Symposium (2019)
RTG Minisymposium in Schloss Rauischholzhausen
November 21/22, 2019The program included scientific talks of 9 invited speakers from academic institutions as well as three speakers from pharma industry. In addition, a poster session was organized, where all PhD students presented the status of their projects.
Invited speakers from pharma industry
Dr. Mustafa Diken
Bringing the message to dendritic cells with messenger RNA
Dr. Dipankar Bhandari
mRNA as medicine of the future – Chances & Challenges
Dr. Julia Ulrich
RNAi: Identification of lethal genes for application in pest control
Invited speakers from academic institutions
Prof. Dr. Sven Diederichs
Non-coding RNAs & RNA-dependent protein complexes in cancer
Dr. Arne Weiberg
Pathogen small RNAs as host immune suppressors
Prof. Dr. Elmar Wahle
Understanding development in biochemical terms: Post-transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila nanos mRNA
Prof. Dr. Niels Gehring
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - insights into mRNA biology from almost failed experiments
Prof. Dr. Gunter Meister
Circular RNAs in colorectal cancer and their potential turnover pathways
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Leidel
tRNA modifications: Tiny changes - big effects
Prof. Dr. Mark Helm
RNA modifications in mRNA and the rest of the epitranscriptome: prediction is easy, validation is hard
Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen
How to make sense out of CLIP-seq data
Dr. Julian König
Genomic views of the RNA world
Posters
Corinna Ulshöfer (PI: Bindereif)
Functional analysis of the RNA-binding protein IMP3
Christina Pfafenrot (PI: Bindereif)
Small circular RNAs with antisense function
Janina Breuer (PI: Rossbach)
Artificial circular RNA sponges as a novel tool in molecular biology and medicine
Marie Mosbach (PI: Bindereif)
Sequence- and size-dependent release of EV-associated RNAs
Francisca Amoah (PI: Sträßer)
Functional characterization of the helicase Sub2
Matthias Miosga (PI: Friedhoff)
Sub2 and Tho1 remodel mRNA before export out of the nucleus
Daniel-Timon Spanka (PI: Klug)
Generation of bacterial sRNAs from sRNA-mRNA cotranscripts
Julian Grützner (PI: Klug)
sRNA-mediated RNA processing regulates bacterial cell division
Robina Scheuer (PI: Evguenieva-Hackenberg)
Posttranscriptional regulation of SAM in the alpha-proteobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti
Hendrik Melior (PI: Evguenieva-Hackenberg)
Posttranscriptional regulation of ribosomal genes by an antibiotic-dependent complex of the attenuator sRNA rnTrpL and the leader peptide peTrpL
Patrick Barth (PI: Goesmann)
Workflow management systems for reproducible data analysis
Dimitar Veselinov Nachev (PI: Niepmann)
tRNA mimicry: RNA signals in viral and Cellular mRNAs that are regulated by glycyl-tRNA synthetase
Timo Schlemmer (PI: Koch/Kogel)
The ESCRT-III pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana regulates HIGS-mediated resistance against Fusarium graminearum
Amri Schlüter (PI: Hartmann)
Global transcriptional control by the noncoding 6S RNAs in the Bacillus subtilis wild type strain
Jana Wiegard (PI: Hartmann)
Mechanistic studies on σA release during transcriptional regulation by 6S-1 RNA in Bacillus subtilis
Alix Hallmann (PI: Boettger)
Function of lncRNAs in the cardiovascular system
Yvonne Eibach (PI: Schneider)
Investigation of RNA and protein composition of RNP granules
Shan Lin (PI: Schneider)
The function of RNA-binding proteins RBPMS and RBPMS2 in the cardiovascular system
Philip Fleischhauer (PI: Kilchert)
Exosome-specific RNA decay in S.pombe - A question of posttranscriptional regulation
Ebru Aydin (PI: Kilchert)
The role of DEAD-box RNA helicase, Dbp2, in transcriptional gene regulation in S. pombe