15:00 Registration starts
18:00 3-course Dinner
19:30 Welcome address
Chair: Anne Ephrussi
Keynote lecture by Christine Mayr (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center): 3' UTR-mediated protein-protein interactions
20:30 Poster and Drinks
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8:45 General introduction
Session 1 Chair: Barbara Conradt
9:00 Anne Ephrussi (EMBL - FOR2333 member): oskar mRNA transport in the Drosophila germline
9:30 Jernej Ule (Francis Crick Institute) - supported by Lexogen: The structure-function relationships of full length mRNAs
10:00 Jeff Chao (FMI Basel): Imaging the life and death of mRNAs in single cells
10:30 Coffee break
Session 2 Chair: Michaela Müller-McNicoll
11:00 Jeff Gerst (Weizmann Institute): mRNA multiplexing: operon-like control of pheromone responsiveness
and mating in yeast
11:30 Heiner Schaal (Uni Düsseldorf): Towards deciphering the splice code
12:00 Anne Spang (Biocenter Basel): Asymmetric Distribution of Hexose Transporter mRNA Provides a
Growth Advantage
12:30 Lunch break
Session 3 Chair: Julian König
14:00 Marina Chekulaeva (MDC Berlin): RNA localisation as a key determinant of neurite-enriched proteome
14:30 Markus Landthaler (MDC Berlin): Exploring mRNA interactome changes
15:00 Barbara Conradt (Munich University): Post-transcriptional control of apoptosis in C. elegans
15:30 Coffee break
Session 4 Chair: Marina Chekulaeva
Talks from DFG-Research Unit FOR2333
16:00 Joyita Mukherjee (Jansen Lab, Tübingen University): mRNA proximity biotinylation - A new tool to identify the
interactome of a localized mRNA
16:20 Silke Jankowski (Feldbrügge lab, Düsseldorf University): The importance of Pab1-interacting proteins during
endosomal mRNP transport in Ustilago maydis
16:40 Rico Schieweck (Kiebler lab, Munich University): The RNA-binding protein Pumilio2 regulates expression of
the GABAA receptor subunit Gabra2 in cortical neurons
17:00 Simone Heber (Niessing lab, Ulm University): The role of Staufen 2 RNA-binding domains 1 and 2 in RNA recognition
17:20 Daniela Lazzaretti (Bono lab, MPI Tübingen): Structural insights into dsRNA target recognition by Staufen
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Posters and Drinks
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8:45 General introduction
Session 5 Chair: Kathi Zarnack
9:00 Keynote lecture by Erin Schuman (MPI Brain Research): Local transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons
10:00 Peter Lukavsky (CEITEC Brno): Staufen1 reads out structure and sequence features in ARF1 SBS for specific
target recognition
10:30 Coffee break
Session 6 Chair: Susanne Kramer
11:00 Simon Bullock (MRC-LMB, Cambridge): In vitro reconstitution of dynein-based mRNA transport
11:30 Sebastian Maurer (CRG, Barcelona) - talk supported by RNA Society:
A reconstituted mammalian mRNA transport system reveals mechanisms controlling cargo quantity and specificity
12:00 Tatjana Tchumatchenko (MPI Brain Research): Computational insights into localization of mRNAs and proteins
12:30 Lunch break
Session 7 Chair: Tatjana Tchumatchenko
14:00 Julian König (IMB Mainz): The role of U2AF65 in splicing relies on regulation by co-factors
14:30 Stavroula Mili (NCI at NIH, Bethesda): Mechanical Regulation of RNA Localization Contributes to Cell Migration
15:00 Michaela Müller-McNicoll (Frankfurt University): Regulation of selective mRNA export by SR proteins
15:30 Coffee break
Chair: Sebastian Maurer
16:00 Yoav Arava (Technion Institute): Hidden roles for famous players: tRNA synthetases act as mRNA binding proteins
16:15 Julien Béthune (Heidelberg University): 4EHP-independent repression of endogenous mRNAs by the membrane-
associated RNA-binding protein GIGYF2
16:30 Andrea Bleckmann (Regensburg University): WOX mRNAs accumulate into specific mRNPs during embryogenesis
and stem cell development
17:30 Departure for Neanderthal Museum (incl. dinner)
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8:45 General introduction
Session 8 Chair: Julien Bethune
9:00 Kathi Zarnack (Buchmann Institute, Frankfurt; FOR2333 member): Transcriptome-wide view of endosomal mRNP transport
9:30 Michael Sattler (TU München & Helmholtz München): Decoding protein-RNA recognition and dynamics using integrative
structural biology
10:00 Mario Hofweber (Munich University): The nuclear import receptor Transportin and arginine methylation suppress phase
transitions of FUS and regulate RNA binding to FUS
10:15 Jan Medenbach (Regensburg University): Drosophila Sister of Sex-lethal antagonizes Sxl-lethal-dependent splicing to
maintain a male-specific gene expression pattern
10:30 Coffee break
Session 9 Chair: Jan Medenbach
11:00 Henning Urlaub (MPI Göttingen): Characterizing protein-RNA interactions by UV-light and chemically induced cross-linking approaches
11:30 Special guest from the Cologne Spring Meeting: Torben Heick Jensen (Aarhus University): Sorting RNA for function or decay
12:00 Closing remarks
FOR2333 Conference
Prof. Dierk Niessing
Ulm University
James Franck Ring N27
Building N27
D-89081 Ulm
Phone: +49 (0) 221 81 - 14720
Email: contact@rna-transport-2018.de