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

Program

Sunday, June 14

 

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

Monday, June 15

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

8:30 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

Session 1

 

 

Germline and non-mammalian ncRNAs

Chair: Joan Steitz

8:45 AM

1

Biogenesis of germline small RNAs

Radha Raman Pandey, David Homolka and Ramesh Pillar

9:15 AM

2

Male Infertility Caused by Ubiquitination-deficient Mutations in Human Piwi (Hiwi)

Lan-Tao Gou, Jun-Yan Kang, Peng Dai, Xin Wang, Feng Li and Mo-Fang Liu

9:45 AM

3

Uniting Major Constituents of the Genome: The Role of piRNAs in the Germline

Toshiaki  Watanabe, Ee-chun  Cheng, Mei  Zhong and Haifan  Lin

10:15 AM

4

Embryonic Piwi expression is required for the heterochromatic germinal piRNA production in the Drosophila adult female

Abdou Akkouche, Bruno Mugat, Blaise LI, Carolina Varela-Chavez, Alain Pélisson and Severine Chambeyron

10:30 AM

5

Protein-guided elimination of specific lncRNAs controls sexual differentiation and heterochromatin gene silencing in fission yeast

Leila Touat-Todeschini, Mathieu Dangin, Yuichi Schichino, Edwige Hiriart, Benoit Gilquin, Akira Yamashita, Ravi Sachidanandam, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg, Jan Kadlec, Ramesh Pillai, Masayuki Yamamoto and Andre Verdel

10:45 AM

6

5′ non-coding end of La Crosse orthobunyavirus RNA genome allosterically structures and activates the polymerase catalytic site

Piotr Gerlach, Helene Malet, Stephen Cusack and Juan Reguera

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee break and poster viewing

 

 

 

Session 2

 

 

Genome Editing and RNA Therapeutics

Chair: Andrei Thomas Tikhonenko

12:00 PM

7

CRISPR-Cas9: an ancient bacterial immune system harnessed for genome engineering

Emmanuelle Charpentier

12:30 PM

8

Systematic exploration of LincRNAs in the immune system using the CRISPR/Cas9 system

Jorge Henao-Mejia

1:00 PM

9

Targeted gene knockdown using aptamer-siRNA chimeras

Judy Lieberman

1:30 PM

10

Somatic genome editing as a novel tool to model human cancers in mice

Andrea Ventura

2:00 PM

11

3’UTR SNPs that are targets for A-I RNA editing control IGF1R mRNA expression levels in high-risk neuroblastoma

Danika Johnston, Elena Sotillo-Piñeiro, Linh Le, Lee McDaniel, Pichai Raman, Ariella Sasson, Liu Xu, Travis Laver, Edward Attiyeh, Kristina Cole, John Maris, Sharon Diskin and Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

2:15 PM

12

Molecular mechanism and therapeutic activity of modified U1 snRNAs

Franco Pagani

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions at a Local Greek Restaurant

 

Tuesday, June 16

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session 3

 

RNA Metabolism
Chair: Emmanuelle Charpentier

8:30 AM

13

hnRNPs and snRNPs: the instruments of post-transcriptional gene regulation

Gideon Dreyfuss

9:00 AM

14

New RNA metabolic enzymes: mechanisms, biology and disease

Javier Martinez

9:30 AM

15

small RNAs and RNPs

Zissimos Mourelatos

10:00 AM

16

The role of alternative splicing in leukemia immunoediting

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

10:30 AM

17

Spliceosomal snRNA targeting to Cajal bodies

Adriana Roithova and David Stanek

10:45 AM

18

RNA-dependent chromatin localization of KDM4D lysine demethylase promotes H3K9me3 demethylation

Prathamesh Thangaraj Nadar Ponniah, Muhammad Zoabi, Hanan Khoury-Haddad, Marko Usaj, Inbal Budowski-Tal, Tali Haran, Arnon Henn, Yael Mandel-Gutreund and Nabieh Ayoub

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee break and poster viewing

 

 

 

Session 4

 

microRNA Biogenesis and Regulation

Chair: Gideon Dreyfuss

12:00 PM

19

Regulation of microRNA biogenesis

Javier Caceres

12:30 PM

21

Regulation of miRNA repression and miRNA metabolism in mammalian cells

Witold Filipowicz

1:00 PM

22

Target-induced microRNA degradation by DIS3L2 and TUT1

Gabrielle Haas, Semih Cetin, Mélanie Messmer, Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming, Johana Chicher, Lauriane Kuhn, Philippe Hammann and Sébastien Pfeffer

1:15 PM

23

Mature microRNA 3' non-templated nucleotide additions during T cell activation

Cristina Gutiérrez-Vázquez, Anton Enright, Vladimir Benes, Joseph Mizgerd, Maria Mittelbrunn and Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

1:30 PM

24

Uncovering microRNA dynamic degradation in cancer through metabolic labeling

Matteo Marzi, Francesco  Ghini, Heiko Muller, Benedetta Cerruti and Francesco Nicassio

1:45 PM

25

Multiple distinct mechanisms disrupt let-7 microRNA biogenesis and function in neuroblastoma

John Powers, Kaloyan Tsanov, Frederik Roels, Richard Ebright, Marc Seligson, T de Soysa, Patrick Cahan, Jessica Theissen, Grace LaPier, Daniel Pearson, Frank Berthold and George Daley

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

 

3:30 PM

 

 

Meet 'AAA' Editors

Angela Eggleston (Nature)
Anke Sparmann (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)
Anne Nielsen (EMBO Journal)

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions at a Local Greek Restaurant

 

 

Wednesday, June 17

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session 5

 

lncRNAs in Development & Disease

Chair: Witold Filipowicz

8:30 AM

26

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Howard Chang

9:00 AM

27

Senescence LncRNPs

Myriam Gorospe

9:30 AM

28

A new class of long non-coding RNAs directly regulating signal transduction pathways

Erwei Song

10:00 AM

29

About Noam Chomsky, DNA motifs, non-codingRNAs and cancer patients

George Calin

10:30 AM

30

An mRNA-derived ncRNA targets and regulates the ribosome

Andreas Pircher and Norbert Polacek

10:45 AM

31

The long noncoding RNA SPRY4-IT1 regulates cell proliferation and apoptosis in human melanocytes.

Wei Zhao, Joseph Mazar, Bongyong Lee, John Shelley, Subramaniam Govindarajan, Dwight Towler, Marcel Dinger and Ranjan Perera

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Session 6

 

Long and Short ncRNAs in Cancer

Chair: Judy Lieberman

11:30 AM

32

Regulation and function of non-coding RNAs in colorectal cancer

Ashish Lal

12:00 PM

33

Long non-coding RNAs in Cancer

Sven Diederichs

12:30 PM

34

Regulation of acute leukemia progression by non coding (lnc/enhancer) RNAs

Iannis Aifantis

1:00 PM

35

The lncRNA CASC15 is a target of the the 6p22 neuroblastoma GWAS susceptibility locus

Kristina Cole

1:30 PM

36

A novel mitosis-associated lncRNA, MA-linc1, is required for cell cycle progression and sensitizes cancer cells to Paclitaxel

Or Bida, Moriah Gidoni, Sol Efroni and Doron Ginsberg

1:45 PM

37

Role of NEAT1 long non coding RNA in therapy resistant prostate cancer

Dimple Chakravarty

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

3:30 PM

 

City Tour (depart from the hotel lobby at 3:30PM)

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

 

Thursday, June 18

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session 7

 

microRNAs in Development

Chair: Zissimos Mourelatos

8:30 AM

38

MicroRNA Regulation of Mammalian Embryonic Development

Robert Blelloch

9:00 AM

39

Mechanisms of microRNA regulation in stem cells and cancer

Richard Gregory

9:30 AM

40

Role of microRNA processing enzyme Drosha in vascular development

Akiko Hata, Xuan Jiang, Daniel Hart, Mai Baalbaki, Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir and Whitney Donahue

10:00 AM

41

Regulation of Dicer1 Expression by Microprocessor Complexes and SnaR ncRNA

Jerome Barbier, Gabriel Sanchez, Xin Chen, Celine Elie, Marion Helsmoortel, Anne Coleno-Costes, Xavier Contreras and Rosemary Kiernan

10:15 AM

42

Functional analysis of the miR-CLIP defined potential multi-miRNA sponge lncRNA H19

Jochen Imig, Andreas Brunschweiger, Alexander Kanitz, Anneke Brümmer, Nitish Mittal, Jonathan Hall and Mihaela Zavolan

10:30 AM

43

Mir-17~92 Governs Motor Neuron Subtype Survival Intrinsically by Mediating Nuclear PTEN

Jun-An Chen

 

 

 

10:45 AM

 

Coffee break and poster viewing

 

 

 

Session 8

 

Systems biology of ncRNAs

Chair: Howard Chang

12:00 PM

44

Viral Noncodings RNAs: Insights into Evolution

Joan Steitz

12:30 PM

45

 The regulation of the regulators: The identification of miRNA promoters and their targets through an experimental computational approach

Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

1:00 PM

46

Regulatory RNAs

Nikolaus Rajewsky

1:30 PM

47

MicroRNAs, MicroRNA isoforms, and their Targets

Isidore Rigoutsos

2:00 PM

48

The first wave of transcription in mouse zygotes produces mainly non-coding transcripts

Ken-ichiro Abe, Ryoma Yamamoto, Vedran Franke, Minjun Cao, Yutaka Suzuki, Masataka Suzuki, Kristian Vlahovicek, Petr Svoboda, Richard Schultz and Fugaku Aoki

2:15 PM

49

RNA interference pathways regulate genome integrity and early mouse development programs

Constance Ciaudo

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

Friday, June 19

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

8:30 AM

 

Departure

 

Posters

50

A role for DNA methylation in expression and function of activating ncRNAs

Ulf Ørom

51

An emerging player NKILA is a modulator of Activation Induced Cell Death in T lymphocytes

Di Huang, Shicheng Su and Bodu Liu

52

Analysis of RNP structure of long non-coding RNAs with a relevant function in muscle differentiation

Sama Shamloo, Julie Martone, Monica Ballarino and Irene Bozzoni

53

Antisense lncRNAs regulate mutually exclusive expression of virulence genes in malaria parasites

Inbar Amit-Avraham, Guy Pozner, Shiri Eshar, Yair Fastman, Netanel Kolevzon, Eylon Yavin and Ron Dzikowski

54

Artificial biocompatible linkage for long synthetic modified nucleic acid constructs

Afaf El-Sagheer and Tom Brown

55

Characterization of a cold-associated non-coding RNA signature in natural models of hypometabolism

Pier Jr Morin

56

Characterization of extreme non-coding element conservation in mycobacteria

Mmakamohelo Direko and Alan Christoffels

57

Collecting and Indexing experimentally supported microRNA targets in coding and non-coding transcripts

Maria Paraskevopoulou, Ioannis Vlachos, Dimitra Karagkouni, Georgios Georgakilas, Thanasis Vergoulis, Theodore Dalamagas and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

58

Critical factors that determine silencing  efficiency of miRNA-like siRNAs in targeting CAG repeats within translated regions.

Anna Stroynowska-Czerwinska, Agnieszka Fiszer and Wlodziemierz Krzyzosiak

59

Cross-species comparative analysis of Dicer proteins during Sindbis virus infection

Erika Girardi, Mathieu Lefèvre, Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming, Simona Paro, Jean-Luc Imler, Carine Meignin and Sébastien Pfeffer

60

Crosstalk between CTCF and HOXA10 in human breast cancer: possible application of shRNA

Muhammad  Mustafa, Ji-Yeon Lee and Myoung Hee Kim

61

microRNAs regulating CD8 T cell responses to chronic viral infections

Erietta Stelekati, Jennifer Hope, Donald Gracias, Adam Fike, Daniel Beiting, Mohammed-Alkhatim Ali, Peter Katsikis and E. John Wherry

62

Delivery of miR-146a mimics with PepFect6 inhibits inflammatory responses in keratinocytes and skin

Annely Lorents, Egon Urgard Urgard, Mariliis Klaas Klaas, Janeli Viil, Toomas Runnel, Ülo Langel, Viljar Jaks, Margus Pooga and Ana Rebane

63

Differential expression of circulating microRNAs in breast cancer patients and individuals carrying BRCA1 mutation

Dana Jurkovičová, Monika Magyerková, Lucia Copáková, Vladimír Bella, Michal Konečný, Mária Krivjanská, Ľudovít Kulcsár and Miroslav Chovanec

64

Differentially secreted miRNAs in stress induced premature senescence

Lucia Terlecki-Zaniewicz, Ingo Lämmermann, Hanna Dellago and Johannes Grillari

65

Discovery of protein-RNA networks

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia

66

Evaluation of in silico miRNA target prediction algorithms

Dimitra Karagkouni, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Ioannis Vlachos, Georgios Georgakilas and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

67

Exosomal microRNAs as biomarkers of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Jason Choi, Andre Fischer, Farahnaz Sananbenesi and Ivana  Delalle

68

Ezh2 silences tumor suppressor miR-34a expression in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by inducing heterochromatin formation

Yangchao Chen

69

Flexible motif discovery in ranked sequence lists.

Morten Nielsen, Paula Tataru, Tobias Madsen, Asger Hobolth and Jakob Pedersen

70

Heterogeneity of miR-10b expression in circulating tumor cells

Albert Mellick, Christin Gasch, Prue Plummer, Sabine  Riethdorf, Klaus Pantel and David  Wescott

71

Highly sensitive TaqMan®-based microRNA detection for translational research

Shoulian Dong, Linda Wong, Thomas Gulham, Bonnie Moy, Pak Wah Tsang, Chunmei Liu, Cora Woo and Junko Stevens

72

Identification of microRNA transcription start sites by combining high-throughput experimental techniques and Machine Learning

Georgios Georgakilas, Ioannis Vlachos, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Peter Yang, Yuhong Zhang, Aris Economides and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

73

Inhibition of the PI3K/mTOR pathway activates extensive transcriptome changes in Ewing Sarcoma cells

Paola Frisone, Elisa  de Paola, Marco Fidaleo and Maria Paola Paronetto

74

Insights into miRNA functions and regulation by decoding miRNA degradation dynamics

Matteo Marzi, Francesco Ghini, Benedetta Cerruti and Francesco Nicassio

75

Interplay between the dengue non structural proteins and the human RNA silencing machinery

Pavan Kumar  Kakumani, K S Rajgokul, Akhil Banerjea, Guruprasad Medigeshi, Pawan Malhotra, Sunil Mukherjee and Raj Bhatnagar

76

Interstrand cross-link induced miR-139-3p and mi-R199a-3p have opposite roles in hematopoietic cell expansion and leukemic transformation

Stefan  Erkeland

77

lncRNAs regulate the tumorigenesis of breast cancer cells by autophagy

Chang Gong, Xin Jing and Erwei Song

78

Long non-coding RNA expression patterns in Hodgkin lymphoma

Masoumeh Tayari, Klaas Kok, Gertrud Kortman, Jantine Sietzema, Debora de Jong , Martijn Terpstra, Lydia Visser, Arjan Diepstra , Anke van den Berg  and Joost Kluiver

79

Long noncoding RNAs as a novel component of the Myc transcriptional network

Melanie Winkle, Anke van den Berg, Masoumeh Tayari, Jantine Sietzema, Martijn Terpstra, Gertrud Kortman, Debora de Jong, Lydia Visser, Arjan Diepstra, Klaas Kok and Joost Kluiver

80

Maternal LncRNA during Oocyte to Embryo transition

Sravya Ganesh

81

Micro RNA mimics the biological effects of canonical CBF-AML leukemia fusion proteins

Nicoletta Sacchi

82

MicroRNA-mediated control of hippocampal maturation

Laura Guajardo, Rodrigo Aguilar, Fernando Bustos, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Brigitte van Zundert   and Martin Montecino

83

MicroRNAs: posttranscriptional modulators of cellular and extracellular cartilage compartments

Bjoern Bluhm, Julia Etich, Harald Ehlen, Tatjana Holzer, Lena Pitzler, Christian Frie and Bent Brachvogel

84

miR-142-3p is silenced by mutant p53 to induces invasion in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer

Jack Godfrey and Martin Bushell

85

miR-211 functions as a metabolic switch in human melanoma cells

Joseph Mazar, Feng Qi, Bongyong Lee, John Marchica, Subramaniam Govindarajan, John Shelley, Jian-Liang  Li and Ranjan Perera

86

miRNA detection by ligation and amplification of complementary DNA oligos using SplintR® ligase

Larry  McReynolds , Alexander  Zhelkovsky and Jingmin  Jin

87

NEAT1/paraspeckles as novel players in pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Tatyana Shelkovnikova, Michail Kukharsky, Annamaria Quintiero and Vladimir Buchman

88

Neuroblastoma transcriptome sequencing reveals a risk associated long noncoding RNA NBAT-1 that controls tumor progression via regulating cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation

GK Pandey, S Mitra, S Subhash, F Hertwig , M Kanduri , K Mishra , S Fransson , A Ganeshram , T Mondal , S Bandaru , M Östensson , L M Akyürek , J Abrahamsson , S Pfeifer , E Larsson , M Fischer , T Martinsson , F Hedborg , P Kogner  and C Kanduri

89

Oxidized RNA in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Andreas Koenig, Ralph Budd, Andras Perl and Iwona Buskiewicz

90

Recent advances in analysis of DicerO

Eliška Svobodová, Jana Urbanová and Petr Svoboda

92

Regulation of Interleukin-8 expression in Cystic Fibrosis lung epithelial cells by HuR and miR-16

Motohiro Tsuchiya, Sharmistha Bhattacharyya, Parameet Kumar, Shobha Vasudevan, Jennifer Martindale, Myriam Gorospe and Roopa Biswas

93

Revealing microRNA function with DIANA-miRPath v3.0

Ioannis Vlachos, Konstantinos Zagganas, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Georgios Georgakilas, Dimitra Karagkouni, Thanasis Vergoulis, Theodore Dalamagas and Artemis Hatzigeorgiou

94

Roles of miR-338-5p in downregulating Id1 and inhibiting chemoresistance

Liang Han, B Li, SW  Tsao and ALM Cheung

95

Signature of circulating microRNAs in patients with acute heart failure

Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Daniela Schmitter, Eline Vegter, Christopher O'Connor, Daniel Bloomfield, Gadi Cotter, Alexandre Mebazaa, Piotr Ponikowski, Adriaan Voors and Eugene Berezikov

96

Silencing β3 Integrin by Targeted ECO/siRNA Nanoparticles Inhibits EMT and Metastasis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Zheng-Rong Lu, Jenny  Parvani, Maneesh  Gujrati and William  Schiemann

97

Smart way to die: Cross-talk between autophagy and apoptosis of tumor cells by knockdown of antisense long non-coding mitocondrial RNAs (ASncmtRNAs).

Soledad Vidaurre, Karen Villota, Maximiliano Bendek, Veronica Burzio and Luis Burzio

98

Sphingolipids regulate the activation of dendritic cells upon virus infections or TLR stimulation

Young-Jin Seo, Curtis Pritzl and Bumsuk Hahm

99

Targeted labeling of small RNAs for imaging and enrichment

Giedrius Vilkaitis, Alexandra Plotnikova, Aleksandr Osipenko, Viktoras Masevicius and Saulius Klimasauskas

100

Targeting lncRNA HOTAIR with peptide nucleic acids in breast and ovarian cancers

Ali Ozes, Nick Pulliam and Kenneth Nephew

101

Targeting the melanoma-specific long non-coding RNA linc01212 as an effective antimelanoma strategy

Eleonora Leucci, Pieter  Mestdagh, Roberto Vendramin, Arturo Orjalo, Sven  Eyckerman , Kris Gevart, Irwin davidson, Jo Vandesompele and Jean-Christophe  Marine

102

The immature phenotype T-ALL long noncoding RNAome as a prelude to novel therapeutic targeting

Annelynn Wallaert, Kaat Durinck, Filip Matthijssens, Wouter Vanloocke, Pieter-Jan Volders, Inge Van De Walle, Yves Benoit, Bruce Poppe, Pieter Mestdagh, Jo Vandesompele, Tom Taghon, Jean Soulier, Pieter Rondou, Pieter Van Vlierberghe and Frank Speleman

103

The influence of heat stress conditions on small RNAs levels in Drosophila.

Sergey Funikov, Sergey Ryazanskii, David Garbuz, Helen Zelentsova, Michail Evgen’ev, Olga Zatsepina and Alexander Kanapin

104

The Landscape of Driver Long Noncoding RNAs Across 1104 Cancer Genomes

Andrés Lanzós, Roderic Guigó, Nuria López-Bigas and Rory Johnson

105

The Long Noncoding Mitochondrial RNAs Induce Tumor Cell Death Through a MicroRNA-based Pathway

Veronica Burzio, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Macarena Briones, Oliveira-Cruz Luciana, Soledad Vidaurre and Luis Burzio

106

The long noncoding RNA induced by pathogenic infections

Nobuyoshi Akimitsu and Katsutoshi Imamura

107

The RNA-binding protein DDX1 promotes primary microRNA maturation and inhibits ovarian tumor progression

Xinna Zhang and Xiongbin Lu

108

The role of long noncoding RNAs in normal hematopoiesis and malignant transformation

Leah Sabin, Joaquina Delas, Emily Lee, David Kelley, John Rinn and Gregory Hannon

109

The human pericardial fluid is enriched with cardiovascular-expressed microRNAs and exosomes able to elicit therapeutic responses

Cristina Beltrami, Saran Shantikumar, Andrew Shearn, Cha Rajakaruna, Gianni Angelini and Costanza Emanueli

110

The role of microRNAs in the malignant evolution of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (SCC)

Adi Mizrahi, Aviv Barzilai, Iddo  Ben-Dov, Yechezkel  Sidi and Dror Avni

111

Tools4miRs – one place to gather all tools for miRNA analysis

Anna Lukasik, Maciej Wojcikowski and Piotr Zielenkiewicz

112

tRNA-derived fragments target the small ribosomal subunit to fine-tune translation

Jennifer Gebetsberger and Norbert Polacek

113

Y chromosome-linked long non-coding RNAs: Function and involvement in coronary artery disease

Elsa Molina, Guat Chew, Stephen Myers and Fadi Charchar

114

Y-RNA-derived small RNAs as biomarkers and effectors of atherosclerosis

Michele Trabucchi and Emanuela Repetto

115

The Wnt-regulated long non-coding RNA WNTRLINC1 interacts with TCF4/β-catenin to control the expression of the intestinal stem-cell factor ASCL2

Antonis Giakountis, Panagiotis Moulos, Vasiliki Zarkou, Christina Oikonomou, Vaggelis Harokopos, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou, Martin Reczko, Pantelis Hatzis