University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2023 Rocky Mountain RNA Symposium

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Friday, April 14, 2023

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Health Sciences Building, Elliman Conference Center

1890 N Revere Ct, Aurora, CO 80045

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Important Dates

• January 16, 2023 Registration Opens

• March 7, 2023 Deadline for Short Talk Oral Presentations (Noon MST)

• March 10, 2023 Short Talk Speakers Notified of Selection

• March 31, 2023 Registration Closes (Noon MST)

• April 14, 2023 RMRS, 8:00 AM – 5:15 PM; Evening Networking/Social, 6 PM onward

Featured Speakers

Agenda

Featured speakers are in bold. Click on talk titles to read the associated abstracts.

Time	Location	Program
8:00 – 9:00 am	Elliman Conference Center (P12-2010, 2011)	Check-in	Coffee and pastries
8:55 – 9:00 am	Elliman Conference Center	Introduction	Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 – 9:45 am	Elliman Conference Center	Sigrid Nachtergaele, PhD Yale University	Gene expression regulation by RNA modifications
9:45 – 10:05 am	Elliman Conference Center	Dylan Parker, PhD CU-Boulder	G3BP1 functions as an RNA condenser by forming RNA-RNA interactions in stress granules
10:05 – 10:30 am	Elliman Conference Center	Naly Torres CSU	Drugging the embryo: How eggshell permeabilization helps us investigate the cytoskeletal impact on mRNA movement
10:30 – 11:00 am	Elliman Conference Center	Break	Coffee
11:00 – 11:20 am	Elliman Conference Center	Chloe Barrington CU-Anschutz	Potent regulation of gene expression by the open reading frame
11:20 – 12:05 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Ariel Bazzini, PhD Stowers Institute	Post-transcriptional gene regulation in vertebrates
12:05 – 1:30 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Derrick Morton, PhD USC	Investigating RNA dysregulation in complex brain disorders
2:15 – 2:35 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Thomas Forman CU-Anschutz	Alternative RNA splicing downstream of PDGFRα signaling in craniofacial development
2:45 – 3:45 pm	Elliman Conference Center	POSTER SESSION	Coffee
3:55 – 4:15 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Madeline Sherlock, PhD CU-Anschutz	Structural basis for translation termination-reinitiation at overlapping open reading frames in viruses
4:15 – 5:00 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Susan (Sichen) Shao, PhD Harvard University	Mechanisms of small molecule translation inhibitors
5:00 – 5:15 pm	Elliman Conference Center	Poster Awards
6:00 pm – ?	Stanley Beer Hall	Networking/Social	Small Bites