3rd International Conference on the Long and the Short of Non-Coding RNAs

Program

Tuesday, June 18

 

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception and Dinner

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 19

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

8:20 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

SESSION I

 

Systems biology of ncRNAs

Chair: Joan Steitz 

8:30 AM

1

The enigma of viral noncoding RNAs

Joan Steitz

9:00 AM

2

Single-Cell RNA analysis in space and time

Nikolaus Rajewsky

9:30 AM

3

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Howard Chang

10:00 AM

4

Ribothrypsis

Zissimos Mourelatos

10:30 AM

5

A new tool for in vivo RNA structure analysis reveals HIV-1 genome-wide heterogeneity and alternative conformations that regulate viral RNA splicing

Phillip Tomezsko, Vincent Corbin, Paromita Gupta, Harish Swaminathan, and Silvia Rouskin

10:45 AM

6

Dinucleoside polyphosphates: new class of 5’-RNA caps in bacteria 

Hana Cahova

11:00 AM

7

Deep Learning for intra- and inter-species mining for small RNAs

Georgios Georgakilas, Andrea Grioni, Konstantinos Liakos, Eliska Malanikova, Fotis Plessas, and Panagiotis Alexiou

 

 

 

11:15 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION II

Short RNA biogenesis and regulation

Chair: Richard Gregory

11:45 AM

8

The Perlman Syndrome Dis3l2 exonuclease as guardian of ER-associated translation 

Richard Gregory

12:15 PM

9

An unexpected role for a prokaryotic argonaute protein in DNA replication

Samson Jolly, Ildar Gainetdinov, Han Zhang, and Phillip Zamore

12:45 PM

10

MIWI Prevents Aneuploidy during Meiosis

Chia-Ling Hsieh, Jing Xia, and Haifan Lin

1:15 PM

11

Towards a comprehensive understanding of primary microRNA processing

S. Chan Baek, Kijun Kim, Boseon Kim, Il-Soo Park, Dal-Hee Min, Kevin Weeks, and V. Narry Kim

1:45 PM

12

Crosstalk between canonical and Ago2-dependent miRNA processing

Daniel Cifuentes, Dmitry Kretov, and Simon Moxon

2:00 PM

13

Structural and biochemical analyses reveal the mechanism of circRNA biogenesis 

Xueni Li, Shiheng Liu, Z. Hong Zhou, and Rui Zhao

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Thursday, June 20

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION III

lncRNAs in development & disease 1

Chair: Myriam Gorospe 

8:30 AM

14

Role of lncRNA OIP5-AS1 in human myogenesis

Jen-Hao Yang and Myriam Gorospe

9:00 AM

15

Nucleolus-enriched repeat-containing noncoding RNA regulates rDNA transcription.

Qinyu Hao and Kannanganattu Prasanth

9:30 AM

16

SPARCLE, a p53-induced lincRNA that controls apoptosis after genomic stress

Karla Meza-Sosa, Francisco Navarro, and Judy Lieberman

10:00 AM

17

The role of non-coding transcription in compartmentalization

Kees Murre, Takeshi Isoda, Vivek Chandra, and Zhaoren He

10:30 AM

18

The lncRNA Xist establishes a phase-separated compartment required for the maintenance of gene silencing

Amy Pandya-Jones, Yolanda Markaki, Jacques Serizay, Tsotne Chitiashvili, Walter Mancia, Andrey Damianov, Costantinos Chronis, Bernadett Papp, Robin McKee, Anthony Chau, Heinrich Leonhardt, Sika Zheng, Mitchell Guttman, Douglas Black, and Kathrin Plath

10:45 AM

19

Nuclear lncRNA Cyrano modulates expression of OIP5 oncogene

Elzbieta Wanowska, Michal Szczesniak, Magdalena Kubiak, and Izabela Makalowska

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION IV

mRNA metabolism

Chairs: Lynne E Maquat

11:45 AM

20

3'UTR SINE-directed mRNA metabolism

Lynne Maquat

12:15 PM

21

Functional characterization of an ER-localized Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway

Javier Caceres

12:45 PM

22

Alternative splicing in leukemia: mechanisms and consequences

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

1:15 PM

23

Regulation of 3′UTR-mediated protein-protein interactions

Christine Mayr

1:45 PM

24

Regulating the Terminator: Interaction of small non-coding RNA SraL regulates the terminator by preventing premature transcription termination of rho mRNA

Ines Silva, Susana Barahona, Alex Eyraud, David Lalaouna, Nara Figueroa-Bossi, Eric Massé, and Cecilia Arraiano

2:00 PM

25

Cell-to-cell variability in Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

Hanae Sato and Robert Singer

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Friday, June 21

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION V

lncRNAs in development & disease 2

Chair: Stewart Shuman

8:30 AM

26

lncRNA synthesis and phosphate homeostasis in fission yeast

Beate Schwer, Ana Sanchez, Angad Garg, and Stewart Shuman

9:00 AM

27

piRNA-directed DNA Methylation

Dónal O'Carroll 

9:30 AM

28

The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a highly conserved family of non-coding RNAs

Jorge Henao-Mejia

10:00 AM

29

sxRNA: Modulating mRNA regulatory motifs through the binding of structurally interacting, microRNA

Scott Tenenbaum

10:15 AM

30

The core tertiary structure of long non-coding RNA MEG3 is essential for stimulation of the p53 pathway

Tina Uroda, Eleni Anastasakou, Jean-Marie  Teulon, Jean-Luc  Pellequer, Paolo Annibale, Alberto Inga, Isabel Chillon, and Marco Marcia

10:30 AM

31

Regulation of CHD2 expression by the Chaserr long noncoding RNA is essential for viability

Aviv Rom

10:45 AM

32

Non-coding RNAs in motor neuron differentiation and degeneration

Andrea Carvelli, Beatrice Salvatori, Silvia Biscarini, Irene Bozzoni, and Pietro Laneve

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION VI

 

short RNAs in development & disease

Chair: David Bartel

11:45 AM

33

MicroRNAs

David Bartel

12:15 PM

34

MicroRNA regulation of early mammalian development

Robert Blelloch

12:45 PM

35

miRNAs and retrotransposons, seeking treasures in the non-coding genome

Yongjin Choi, Andrew Modzelewski, Martin Kinisu, Paul Lin, and Lin He

1:15 PM

36

Gene regulation by RNA modifications

Ramesh Pillaiand Mateusz Mendel

1:45 PM

37

Probing and targeting motor neuron subtype differential vulnerability in ALS via Mir-17~92

Jun-An Chen

2:00 PM

38

microRNA degradation in human physiology and pathology

Francesco Nicassio, Ines Simeone, Carmela Rubolino, and Matteo Marzi

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:00 PM

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner. 

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

 

 

 

Saturday, June 22

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

SESSION VII

Long and short ncRNAs in cancer

Chair: Iannis Aifantis

8:30 AM

39

Targeting RNA-binding protein networks in Acute Leukemia

Iannis Aifantis

9:00 AM

40

Epigenetic silencing of CDR1as drives IGF2BP3-mediated melanoma invasion and metastasis

Douglas Hanniford, Alejandro Ulloa, Beatriz Sánchez-Sendra, Alcida Karz, Rana S. Moubarak, Tommaso Tabaglio, Maria Gabriela Berzoti-Coelho, Veronica Davalos, Pamela Wu, Varshini Vasudevaraja, Karin Lilja, Jochen Imig, Andreas Kloetgen, Carlos Monteagudo, Ernesto Guccione, Iman Osman, Iannis Aifantis, and Eva Hernando

9:30 AM

41

New paradigms for lncRNA functions and mechanisms in cancer metastasis

Li Ma

10:00 AM

42

A message from a putative lncRNA in colorectal cancer

Ashish Lal

10:30 AM

43

Circular RNAs drive oncogenic chromosomal translocations through R-loop-mediated genome instability

Vanessa Conn, John Toubia, Gokhan Cildir, Shashikanth Marri, and Simon Conn

10:45 AM

44

p53 activates the long noncoding RNA Pvt1b to inhibit Myc and suppress tumorigenesis

Nadya Dimitrova and Christiane Olivero

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

SESSION VIII

Genome editing and RNA therapeutics

Chair: Adrian Krainer

11:45 AM

45

Targeted antisense therapeutics for modulation of splicing or NMD

Adrian Krainer

12:15 PM

46

Modeling and treating BRAF-driven pediatric brain cancers using ex vivo and in vivo chromosomal engineering

Andrea Ventura

12:45 PM

47

Interrogating the effects of cancer-associated alternative splicing

Peter Choi

1:15 PM

48

Delivering on the promise of RNAi therapeutics

Vasant Jadhav

1:45 PM

49

Discovery of cancer-emergent orphan non-coding RNAs as neo-regulators in cancer progression

Hani Goodarzi, Lisa Fish, and Steven Zhang

2:00 PM

50

Anti-HIV-1 replicative effect of small molecule Enoxacin by modulation of pro-viral miR-132

Jochen Imig, Helen Lightfoot, Verena Schlösser, Christine Leemann, Valentina Vongrad, Andreas Brunschweiger, Jonathan Hall, and Karin Metzner

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

2:20 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

 

Sunday, June 23

 

 

 

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Departure

 

POSTERS

51

Establishing the role of miR-150 in Multiple Sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Eliane Piket, Lara Kular, and Maja Jagodic

52

CRISPR/Cas9 screen for functional MYC binding sites in K562 cells reveals an essential MYC-regulated cluster on chromosome 22

Marta Kazimierska, Magdalena Zurawek, Marta Podralska, Joost Kluiver, Anke van den Berg, and Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk

53

Dlk1-Dio3 locus-derived LncRNAs perpetuate postmitotic motor neuron cell fate and subtype identity

Ya-Ping Yen, Wen-Fu Hsieh, Ya-Yin Tsai, Ya-Lin Lu, Ee Shan Liau, Ho-Chiang Hsu, Yen-Chung Chen, Ting-Chun Liu, Mien Chang, Joye Li, Shau-Ping Lin, Jui-Hung Hung, and Jun-An Chen

54

ADAR1-mediated RNA editing promotes thyroid cancer tumorigenesis

Julia Ramírez-Moya, Allison Backer, Frank Slack, and Pilar Santisteban

55

“Glucocorticoids selectivity enhances microRNAs production by modulating lncRNAs transcription”

Julia Liz, Lisa Öberg, John Cole, Carl Goodyear, and Rose Maciewicz

56

Epigenetic mediators of acquired Erlotinib-resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Arpita Pal, Alejandra Agredo, Manvir Bains, Kayla Gates, and Andrea Kasinski

57

The long ncRNA LINP1 interacts with the Ku heterodimer in a multifunctional protein complex “lnc-ing” RNA To DNA repair with cancer implications

Roopa Thapar, Michal Hammel, Ruiqiong Ye, Miaw-Sheue Tsai, John Tainer, and Susan Lees-Miller

58

Disturbed flow induces aortic valve calcification by activating the HIF-1α Pathway triggered by loss of miR-483-3p, leading to increased UBE2C and degradation of pVHL.

Joan Fernandez Esmerats, Nico Villa-Roel, Tausif Salim, Ajit Yoganathan, and Hanjoong Jo

59

Dissecting the molecular mechanism of Meg3 in motor neuron development

Hung Lo, Kuan-Wei Chen, Ya-Ping Yen, Ya-Yin Tsai, Wen-Fu Hsieh, Yen-Chung Chen, Jui-Hung Hung, and Jun-An Chen

60

Destroying nonsense mutation harboring transcripts

Yarden Shor, Michal Caspi, and Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld 

61

Use of therapeutic miRNAs for the treatment of chondrosarcoma

Clément Veys, Abderrahim Benmoussa, Romain Contentin, Amandine Duchemin, Emilie Brotin, Yannick Saintigny, Christophe Denoyelle, Magali Demoor, Florence Legendre, and Philippe Galéra

62

Circ_Lrp6, a circular RNA enriched in vascular smooth muscle cells, acts as a sponge regulating miRNA-145 function

Ignacio Hall, Monserrat Climent, Manuela Quintavalle, Floriana  Farina, Tilo  Schorn, Stefania Zani, Pierluigi Carullo, Paolo Kunderfranco, Efrem Civilini, Gianluigi Condorelli, and Leonardo Elia

63

Regulatory functions of nested retrocopies derived from protein-coding genes

Magdalena Kubiak, Elzbieta Wanowska, Magdalena Przybylinska, and Izabela Makalowska

64

Identification of lncRNAs involved in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma

Joost Kluiver, Gerben Duns, Melanie Winkle, Lauren Chong, Daisuke Ennishi, Arjan Diepstra, David Scott, Anke van den Berg, and Christian Steidl

65

Functional role of miR-16 in platelets

Neetu Dahiya and Chintamani Atreya

66

Role of DINO lncRNA in cell-to-cell variation of the p53 tumor suppressor transcriptional program

Julia  Garcia, Jin Xu, Laura Attardi, and Howard Chang

67

 Identifying critical genes and microRNAs that potentiate KRAS;p53-driven lung tumorigenesis

Chennan Li, Nadia Lanman, and Andrea Kasinski

68

A CRISPRi-based approach to identify long noncoding RNAs with roles in senescence

Filipa Marques and Igor Ulitsky

69

Expression profiles and functional analysis of circRNAs in primary and secondary gliomas 

Konrad Kuczynski, Zaneta Zarebska, Dariusz Wawrzyniak, Anna-Maria Barciszewska, Rafał Piestrzeniewicz, and Katarzyna Rolle

70

Differential expression pattern of circular RNA in prostate cancer cells after single and fractionated radiation

Moly Aryankalayil, Iris Eke, Sunita Chopra, Shannon Martello, and Norman Coleman

71

The role of ZDHHC11 in the oncogenic MYC/miR-150/MYB network in Burkitt Lymphoma

Lotteke Swier, Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, Yichen Liu, Annika Seitz, Joost Kluiver, and Anke van den Berg

72

Characterization of lincRNAs potentially involved with sexual maturation induced by pairing in Schistosoma mansoni

Gilbert Silveira, Lucas Maciel, Murilo Amaral, and Sergio Verjovski-Almeida

73

LincRNA regulators of adaptive immunity to chronic infection

James Hewitson, Kylie James, Katie West, Nidhi Dey, Naj Brown, Sarah Teichmann, Paul Kaye, and Dimitris Lagos

74

DICIER: A fine-tuned bioinformatics pipeline to detect microRNA chimeric reads

Andrea Grioni, George Georgakilas, Andrea Biodi, Eliska malanikova, and Panagiotis Alexiou

75

The role of long non-coding RNAs in the regulatory landscape of plastic breast cancer cells

Matteo Marzi, Chiara Tordonato, Montserrat Climent, Paola Bonetti, Ines Simeone, and Francesco Nicassio

76

A miRNAs family involved in breast normal and cancer stem cells connects cellular metabolism with pharmacological resistance 

Chiara  Tordonato, Matteo Marzi, Francesco Nicassio, and Pier Paolo Di Fiore

77

Identification of blood plasma microRNA by Next-generation sequencing: a comparative methodical study with special focus on library preparation technique

Karolína Trachtová, Táňa Macháčková, Natalia Gablo, and Ondřej Slabý

78

Functional Study of MiR-215 as Tumor Suppressor in Colorectal Cancer

Tana Machackova, Kamila Souckova, Petra Vychytilova, Dominika Brchnelova, Tomas Loja, Natalia Anna Gablo, Karolina Trachtova, and Ondrej Slaby

79

Small RNA sequencing of preoperative blood plasma identifies microRNA signature enabling to find pancreatic cancer patients who will not benefit from surgical resection

Natalia Gablo, Tana Machackova, Karolina Trachtova, Vladimir Prochazka, Jan Hlavsa, Igor Kiss, Josef Srovnal, Zdenek Kala, and Ondrej Slaby

80

Non-coding RNAs as markers and determinants of Epigenetic and Transcriptional plasticity in breast cancer

Bianca Giuliani, Paola Bonetti, Chiara Tordonato, Ines Simeone, Matteo Marzi, and Francesco Nicassio

81

Determining the role for lincRNA-Cox2 in host defense within the lung

Elektra Robinson, Allyson Capili, and Susan Carpenter

82

Stress-induced regulatory RNAs derived from tRNA

Pavel Ivanov

83

IL6 signaling and long non-coding RNAs in liver cancer

Nadège Minoungou, Florence Servais, Mélanie Kirchmeyer, Tony Kaoma, Petr Nazarov, and Iris Behrmann

84

The DNMT1-Associated lincRNA DACOR1 Reprograms Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Colon Cancer  

Sai Somasundaram, Sanford Markowitz, Thomas LaFramboise, and Ahmad Khalil

85

Production, purification and delivery of recombinant pre-miR-29 

Patrícia  Pereira, Sandra Viegas, Fani Sousa, and Cecília Arraiano

86

More than a million experimentally supported entries of microRNA interactions with coding and non-coding transcripts

Spyros Tastsoglou, Dimitra Karagkouni, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Ioannis Vlachos, Giorgos Skoufos, Thanasis Vergoulis, Theodore Dalamagas, and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

87

LncRNA PVT1 mediates a transcriptional repression program in LNCaP prostate cancer cells 

Alexandre Videira, Felipe Beckedorff, and Sergio Verjovski-Almeida

88

microRNA-34b modulation can potentiates chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in Burkitt lymphoma cells

Marcela Cristina Robaina, Amanda Leonel, Luciano Mazzoccoli, and Claudete Klumb

89

Identification of new class of 5’-RNA caps in E. coli using LC-MS

Roberto Benoni, Oldřich  Hudeček, and Hana  Cahová

90

microCLIP introduces a new era of CLIP-Seq-guided characterization of miRNA targetome

Dimitra Karagkouni, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Ioannis Vlachos, and Spyros Tastsoglou

91

The long non-coding RNA HOTAIRM1 mediates radioresistance in glioblastoma

Ulvi Ahmadov, Daniel Picard, Manuela Silginer, Marlen Melcher, Alina Winkelkotte, Marija Trajkovic-Arsic, Nan Qin, Maike Langini, Anna Kaufhold, Jasmin Bartl, Lara Kleinesudeik, Simone Fulda, Felix Distelmaier, Jens Siveke, Kai Stühler, Arndt Borkhardt, Michael Weller, Patrick Roth, Guido Reifenberger, and Marc Remke

92

Network-based integration of multi-omics data enables the identification of the most critical determinants of a miRNA effects: the example of miR-491-5p in ovarian cancer

Matthieu Meryet-Figuiere, Mégane Vernon, Mamy Andrianteranagna, Bernard Lambert, Jean-Paul Issartel, Audrey Guttin, Pascal Gauduchon, Emilie Brotin, Florent Dingli, Damarys Loew, Nicolas Vigneron, Anaïs  Wambecke, Emmanuel Barillot, Laurent Poulain, Loredana Martignetti, and Christophe Denoyelle

93

Long Noncoding RNAs mediate the effect of childhood maltreatment on PTSD

Guia Guffanti, Torsten Klengel, Claudia Klengel, Kerry Ressler, and Murray Stein

94

Profile of small non-coding RNAs and their machinery during Xenopus Laevis oocytes meiotic maturation.

Rafah Mackeh, Tomoshige Kino , Njoud Al-Naama, Shahina Hayat, and Khaled Machaca 

95

MicroRNA-31: a double-edged sword regulating cancer cell sensitivity to chemotherapy and radiation 

Stephen Maher, Niamh Lynam-Lennon, Hannah Moody, Jason McGrath, Becky Bibby, Michael Lind, and John Reynolds