
“ATP modulates the RNA binding and phosphorylation of UPF1”
- Anders Byström, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
“Wobble uridine modifications in eukaryotes”
- Denis LaFontaine, Professor, RNA Metabolism Laboratory, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
“Understanding human ribosome biogenesis”
- Jack M. Sullivan, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY- Buffalo, Ross Eye Institute, VA Western New York Healthcare System
“Toward structure-activity relationships to optimize hammerhead ribozyme therapeutics”
- Yoon Ki Kim, Associate Professor, Dept. of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
“PNRC2-mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells”
- Mikko Frilander, Professor, Program on Developmental Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
“Minor introns and nuclear decay of pre-mRNAs”
- Charles Bond, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia
“The interactions of DBHS-family proteins in nuclear structure and function”
- Charles Thornton, Professor, Dept. of Neurology, Center for RNA Biology, University of Rochester
“Repetitive RNA as pathogen and therapeutic target”