RNA Innovation

a joint UdeS and UofL NSERC CREATE program, is now accepting applications!

This unique program aims to add value to your degree through on-site training, industry collaborations, and advanced scientific leadership skills development.

Applications can be sent to [email protected] and are due April 1, 2019.

Information              Poster

EMBO Workshop on “RNP network dynamics in development and disease”

(http://meetings.embo.org/event/19-RNP-networks) will take place between 29th September and 2nd of October 2019 in the historic city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. We anticipate this is the first conference to focus on RNA regulatory mechanisms from the perspective of RNP networks and their dynamics. 

In recent years, it has become apparent that changes in the dynamics of RNP assembly and disassembly are major driving forces of development or disease mechanisms. While many scientific meetings focus on studies of RNA regulatory mechanisms, none approaches it from the perspective of RNP networks and their dynamics. 

This meeting will bring together scientists who study the roles of RNPs in development or disease with diverse methods, such as RNP interactomics, CLIP, computational modeling, biophysics, and imaging. It will offer an opportunity to exchange knowledge and discuss future opportunities to further integrate the following complementary approaches: 

• transcriptomics and proteomics of protein-RNA networks 
• dynamics of RNPs through phase separation 
• biological roles of RNPs in development, cancer or neurodegeneration
  Moreover, the meeting will stimulate cross-fertilisation of methods and concepts that are relevant for diverse biological questions in development, cancer and neurologic diseases. 

The meeting has a strong presence of young scientists and in addition to 30 invited speakers, every accepted abstract will be selected for either 15min or 1min talk on top of 2 poster sessions. 

Additionally, on a preceding day to the meeting (28th of September, afternoon) there will be optional computational workshops including sessions on analysis of CLIP sequencing data with Python, R, and the basics of machine learning, and optional introductory lectures to be held on the first day (29th of September; 9:00-13:00) on the main methods covered by the conference (CLIP, RBPome, phase separation related methods, computational tools for analysis and visualisation of RNP networks). All participants will be asked during the online registration process to suggest and possibly hold the pre-meeting workshops and introductory lectures.

More information about the event including a preliminary schedule and the list of the speakers may be found on the website (http://meetings.embo.org/event/19-RNP-networks). We are happy to be at your disposal for any questions that may arise. You are also encouraged to contact us ([email protected]) in case you need any help with the trip organisation and hotel rooms/apartments booking.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE 21 JUNE 2019 
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE 31 May 2019

Jernej Ule, Dorothee Dormann, Anne-Claude Gingras, Miha Modic

mRNA Turnover: Mechanisms, Regulation and their Implication in Infectious and Age-Related Diseases

3rd International Conference “The long and the short of non-coding RNAs”

June 18 – 23, 2019 at Avra Imperial Hotel & Conference Center, Chania, Crete, Greece.
https://www.aegeanconferences.org/src/App/conferences/view/133

We have assembled an outstanding lineup of speakers including:
Iannis Aifantis, New York University | David Bartel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Robert Blelloch, University of California San Francisco | Javier Caceres, University of Edinburgh | Howard Chang, Stanford University | Peter Choi, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Myriam Gorospe, National Institute on Aging Baltimore | Richard Gregory, Boston Children’s Hospital | Lin He, University of California Berkeley | Jorge Henao-Mejia, University of Pennsylvania | Eva Hernando-Monge, New York University | Vasant Jadhav, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals |Prasanth Kannanganattu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Narry Kim, Seoul National University | Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Ashish Lal,National Cancer Institute Bethesda | Judy Lieberman, Boston Children’s Hospital | Haifan Lin, Yale University | Li Ma, MD Anderson Cancer Center | Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester | Christine Mayr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Zissimos Mourelatos, University of Pennsylvania | Kees Murre, University of California San Diego | Donal O’Carroll, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine Edinburgh | Ramesh Pillai, Université de Genève | Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin | Stewart Shuman,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Joan Steitz, Yale University | Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Andrea Ventura, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Phil Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School

The conference will also feature multiple oral presentations selected from proffered abstracts.
Thus, if you have an interesting story to tell, please submit one by March 15, 2019 by following this link:

https://www.aegeanconferences.org/src/App/pages/view/AbstractInstructions?conference=133

Registration by that date also entitles you to early‐bird discounts, and graduate and medical students, as well as postdoctoral and clinical fellows are eligible for Travel Awards:

https://www.aegeanconferences.org/src/App/pages/view/TravelAwardInstructions?conference=133

Please note that the registration fee is inclusive of 5‐night accommodation at the 5-star Avra Imperial Hotel and all meals including Welcome and Gala Dinners.

Read more about this resort here:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g1187586-d2169582-Reviews-Avra_Imperial_Hotel-Kolymbari_Platanias_Chania_Prefecture_Crete.html

We hope to welcome you to Chania this June!

With best wishes from your returning co-organizers –

Myriam Gorospe, PhD
Senior Investigator
National Institutes on Aging

Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD 
Chair in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

Zissimos Mourelatos, MD
Professor and Fellowship Director 
University of Pennsylvania

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Ph.D. 
Director, Experimental Pathology Branch
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia