The 10th Annual RNA Center Retreat

We are excited to announce that the RNA Center Retreat will take place on November 4th, 2022 in O.C. Marsh Auditorium, YSB

8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration & Breakfast (Marsh Lobby)

9:00 – 9:15 AM Welcome (Marsh Auditorium) Karla Neugebauer (MB&B, Director of the Yale RNA Center)

Session I (Marsh Auditorium) Chair: Dagmar Zigackova

9:15 – 9:40 AM Haifan Lin (Cell Biology) "Uniting the genome: Novel functions of the Piwi-piRNA pathway in the germline"

9:40 – 10:05 AM Salil Garg (Laboratory Medicine) "Enhancer RNA regulation of embryonic stem cell states"

10:05 – 10:30 AM Zachary Smith (Genetics) "Regulatory transitions in the LINE-1 life cycle"

10:30 – 11:30 AM Poster Session I (Odd) & Coffee (Marsh Lobby)

Session II (Marsh Auditorium) Chair: Damir Musaev

11:30 – 11:55 AM Sigrid Nachtergaele (MCDB) "Gene expression regulation by RNA modifications"

11:55 – 12:20 PM Paul Turner (EEB) "Evolutionary constraint in RNA-virus adaptation"

12:20 – 1:20 PM Lunch (Marsh Lobby)

Session III (Marsh Auditorium) Chair: Austin Draycott

1:20 – 1:45 PM Wendy Gilbert (MB&B) "Illuminating thousand-fold regulation of translation to engineer mRNA medicines"

1:45 – 2:10 PM

Pedro Miura (UConn Health) "Coordinated Alternative Splicing and Alternative Polyadenylation"

2:10 – 2:35 PM Diane Krause (Laboratory Medicine) "m6A modification in Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia"

2:35 – 3:35 PM Poster Session II (Even) & Coffee (Marsh Lobby)

Session IV (Marsh Auditorium) Chair: Ethan Strayer

3:35 – 4:00 PM Farren Isaacs (MCDB) "Designing synthetic genetic elements to decode & domesticate organisms"

4:00 – 4:25 PM Brenton Graveley (UConn Health) "RNA Genomics"

4:25 – 4:50 PM Antonio Giraldez (Genetics) "Mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation during embryonic development"

4:50 – 5:00 PM Closing Remarks (Marsh Auditorium)

5:00 – 6:00 PM Reception (Science Hill Courtyard)